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| Format: | CD | | Released: | February 2006 | Label: | Panoptikon | Catalogue: | OPTIK 06 |
| Lyrics: | Martin Hall | | Music: | Martin Hall | | Producer: | Martin Hall, Johnny Stage, Efterklang | | Cover: | Kenneth Schultz | | Photo: | hansen-hansen.com |
| Musicians: | Biljana Stojkoska: vocals
Dan Hemmer: hammond
Efterklang: instruments
Hélianne Blais: violin
Ida Bach Jensen: string bass
Johnny Stage: bass, guitar, backing vocals, arp, farfisa, sitar
Kenny Andy: drums
Konsort: choir
Martin Hall: vocals, drums, piano, guitar, tapes, percussion, electronics
Ole Hansen: flugelhorn
The Vista Dome Ensemble: orchestra
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Recorded and mixed in the summer and autumn of 2005 by Martin Hall, Johnny Stage and Efterklang at The Music Room, The Box, Efterklang’s studio and various mobile locations. Biljana Stojkoskas vocals were recorded at Grizzly Bear’s studio, New York City. All tracks produced by Martin Hall except "Torn Envelope" which was produced by Johnny Stage and "Tu Es Mon Image" played, arranged and produced by Efterklang.
DVD and visuals produced by hansen hansen.com. |
| Notes: | On Monday the 13th of February Martin Hall released his first solo-album as a singer in seven years, the CD 'Facsimile'. Apart from ten new tracks, the record was released with a bonus-DVD, a visual setting for the album as a whole, produced by the Danish photographer and design analyst hansen-hansen.com.
Having avoided the role as singer and autobiographical songwriter for years, Hall thereby returned to his starting point as an artist with a collection of songs that represent some of his most personal ever. The impressively orchestrated album is built up around a set of fairly simple ballads, tracks with an emotional span that runs from the subdued and quiet to the dramatic and grand.
Among the guests on the album you will find internationally acclaimed Danish act Efterklang (signed to the British Leaf-label) who has produced the last song on the album, ”Tu Es Mon Image” (a track on which Biljana Stojkoska from another Danish group, Steve Albini-produced Amber, also appears). The orchestral sequences are recorded with The Vista Dome Ensemble, which MH has worked with on several occasions (as an example on his critically acclaimed instrumental score to the 'Camille'-album from 2002).
'Facsimile' was met with a bouquet of overwhelmingly positive reviews and announced as Hall’s best ever by several leading music journalists. |
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