This is a Distro item, originally released on the Eiderdown Records label and made available to UK/Euro customers by Crow Versus Crow. For digital versions please see
eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/search-for-the-vanished-heaven
All digital downloads include an additional bonus 40 minutes of music "Preface & Postcript" from the same "Vanished Heaven" sessions.
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Search For The Vanished Heaven emerged from extensive travels throughout the uncanny landscape of Europe Endless during times when dream & reality often became confused. What remains... prog gnosis, lunar devotionals, ancient-future rituals & thanks & prayers to the resident spirits, who know of no borders save those liminal ones we may sometimes glimpse...
For John & Peter, Rolf-Ulrich & Gille
...& Cosmic Couriers Everywhere...
David Colohan - EMS VCS3 & Synthi A, Farfisa Compact Duo, Moog System 55, Roland Juno-60, Korg MS-20 Mini, Korg MicroKorg, Casio MT-400V, Casio CA-110, Hohner Organetta, modular synthesizer, electric guitar, mandocello, autoharp, piano, strohviol, pump organ, drum, gong, cymbal, bullroarer, voice, lyre, low whistle, santoor, Appalachian & hammered dulcimers, accordian, low whistle, field recordings, no-input four track, tuned percussion & sampled Mellotron, Birotron, EKO ComputeRhythm & Univox Rhythmer
Richard Moult - voice & the turning of eternal wheels
Alison O'Donnell - voice & illumination
Guenter Schlienz - modular synthesizer
Gary Morrison - Korg MS-20, MiniBrute, Moog Little Phatty & modular synthesizer
Dom Cooper - Korg ElecTribe EM-1, Virtual Moog & Make Noise Shared System
Declan Kelly - banjo, harmonium, piano & accordian
Ulrich Rois - Roland VK7 & Korg Monotribe
Matt Leivers - soprano saxophone & field recordings
Jez Creek - EMS VCS3 & Virtual ANS
Barry Synnott - modular synthesizer
John Cavanagh - EMS VCS3
Bart De Paepe - Korg MS-20
Enda Trautt - drums
All words & music by Raising Holy Sparks, except for the spoken sections, which are taken from the writings of Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 - 15 December 1947)
Recorded variously across Europe Endless in Ballymahon, Drumnadubber, Dublin, Galway, Ballinteskin, Stuttgart, Milan, Ravenna, Vienna, Glasgow, Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, Manton Down Long Barrow, Isle of Harris, Stonehenge, The Paps of Jura, Lovosice, Brussels, Parkstone, Rijeka, Copenhagen, Nottingham, Lausanne, Melksham, Watford, Shoreditch, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Bratislava, somewhere in France & somewhere in Romania, Copenhagen, Stamford Hill, Helsinki, Berlin, Gracinica, Sønderho, Budapest, Stekene & Istanbul..
The Search began sometime in 2012 & was completed Under The Light Of A SuperMoon in November 2016, if such a search can ever truly be completed...