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Shaman of the snow, previously unreleased video

22/12/2024

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​Unofficial rejected video for the song "Shaman of the snow". 

The first incarnation of this song was written in the early 1980's, but was filed away for a couple of decades and rewritten in the early 2000's. The recorded version is version #4. something like that. 

The origins of this were in part inspired by the Jethro Tull Christmas EP with "Solstice Bells" as well as other wonderful Christmas singles of the 1970's. A conversation with fellow sojourner Martin Newell about the origins of Christmas and the throwaway line "The Christians stole our festival" made it into the original lyric. 

The song was an attempt to bring to the table that the pagan thanksgiving festival had been hijacked by Christians and subsequently hijacked by consumerism, commerce and captitalist to intoxicate us with a short burst of debauchery and an aftermath of debt. 

I don't remember if we got around to doing anything with it in the 1980's, I suspect we struggled to hammer it into our post punk world and abandoned the thing. 

It resurfaced as an idea as Pete and I were working on the Ermin Grud album in the early 1990's and then again around 2011, I rewrote the lyrics and another attempt to bring it to the table was abandoned. 

The lyrics suffered another brutal edit as we finally got around to recording the definitive version of the song in 2018 as our musical misadventures morphed into what was to become Two Headed Emperor. 

Pete handled the lead vocals on this song with Georgia making her first appearance on the chorus adding an ethereal quality to the track. Pete's softer, more melodic, pastoral voice suited the track better than my rather unhinged, gritty ramblings.  

BL, 22/12/2024
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almanac 33 rpm/years after

15/12/2024

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ALESSANDRO MONTI :: almanac 33 rpm/years after [snippets from the forthcoming album]

CROWDFUNDING at:
https://www.paypal.com/pool/9a9zdiFMj1
Exp. Date: December 31 2024
Approx album release date: early 2025
All names of the contributors will appear on the inner sleeve!

DESCRIPTION: With approx 80.000 plays/views through the years "The Wind Collector" is a well kept secret of 90s ambient music; the original Producer reimagines the work after 33 years through a different "unfolk" perspective.

The songs Almanac, Stella Maris, Blue Weaver, Snake Theory, Swallows' Tempest & Random Security were originally released on "The Wind Collector" (Divergo LP 1991, produced by Alessandro Monti) and "The Wind Collector/As Witness Our Hands" (Diplodisc, Explora, Bear On The Moon CD 2015, remaster produced by Alessandro Monti, Alessandro Pizzin & Gigi Masin).

All music Copyright: Alessandro Monti, Alessandro Pizzin, Gigi Masin  © SIAE/PRS.

"almanac 33 rpm/years after" was arranged, performed & produced by ALESSANDRO MONTI in Summer 2024.
Engineering: Gianni Visnadi, Elisabetta Montino, Tullio Tombolani, Alessandro Monti.
Mastering: Wouter Brandenburg at Brandenburg Mastering, Amsterdam.
Artwork concept by Alessandro Monti, original illustration by Elisabetta Montino, assistance & coloring: Cerruti Comunicazione.
Special thanks to Vannuccio Zanella at MP& Records for his invaluable help in the making of this album & Renato Soave at CopyCartotecnica, Mestre.

MORE NOTES & INFO at:
​https://unfolkam.wordpress.com/re-wind-collector/
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