Disguises by Arbirk
Arbirk is set to release their debut album Disguises, which is a big-laden and ambitious concept album that invites the listener on a journey through the darkest and most beautiful parts of the mind.
The musical mastermind behind Arbirk is singer and songwriter Rasmus Arbirk Larsen, who will just turn 30 before the debut album comes out. He was born in Odense, grew up in picturesque North Funen, graduated in Nyborg and is now living in Copenhagen after a stay in a Benedictine monastery in Inverness, Scotland.
The album can be understood and experienced in many ways. Completely aware and intentional, several different stories, metaphors and themes are being waved in and out of each other throughout the whole album.
After falling asleep, our main character moves through a dream and nightmare world, where at first the past is being examined. Initially it is almost therapeutic and constructive, but during the course of the album/night it becomes more and more incoherent and violent. Along the way our main character loses sight of her/himself and can no longer recognize what he/she has become. It all ends on Bridge Queen Louisa where a longing for what might be on the other side of death causes our narrator to throw him/herself into death. Only to wake up from dreaming, now completely aware that something needs to be fixed.
Pressquotes:
”This is music that affects your very heart & soul”
– Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing Radio
”This is really really good. It’s very original and with a very trendy sound”
- Jesper Borup, DR P4Fyn (DK)
”Arbirk's musicianship & vocal arrangements have both portrayed & captured a delicious, dreariness that I think makes this great number/band stand head & shoulders above the vast majority of the competition out there! ... I simply love Arbirk!”
- The Count, WayOut Radio (UK)
Tracklist
| 1. | Safe In My Arms | 2:55 |
| 2. | Beneath | 4:42 |
| 3. | Panther Anthem | 3:23 |
| 4. | Hopeful Fighters | 3:31 |
| 5. | Tonight We Drink | 4:19 |
| 6. | Disguises | 2:38 |
| 7. | Summer Nights | 3:21 |
| 8. | Love Is In Despair | 3:44 |
| 9. | Queen Louisa | 3:56 |
| 10. | Wake Up The Wolf | 4:24 |
Credits
Al songs written by Rasmus Arbirk Larsen
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Valentin Kruse.
Artwork by Daniel Buchwald
License
All rights reserved.
Lead singer Rasmus Arbirk has, after a past in the band Dead Young Oaks, pulled the plug completely from the musicscene and in the cold light of silence, recorded a debut album filled with beautiful, honest and fragile music. The debutalbum is scheduled for release October 7th, 2017.