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   ||  Artist......: Windfaerer                                         ||
   ||  Album.......: Breaths of Elder Dawns                             ||
   ||  Year........: 2021                                               ||
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   ||  Genre.......: Black Metal                                        ||
   ||  Label.......: Avantgarde Music                                   ||
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   ||  Source......: FLAC/WEB (16bit)                                   ||
   ||  Encoder.....: libFLAC                                            ||
   ||  Bitrate.....: 929 kbps avg.                                      ||
   ||  F.Rate......: 44.1kHz                                            ||
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   ||  Playtime....: 01:03:30 / 458.91MB                                ||
   ||  R.Date......: 2024-10-19                                         ||
   ||  S.Date......: 2021-08-27                                         ||
   ||  Website.....: https://open.qobuz.com/album/jh0owdg5v30wc         ||
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   ||  01. Oxalá                                               8:05     ||
   ||  02. Depletion                                          11:19     ||
   ||  03. A Forbidden Path                                    1:26     ||
   ||  04. Into the Mist                                       7:50     ||
   ||  05. Astral Tears                                        5:47     ||
   ||  06. Starcrossed                                         9:12     ||
   ||  07. Orchard                                             1:21     ||
   ||  08. Longing to Ascend                                  10:10     ||
   ||  09. Entombed in Glacial Waves                           8:20     ||
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   ||  Windfaerer's Breaths of Elder Dawns is the black/folk metal      ||
   ||  quintet's latest and most elaborate output in its more than a    ||
   ||  decade of existence. As the band from New Jersey puts it,        ||
   ||  "Breaths of Elder Dawns explores themes of hope, kinship,        ||
   ||  destruction of the natural world, shattered illusions and        ||
   ||  longing for the numbing comfort of death. It is a journey of     ||
   ||  mourning through the ruins of abandonded dreams and              ||
   ||  aspirations. This record is an homage to a romantaicized past    ||
   ||  as much as it is a rejection of its glorification.               ||
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   ||  As with previous Windfaerer releases this record was a           ||
   ||  collaborative effort. Each member brought their own influences,  ||
   ||  perspectives and compositions and forged them into the spirit    ||
   ||  of the band. Extensive attention to detail was paid to all of    ||
   ||  the sonic elements-from the mic placements to the string         ||
   ||  orchestrations-in an effort to create a towering and expansive   ||
   ||  sound. Sorrow-laden melodies spiral through rugged, mountainous  ||
   ||  song structures in a synthesis of vulnerability and power.       ||
   ||  Breaths of Elder Dawns is a journey through aesthetic            ||
   ||  desolation and saudade. Here, the light of the sun exposes the   ||
   ||  anguished disfigurement of the soul".                            ||
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