White Willow Update 12/29/12

Jacob had a few minutes to provide a bit of an update:

Updates become a bit of a rarity in those times when we are all busy with other projects. I've spent the past year working on many things, most importantly the second album with my "other" project, The Opium Cartel. It will be released sometime in the first half of 2013 if all goes as planned, and it will feature lots of White Willow musicians. Like the first Opium Cartel album it will focus more on shorter-format songs, but still with proggy elements. This time around I'm paying homage to some of the influences of my teen years - Japan, Kate Bush, Thomas Dolby… I'll keep you updated.

Lars and I are also constantly keeping busy with our label - Termo Records. Be sure to check out our latest find, a band called Tusmørke. Their debut album might appeal to fans of very early White Willow, and features lots of keyboards from Lars.

Talking of Lars, I know that he is also working on material for a new Wobbler album.

Mattias has had an eventful year as well, first releasing Änglagård's wildly anticipated comeback album Viljans Öga, and then experiencing a split with the band. Sad news for both & Änglagård and Mattias, but on the other hand it means more time to prog out with White Willow!

And finally Ellen has been hugely successful with her band Pixel's debut album, collecting prizes and garnering rave reviews everywhere. Do check out their album, which was released on Cuneiform.

Back to White Willow: We are prepping re-issues, as promised, to be released throughout 2013.

And best of all: We will start work on a new White Willow album shortly!

White Willow Update 05/20/12

Been a while since the last update - we've kept busy. First of all, thanks to all our fans who made "Terminal Twilight" such a success! It's sold much better than we had even dared to hope, and the critical reception has been overwhelming. The album ended up on a lot of "Best of 2011" lists, and we even won a Proggie Award for Best Production of 2011. It's been a great experience for us - coming back after such a long time and being so warmly received by you.

The next project for us now is re-issuing the back catalogue of the band. The older albums have been OOP for a long time, but now Termo Records is re-mastering and re-issuing the lot. We start with a 2CD edition of "Ignis Fatuus" with lots of bonus material, and continue with "Ex Tenebris" and so on. All the albums will have extra goodies in the form of unreleased studio or live material. Watch this space for release dates and more info.

Some WW related news: Ellen Andrea Wang, our bass player, has just released the debut album of her own band, Pixel, on Cuneiform Records. It's an amazing mixture of acoustic jazz, indie and prog. Check it out here.

Our drummer, Mattias Olsson, plays with his original band Änglagård on their upcoming, 3rd album - quite a comeback! More info here.

White Willow Unveils New Music Video..

We are very proud to present our new video to the song "Kansas Regrets" from the new album. The video was directed and shot by the very talented Dion Johnson, who recently also shot a video for Slow Electric (Peter Chilvers, Tony Levin, Tim Bowness). "Kansas Regrets" was co-written with Tim Bowness (No-Man), who also sings the song. The video was shot on Tim's home turf, Norwich in England. Enjoy! (Note that the video is in HD, so use the 1080p HD setting on Youtube for full effect.)

"Terminal Twilight" on Vinyl..

Our wonderful friends over at Pancromatic Records are releasing a limited vinyl edition of "Terminal Twilight". Gatefold cover, 180 gr. vinyl, the whole thing looks absolutely terrific, and sounds even better! More info and per-order here. Release date is November 11th.

It will also be available from Termo Records' webstore around the date of release.

"Terminal Twilight" is OUT...

The New Album