Horde

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lyrics

The hordes are marching
In blind indifference hoarding

Old truths depart, we all are kings
Gold calf, stone hearts ascending
Save me, we’re drifting
When will we ever learn that money’s only vapor?
The armies are marching
Upon our shores the dying
When will we ever learn that money’s only vapor?
Our thoughts, their blood. We reap, we gorge, they bleed; perversion We are accountable for what we know; we reap, we sow.
These fleeting lucid thoughts of guilt will drown in what we built.

William Booth:
“...there are the daughters of shame; diseased, wronged, ruined. Scrambling down the dark incline to an early grave. There are the children, fighting in the gutter, going hungry to school. Growing up to fill their parents places. Brought it all on themselves, you say? Perhaps so. But that does not excuse our assisting them. You don’t demand a certificate of virtue before you drag some drowning creature out of the water. Nor the assurance in a man of faded grace before you deliver him from the burning building. But what shall we do? Content ourselves by singing a hymn? Offering a prayer? Or giving a little good advice? No! Ten thousand times no! We will forgive them. Feed them! Reclaim them. Employ them! Perhaps we shall fail with many. Quite likely. But our business is to help them all the same.”

We’re all blind children wanting more, wanting all.
We’ve chained our hearts to the cage of our self-confinement.
Gold calf, gold wings
Every coin spent is a vote cast. Pile our hoards and count while our world boils (Save me, we’re drifting)
We all bought golden violins,
yet how they shine not one can sing
Save me, we’re drifting

credits

from Nadir, released March 22, 2019
MONOGRAF IS:
Erik Normann Sannes Aanonsen: Electric and acoustic guitar, vocals, double bass, Ebow, melodica on Nadir, nyckelharpa on Intermission
Sunniva Molvær Ihlhaug: Fiddle, vocals
Hanna Sannes Aanonsen: Bass guitar, backing vocals
Erlend Markussen Kilane: Drums, backing vocals
Thomas Anda: Electric guitar

NADIR ALBUM CREDITS:
All songs performed and arranged by Monograf
Lyrics and music by Erik Normann Sannes Aanonsen
except The Golden Calf: Music by Erik and Thomas
and Ned i vester: Lyrics by Anders Hovden, the melody is traditional, traced back to Eid in Nordfjord, Norway

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS:
Ole Jørgen Reindal: Electric guitar on Horde, Ned i vester, backing vocals on Horde
Jon-Vetle Lunden: Drums on Horde, Ned i vester
Tåran Reindal: Vocals on Grails, The Golden Calf
Ingvill Trydal: Hammond organ on Grails, Nadir, The Golden Calf
Håkon Oftung: Mellotron and Chamberlin on Grails
Tore Hynnekleiv: Backing vocals on Horde

Engineered and produced by Erik Normann Sannes Aanonsen
Mixed and mastered by James William Johnsson Makepeace and Erik N. S. Aanonsen
Intermission mixed by Erik
Horde recorded by James and Erik
Drums on Grails and The Golden Calf recorded by Mads Johansen
Additional tracking by Sebastian Matei Hovind and Hanna Sannes Aanonsen
Recorded in Oslo, May 2014 - April 2018
Released on Throne of Bone Recordings in 2019

Design and layout by Rune Hansen, cover concept by Erik

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Post-rock band that blends in Norwegian folk music, trying to create something unique and free of clichés. From Oslo, Norway.

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