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White
Willow (NORWAY)
Summers
End is proud to present Norwegian band White Willow, making their first
ever live appearance in the UK.
Trude
Eidtang - vocals
Jacob Holm Lupo - guitar
Lars Fredrik Froislie - keyboards
Ketil Vestrum Einarsen - flute
Marthe Berger Walthinsen - Bass
Aage Moltke Schou – drums
Undeniably Progressive Rock, but with a faintly gothic and rather beautiful
take on the genre, their first album, Ignis Fatuus was released in 1995.
Initially a group of friends gathered together trying to find a sound
that suited them, it is nonetheless an excellent combination of styles
– from folk / rock, to classical pastiches and full-on prog, using
mainly female vocalists. An invitation to Progfest in California necessitated
a live band, but after the festival the band split and the next, album,
Ex Tenebris, was essentially a somewhat Gothic solo album by guitarist
Jacob Holm Lupo. It did, however, introduce singer Sylvia Ericssen.
Jacob and Sylvia gathered a full band around them for 2000s Sacrament
probably the bands most accessible, symphonic album, and this was the
line up that played the Nearfest festival in Bethlehem, Pennsylvannia,
USA in 2001. Further line-up changes, including the recruitment of virtuoso
keyboardist Lars Fredrik Froislie, led to 2004s "Storm Season"
an intense yet still-accessible slice of metal-tinged progressive rock,
which featured their best material to date. The band will release album
number 5 “Signal to Noise” in August 2006, their first with
superb new singer Trude Eidtang. The band may not be prolific, but they
are always worth the wait.
Website: http://www.whitewillow.org
Key album: Sacrament (2000)
Buy Cds and listen to soundclips HERE
