Johan G Winther - The Rupturing Sowle

Click the image to listen on Bandcamp

1. Outward Bound

2. As Above So Below

3. The Chastening Star

4. The Drifting Boat Drunk On Blood

5. Black Clouds

6. The Rupturing Sowle

7. Coiling Smoke

8. Blacken The World

9. Evighetstonen

10. Acquiescence

11. Whiten Rhe World

12. Tills Vi Inte Räds Förfärliga Tankar Längre

13. No Horizon

"„I started to dream parts of the same dream over and over, bits and pieces slowly coming together into a narrative of sorts. In the summer of 2012, we retreated to our cabin in the middle of Sweden and I started to record pieces to fit the narrative in my head. One of the core concepts were the inborn duality of the human soul, and I tried to represent this on the album by presenting as many ideas and musical parts as pairs, with a light and a dark side to try to create a persistent sense of tension throughout. Beautiful sounds mixed with ugly sounds, sadness mixed with joy, acoustic sounds and electronic sounds.“

This emotional duality and the diversity of sounds and moods that come with it are what define The Rupturing Sowle – just like in every good dish, where contrasting directions of flavour contradict and compliment one another in equal measure: the salty and the sweet the bitter and the spicy."