Without Isgaard

• 1 Prologue 03:25
• 2 No Man's Land 05:45
• 3 Shine On 04:51
• 4 You Didn't Fall 04:31
• 5 Silent Stranger 04:21
• 6 Tikdabra 05:35
• 7 Silva 04:29
• 8 Fly Away 05:29
• 9 Into The Great Wide Open 04:09
• 10 Whiteout Part 1 The Book 04:04
• 11 Whiteout Part 2 Shifting World 04:28
• 12 Whiteout Part 3 Whiteout 05:01
• 13 Shine On (Reprise) 01:15
• Total Runtime 57:23

Info for Without

Whiteout. When sky and snow-covered land merge at the horizon and you can‘t see anymore where the land ends and the sky begins. Or you are lost in a dense fog that removes all contours and hides all shapes around.

This describes the feelings of Isgaard over the past two and a half years since her last album ”NAKED“, when she faced the chaos of our present time.Then what makes more sense for a singer than to translate these feelings into music?

Together with her life-partner, producer and co-musician Jens Lueck, Isgaard has written 13 pieces of music that never compromise the compositions or the lyrics.

Somewhere between Art-Pop-elements, folk-inspired acoustic parts, Rock-fragments and string-orchestra based sections, you will find Isgaard‘ s versatile voice flying through the songs and merging all to a style of her own. Sometimes fragile and tender, then powerful, she covers a wide range of sounds and in the song ”Tikdabra“ (inspired by Alberto Vázquez Figueroa‘s novel ”Tuareg“) she dives into the ethno-segment.

The arrangement of the pieces give a wide richness of detail and an invitation to careful listening. Among several other studio-musicians producer Jens Lueck plays drums and keyboards and sings backing vocals and in order to search for a warm sound, many real strings have been recorded.

The center of the album is the three-part title-track „Whiteout“ (13min34), that tells the story of a young woman who starts reading a book that seems to describe her present life. As she reads on, reality fades out and the things that she was thinking of as an integral part of her life then disappear. In a wider sense the WHITEOUT in a human life.

”You didn‘t fall“ is a bow to women like the Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, who stand up for the rights and education of girls in fundamentalist-islamic countries despite all threats and reprisals.

Another important role in the lyrics is the influence of art in our lives and the nature as a place of refuge and a haven of peace in a world that is at a crossroads.

Isgaard, lead vocals, backing vocals
Jens Lueck, drums, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals
Ingo Salzmann, guitar
Katja Flintsch, violin, viola
Annika Stolze, cello
Dieter Koch, acoustic-Guitar
Volker Kuinke, recorder
Joachim Schlüter, slide-Guitar

Produced by Jens Lueck

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Booklet for Without