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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Aubades and Nocturnes were originally conceived as a thematic double album. You can get both as a double CD package, featuring the stunning high gloss artwork of Carlos Lerma. Downloads of both albums while you wait for the post.
Includes unlimited streaming of Aubades
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
"Glasfrosch [are] a Melbourne band that have engineered a sound that is epic, artistic, Avant-garde in all its purist sense… Aubades expresses a timeless mysticism, that can only be best described through their genius artistic form." - Ripplehive reviews.
"The music is cinematic in scope and will transport you through space and time… This music commands and deserves your undivided attention.” - PBSFM Connections radio blog.
credits
released October 27, 2013
All music by Glasfrosch.
All lyrics by Justin Ashworth, except Gyokuro, lyrics adapted from The Book Of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura.
Produced and Mixed by Justin Ashworth.
Recorded at RMIT and SashimiFunTimeSoundPalace.
Pianos tracked at The Base.
Mastered at Deluxe by Adam Dempsey.
Artwork by Carlos Lerma
Performed by Glasfrosch.
Justin Ashworth: vocals, guitars, synths, electronics, programming, toy piano, tabla, additional percussion.
Adam Rudegeair: piano, rhodes, synths, melodica.
James Wingard: drums, percussion, electronic triggers.
Thank you to:
Alice Palermo, Jennifer Kingwell, Isabel Vraca, Lerms, Christian Scallan, Sean Holmberg, Chelsea Wilson, RMIT sound cohort 2013, Eben Greaves, Zoe Bastin, Zamara Robison, Gelido, Simon Massey Di Vallazza, Karen Heath, Timothy Phillips and Arcko, Nicholas Rosener, the Wingard family. To everyone who has supported us by coming to our shows, we thank you again, enjoy, and se you soon.
Amphibian contains the following samples:
"Warning Croak of the Florida Gopher Frog (Rana Capito)" by n/a from the recording entitled Sounds of North
American Frogs, SFW45060, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 1998. Used by permission.
"Sounds Issuing From the Oklawaha River East of Orange Springs" by Mixed chorus of frogs from the recording entitled Sounds of North American Frogs, SFW45060, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 1998. Used by permission.
"Chorus of Green Treefrogs (Hyla Cinerea)" by Green Treefrogs (Hyla cinerea) from the recording entitled Sounds of North American Frogs, SFW45060, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 1998. Used by permission.
"Mating Chorus of the Pacific Treefrog (Hyla Regilla)" by n/a from the recording entitled Sounds of North American Frogs, SFW45060, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 1998. Used by permission.
"Winter Mating Chorus of the Pátzcuaro Frog (Rana Dunni)" by n/a from the recording entitled Sounds of North American Frogs, SFW45060, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 1998. Used by permission.
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