Sonne Hagal are back with the new album "Ockerwasser"

Sonne Hagal are back, and how! We are honoured to announce Sonne Hagal's new, long-awaited album Ockerwasser - A Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Every indication is already pointing to the fact that Ockerwasser will be considered Sonne Hagal's masterpiece. For six years, over half a decade after releasing their widely acclaimed album Jordansfrost (2008), Sonne Hagal retreated into themselves, concentrating on realising their visions for that which was to become Ockerwasser. While there were compilation appearances, a collaboration with Fire + Ice, and a number of live performances, the majority of their artistic efforts were devoted to Ockerwasser. This new album is the quintessence of what it takes to create good music. Ockerwasser is characterised by daedal music compositions, interwoven melodies, and enchanting harmonies. There is a kind of dance between folk, jazz, and experimental music, creating sonic dreamscapes that beckon spirits; soundscapes that open a wideness within you to let in (and out) your dreams, your fears, and all the spirits that cross the border between consciousness and subconsciousness.

Ockerwasser is founded upon Sonne Hagal's unmistakable acoustic guitar, and is enhanced with violin, trumpet, percussion, bass, and intelligently placed electronics. Rhythms shape-shift between the delicate and doomed, beginning from the first track on the album, "The Shapes of Things to Come," which presents both the Etherworld and the Netherworld, ever reminding us of the ancient, unspoken axiom: "As above, so below". Music, directly from the ether in search for the essence of life. From there you may follow Sonne Hagal into deeper realms of sleep, into subconsciousness, and "Silence" begets the dreamless fields of "Black Spring" and beyond. With each and every listen, we emerge transfigured from Ockerwasser as from a journey. The lyrics of the album are simultaneously prophetic, Hermetic, all-encompassing and yet profoundly personal. With Sonne Hagal, we are invited to exploring our very existence and the nature of human psyche. Ockerwasser transforms universes into dreams, dreams into words, and words into ideas.

For six years Sonne Hagal has worked to create an expression of these ideas, and the results are overwhelming. With Ockerwasser, Sonne Hagal has achieved the finest expression of their artistic voice through their inimitable vocals. It is a collective voice that wrenches beauty and sadness, tragedy and hope, bitterness and strength. This is the voice that is not only a voice but an instrument, a medium, a vehicle. The voice of Sonne Hagal is both singular and collective, and the voices in our head join a choir of the inner self; a choir of the unknown; a choir of lost dreams and new fantasies. On Ockerwasser, Sonne Hagal has engaged guest appearances from an international array of artists, including such artists as Kim Larsen (:Of the Wand and the Moon:), Ericah Hagle (Unto Ashes), Leithana (Ordo Equitum Solis), Bo Rande, Matthias Krause (Vurgart).

Ultimately, Ockerwasser is unmistakably Sonne Hagal, rendering their own unique vision of music which transcends any genre. For years we have been longing for a new full-length album by the band; suffice it to say, Ockerwasser is Sonne Hagal's masterwork that we never allowed ourselves to hope for. The album will be available on CD, a vinyl+CD set, and as a digital download. The CD is housed in a stylish spot-varnished & debossed six-panel Digipak which includes a sixteen-page booklet. The LP+CD version comes in an altered design and contains a printed inner sleeve.