Having just wrapped up a tour of North America (with dates across the USA, Canada and Mexico), Swedish progressive rock innovators Pain of Salvation are now announcing their much anticipated acoustic album, "Falling Home", which will released in Europe on November 10th, 2014 via the band's longtime label partner InsideOutMusic.
Here are the exact street days by territory:
GERMANY / AUSTRIA / SWITZERLAND / FINLAND: Friday, November 07, 2014.
UK / BENELUX / FRANCE / GREECE / DENMARK / PORTUGAL / NORWAY / REST OF EUROPE: Monday, November 10, 2014.
ITALY / SPAIN / POLAND: Tuesday, November 11, 2014.
SWEDEN: Wednesday, November 12, 2014.
AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND: Friday, November 14, 2014.
NORTH AMERICA: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
"Falling Home" is a very special album, which contains reimagined versions of favourite catalogue-songs, two cover versions ("Holy Diver" by Dio and "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed) and a brand new song (The title track, "Falling Home").
Next to the Jewel Case CD and the Digital Download formats, "Falling Home" will be also available as limited edition Digipak CD with expanded artwork and two bonustracks ("She Likes To Hide" and "King Of Loss") and also as limited Gatefold LP version on 180gr. vinyl.
Pain of Salvation’s Daniel Gildenlöw has checked in as follows about the clip:
“We had the greatest time shooting this video. We went up north to an old fisher village where Johanna’s family has rented old fisher cabins in the summers since her father was a little child. I have spent time there with her since we met twenty years ago and I love the place. No phones, no television, just the ocean and nature and these old cabins. It seemed the perfect place to shoot the video for 1979. So, we spent a few days there, the entire band with families and Johanna’s sisters and their families, and we just had a wonderful time together. I remember standing in the store googling beer brands to find out which bottles had remained most the same since the 70s, hahaha.
“We had many scripted scenes that we shot but that never ended up in the final video – some nude bathing and Ragnar jumping into the water with his clothes on from a row boat. In the end Stefan Daniels (the director) decided to go with the small gestures and made Sandrian and his kite be the heart of the video, which was a perfect decision.
“My favorite clips are probably the ones at the breakfast table in the cabin and the one in front of the cinema, simply because, to me, they capture the air of the late 70s so perfectly, as I knew them. It almost hurts to watch those clips, and I’m close to tearing up every time. My intellect knows perfectly well that these are new recordings, but my heart connects at a split second and breaks from the loss of an era.”
The pre-order for "Falling Home" starts on October 13th, 2014 here: www.insideoutshop.de
In the meantime, Pain of Salvation will be playing two very special sets on this weekend's 2014 edition of the ProgPower Europe festival at JC Sjiwa in Baarlo, The Netherlands: On Saturday, October 4th, Pain of Salvation will be playing a newly announced, additional 70 minutes set of old material and then on their initial slot of Sunday, October 5th, they will playing a full headline set including a section dedicated to their classic "Remedy Lane" album.
In related news, InsideOutMusic has recently released Pain of Salvation's classic albums "The Perfect Element Part I" from 2000 and "Remedy Lane" from 2002 in the LP format for the very first time ever. The limited coloured vinyl editions were quickly sold out, but you can still obtain the Gatefold 2-LP (Plus bonus CD!) in the classic black vinyl versions here:
www.insideoutshop.de/Artist/Pain_Of_Salvation
Pain of Salvation Line-Up 2014:
Daniel Gildenlöw - lead vocals, acoustic guitars
Ragnar Zolberg - acoustic guitars, vocals
Léo Margarit - drums, vocals
Daniel D2 Karlsson - rhodes, organs, vocals
Gustaf Hielm - acoustic basses, upright bass, vocals
Pain of Salvation online:
www.painofsalvation.com
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