Empty Castles ('No Widows' Refracted)

~ Release by The Antlers & Brent Arnold (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

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13 December 2012
Happy Holidays and Potential Apocalypse!

We wanted to thank all of you for your support this year, for coming to our shows, buying and/or listening to our records, and the billion other ways you’ve all been a part of this.

So our gift to you is a re-imagination of “No Widows” from last year’s Burst Apart, by our friend Brent Arnold. Here’s how Brent describes this beautiful piece:

“I knew I wanted to work with this track as soon as I heard it. The lyrics really haunted me. I recorded many of the cellos in a library in a castle in Burgundy… no joke! I had in mind a kind of rolling, pulsing feeling, rising and falling. Everything I made is of course quite different than the original, except for the big harmonies in the chorus– for that part, I tried to tease out each layer of vocals and play them exactly on the cello, which was tricky as they’re very intertwined. But I wanted to be more literal there, because there’s something very special about the way those lines work together.”

To hear more of Brent’s work, see brentarnoldmusic.com

See you in 2013.

Love always and infinite gratitude,

The Antlers

Annotation last modified on 2012-12-20 03:05 UTC.

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1Empty Castles ('No Widows' Refracted)
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