The Moon is a dry bone (Asian Extended Edition)

by Corde Oblique

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I'm such a happy bird with acts like these, who play the whole kaleidoscescapistic (I'm sure this word exists) organ of different, but still unique intristic, feverish multicolored... (you get me, right?) Corde Oblique's "The Moon is a dry bone" (what a hypnotic track!) gets my royal gold-stamp "with love made!"
Highly recommended by fans of Madredeus & Dancing Sun (sorry for that!)
Time for me to get "The Stones of Naples"....
or that girl in the Corde Oblique-shirt.

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1.	Almost blue 03:01		buy track
2.	La Strada 04:24		buy track
3.	The moon is a dry bone 03:04		buy track
4.	Le grandi anime 03:48		buy track
5.	Le torri di Maddaloni 04:12		buy track
6.	Il figlio dei Vergini 04:30		buy track
7.	La Casa del Ponte 05:39		buy track
8.	Temporary Peace 04:58		buy track
9.	Il terzo suono 02:14		buy track
10.	Herculaneum 03:18		buy track
11.	Almost Blue part 2 03:41		buy track
12.	La casa del Ponte (Sterling Mastering) 05:38		buy track
13.	The moon is a gaunt bone 03:02	lyrics	buy track
far beyond you far beyond me, far from our blood, you can never identify innocence, you can never identify In the pit of my stomach a chill, an icy blast All sound isolates Fear is the empty howling of All the moon is a dry bone! the stars burn further and further away from us
14.	La strada (demo version) 05:03		buy track

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This is the Asian extended edition of the album "The Moon is a dry bone" it includes three bonus tracks:
1- a Mastering edit version of "La casa del Ponte"
2- The original version of the title track, called the moon is a gaunt bone, we changed our mind during the mixing, went back to recordings and completel modified the part in the middle
3- a Demo version of "La strada" with a different arrangement both for voice and guitar

Corde Oblique – “The moon is a dry bone” (out for dying art productions - China . June 6/2020)
“The moon is a dry bone” is the last tile in the poetic mosaic of Corde Oblique. The band launches a genre that defines "FolkGaze", or a blending between Neofolk and Shoegaze. The usual in fact, folk sounds intertwine with something new: those who know the band will recognize their well-defined identity, this time shaken up with a more extreme and brave approach. The harshness of times contained within each song is showcased with courage but sweetened by a light shining from childhood, streaming from the regions where wonder can still be inspiration and action. The seventh studio album by Corde Oblique includes 11 unreleased songs written and produced by the mastermind Riccardo Prencipe, and a cover from Anathema. “The moon is a dry bone” presents an artist who is still able to speak to the arid yet receptive and promising planets.
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released March 27, 2020

Tracklist

1- Almost Blue
2- La Strada
3- The moon is a dry bone
4- Le grandi anime
5- Le Torri di Maddaloni
6- Il figlio dei Vergini
7- La casa del Ponte
8- Temporary peace
9- Il terzo suono
10- Herculaneum
11- Almost Blue II
12- La casa del ponte (Sterling Mastering) (Bonus Track)
13 - The Moon is a Gaunt bone
14 - La Strada (Demo version)

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released June 5, 2020

Band Line up:

Riccardo Prencipe (classic acoustic and electric guitars, ebow)
Rita Saviano (vocals on tracks 3, 8, 13, back vocals on tracks 2, 6, 7, 12)
Edo Notarloberti (violin)
Umberto Lepore (bass)
Alessio Sica (drums)
Luigi Rubino (piano on track 8)
Michele Maione (frame drums, percussions)
Carmine Ioanna (accordion)

Caterina Pontrandolfo (vocals on tracks 4, 6, 10, back vocals on track 7)
Guest singer in all of Corde Oblique’s albums. She is an artist from Basilicata and performs in many artistic areas such as theatre, music, cinema and literature. She is a singer/performer, actress, playwright, researcher and director. She develops projects which link anthropology, communities, theatre, singing and landscapes with a sensitivity towards women’s memories and traditional songs from Basilicata. She collaborates with the writer Franco Arminio and the musician Ambrogio Sparagna.

Denitza Seraphim (vocals on track 5)
Denitza is a talented Bulgarian vocalist, lead singer of the internationally recognised folk-ethnic band Irfan from 2003 to 2017. She sings in their albums - "Irfan", "Seraphim", "Eternal Return". She is the first vocalist of the Robev choir choral chapella conducted by Nelly Trosheva, they perform Orthodox chants.

Maddalena Crippa (spoken voice on track 7)
Is among the most esteemed actresses in Italian theatre. She had her debut at only 17 years of age in the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in Goldoni’s “Campiello” directed by Giorgio Strehler. She works with some of the most important Italian and international directors: Squarzina, Ronconi, Castri, Vitez, Stein and Carsen. She is the narrating voice in J. Benda’s “Medea”, directed by both Pietro Bellugi and Mario Brunello, and in Pasolini’s “Requiem” (director: R. De Simone) at the San Carlo Theatre of Napoli.

Sergio Panarella (vocals on track 6)
Lead singer of Ashram, a neoclassical band which has released three albums and gained enormous success in China and Portugal.

Andrea Chimenti (vocals on track 2, 13)
From 1983 to 1989 Andrea Chimenti is the singer of Moda, one of the first Italian rock bands. In 1990 he began his solo career. He has collaborated with Mick Ronson (guitarist and producer for David Bowie, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and many more) and David Sylvian.

Miro Sassolini (vocals on track 9)
The defining voice of the Italian “new wave” and lead singer of the Florence-based rock band Diaframma from 1983 to 1989; founder of the “Van Der Bosch” project (1991 – 1996); melodic musician and voice researcher; multimedia experimenter and figurative artist. In 2011 he founded the project “S.M.S.” with Cristiano Santini and Monica Matticoli.

All music & Lyrics written by Riccardo Prencipe (S.I.A.E.)
“Temporary peace” originally written by Daniel Cavanagh
Music arrangement by Corde Oblique
Mixed and recorded by Massimo Aluzzi at the Splash recording Studio (Naples)
Mastering by Geoff Pesche (Abbey Road Studio – London)

Cover and Backcover by Hardijanto Budiman (Visual artist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He won lot of prestigious awards worldwide for his works)

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Corde Oblique Italy

The artistic project directed by M.tro Riccardo Prencipe, active since 2005, after 7 albums starts in change skin and proposes "FolkGaze" sound, a cross between Folk and Shoegaze. The original pieces proposed by the ensemble speak of the history of Italian art and of a "wild and talented" South.
Since 2005 the band released seven full-lenght albums with different labels ... more

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