Acclaimed Australian singer, songwriter and The Go-Betweens founder Robert Forster announces his eighth solo album: "The Candle And The Flame" will be released on 3 February 2023 by Tapete Records.
"The Candle And The Flame" contains nine songs written by Forster. The album was produced by Forster, his wife Karin Bäumler and Louis Forster (The Goon Sax) and mixed by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey). Also on board are former Go-Betweens and Warm Nights bassist Adele Pickvance as well as Scott Bromiley and Luke McDonald (The John Steele Singers), who also …
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Acclaimed Australian singer, songwriter and The Go-Betweens founder Robert Forster announces his eighth solo album: "The Candle And The Flame" will be released on 3 February 2023 by Tapete Records.
"The Candle And The Flame" contains nine songs written by Forster. The album was produced by Forster, his wife Karin Bäumler and Louis Forster (The Goon Sax) and mixed by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey). Also on board are former Go-Betweens and Warm Nights bassist Adele Pickvance as well as Scott Bromiley and Luke McDonald (The John Steele Singers), who also played on Forster's albums "Inferno" and "Songs To Play". Great, deeply inspired music sometimes emerges quite unexpectedly - in really difficult times, but sometimes also in times of greatest contentment.
In 2021, Robert Forster had finished a series of songs he had written over the previous three years. These were to form the basis of his new album. The songs were strong and emotional as if cast from one mould. Even the author was surprised: they offered a new perspective, were more personal and told of the people closest to him. There was another song fragment - just music and melody, still without lyrics. Since Robert was working on his first novel at the same time, there was no hurry. The new songs could also wait a while. But life suddenly presented him with completely new challenges: In July 2021, Robert's wife Karin Bäumler, with whom he also makes music, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. And so hospital, tests and chemotherapy were first on the agenda. An intense time full of fear and hope. As so often in their 32-year relationship, music was their rock, their refuge. "The recording sessions for the album took place sporadically over six months. Sometimes only one or two days a month. That was all Karin's strength and condition allowed. So we had to record "live", capture magical moments and go for "feeling". And that became the sound of the album," says Robert.
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