Terminal Twilight (Remaster) White Willow

• 1 Hawks Circle the Mountain 07:09
• 2 Snowswept 04:11
• 3 Kansas Regrets 04:39
• 4 Red Leaves 08:40
• 5 Floor 67 09:54
• 6 Natasha of the Burning Woods 06:27
• 7 Searise 13:08
• 8 A Rumour of Twilight 02:35
• Total Runtime 56:43

Info for Terminal Twilight (Remaster)

Norway's godfathers of modern prog, White Willow, return after a lengthy hiatus with their most adventurous album to date. With a killer line-up including Änglagård drummer Mattias Olsson as well as Willow stalwarts Jacob Holm-Lupo (The Opium Cartel), Lars Fredrik Frøislie (Wobbler), Ketil Einarsen (Jaga Jazzist, Motorpsycho), singer Sylvia Skjellestad (nee Erichsen) and newcomer Ellen Andrea Wang on bass guitar, the band deliver their best performance to date.

Combining the best of the band's eclectic history, Terminal Twilight fuses the symphonic rock of Sacrament, the dark prog of Storm Season and the pastoral folk of their earliest albums - and adds a slightly more experimental and playful twist to the whole mix. Fans of atmospheric, gothic-tinged Nordic prog will delight both in the washes of analog keys and the wistful, folk-inflected melodies.

The album also features distinguished guest appearances from No-Man's Tim Bowness, Gösta Berlings Saga's David Lundberg and The Nerve Institute's Michael S. Judge.

Sylvia Skjellestad, vocals
Jacob Holm-Lupo, electric & acoustic guitars, vocals, Fender Rhodes, glockenspiel, Wurlitzer, CS 80V synth, piano
Lars Fredrik Frøislie, Hohner D6 Clavinet, Elkapiano 88, Fender Rhodes, glockenspiel, Mellotron, Chamberlin M1, Hammond C3, Mini-Moog D, Solina String Ensemble, Wurlitzer, piano, Marxophone, synthesizers
Ellen Andrea Wang, e-bass, double bass
Mattias Olsson, drums, percussion, Fx, electronics, Mellotron, Optigan & Orchestron organs, Persephone synthesizer
Ketil Einarsen, flute
Additional musicians:
Tim Bowness, vocals (track 3)
David Lundberg, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer (track 2, 3)
Michael S. Judge, guitar solo (track 1)

Digitally remastered

White Willow
are the leading Norwegian band of the 1990's Prog revival and were begun in 1992 by guitarist Jacob Holm-Lupo. The band was based around a nucleus of Holm-Lupo (guitars), Jan Tariq Rahman (keyboards, bass, guitars, wind instruments) , Audun Kjus (wind instruments, vocals), Sara Trondal (vocals), Eldrid Johansen (vocals), Alexander Engebretsen (5 string bass), Tirill MOHN (violin, Classical guitar) and an unnamed drummer as well as a collection of guest musicians. Over a period of 2 years from December '92 to September '94 the band recorded a number of songs that would form their fist album, Ignis Fatuus, released in '95 by The Lasers Edge, the start of a long partnership with the American label, and signalling them as one of the leading groups in the revival of Progressive Rock along with bands like ANGLAGARD and ANEKDOTEN. The sound of this first album is largely characterised by mid paced, acoustic guitar and mellotron led Folk Prog, bringing to mind GRYPHON but with a touch of the more acoustic nature of early GENESIS and KING CRIMSON's first line-up. However, the two "epic" songs that close out the album showed a full electric band with a much more staunchly Symphonic approach. If there is two words than can be used to describe the bands music though, its melancholic and beautiful, two characteristics that would remain with the band and become the signature of their sound.

Because of the extended nature of the recording time for the album Ignis Fatuus and with the band members having very informal roles, it has a feeling of a solo project at times but also of a young band trying to find their sound. In the following three years the band was reformed around the core of Jacob Holm-Lupo and Jan Tariq Rahman, with Frode Lia joining on bass and Mattias Olsson (ANGLAGARD) on drums. Sylvia Erichsen would join as vocalist and for many fans would become the voice of WHITE WILLOW for years to come. The second album Ex Tenebris would be released in '98 and featured a changed sound from the début. The mid paced, melancholic atmosphere would remain, but it featured a much more sparse, striped-down sound with a slightly more Symphonic Rock touch added to the folk. Following this release the band would also see more success on tour, attracting wide acclaim for their performances at a wide variety of Prog festivals across Europe. Following the touring, many members once again left the band with only Holm-Lupo and Erichsen remaining. The new line-up consisted of Brynjar Dambo (keyboards, glockenspiel), Aage Moltke Schou (drums), Johannes Sæbøe (bass) and Ketil Vestrum Einarsen (wind instruments)( JAGGA JAZZIST, MOTORPSYCHO) and it would be this band that recorded the third album, Sacrament, in 2000. The sound of the band continued to evolve here with them now being a fully Symphonic Prog band with only a few Folk influences left and a much heavier reliance on the electric guitar than previously, but still with large helpings of acoustic playing. This line-up would also gain a deal of success on the live circuit, particularly at NEARFest in 2001 when they had to play a set with borrowed equipment following an airline mishap.

This album contains no booklet.