Water plays an important role in many legends and myths. There are mythological water beings and gods, stories of heroes that have something to do with water, and even stories of isles and continents lost below the surface.
The waterway has been the human transport route since the Stone Age, and its importance is invaluable in all cultures and eras, the oldest organized civilizations were river cultures.
Thematically, the texts will describe the globe’s gloom over global warming and lack of environmental protection, the world’s widespread corruption and the difference treatment of the earth’s population.
The significance of the waterway as a traffic artery for us humans is part of the thematic background for Waterways and water as an element is also part of the concept of the album.
Whatever is fluid,
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Before we are born, we are lying in the womb of our mother, floating around in amniotic. Our life starts in fluid. Then we enter the world, the water planet. As newborn we are of eight tenths of water.The globe’s surface is three-fourths of water and water is the most important element of all life on Earth.
Water has been the pathway for human transport and migration since the Stone Age, and its significance is invaluable in all cultures and eras. Water moves across national borders, belives and continents, across time and history. The big oceans both keep us apart and connect us.
Today the sources of clean drinking water are diminishing and half of the world’s population lives in areas which are subject to water shortages.
Environmental consern of climate change and sea level rise, drought and flooding is part of the circumstanses in wich we now find ourself. What forces are sustaining them, and what forces are available to us to change them? Water is life. We are water.
Breaking the silence
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Songwriter of all songs Ragnhild Sarsten except La la la*
All orchestral and backing vocal arrangements composed by Ragnhild Sarsten
All lyrics written by Ragnhild Sarsten except Same Rain**
Recorded in Athletic Sound Studio, except La la la recorded in Urban Sound Studio, and Swamp recorded in Amber Tone Studio, and If I Was A Man recorded in Subsonic Society.
The album is mixed by Gøran Grini in Athletic Sound Studio with Kai Andersen and Dag Erik Johansen as studio technicians
Mastered by Audun Strype at Strype Audio.
The album is produced by Gøran Grini and Ragnhild Sarsten
Watersound collage by Gøran Grini
Watersound recordings by Siri Austeen
Cover concept by Siri Austeen
Graphic design by Siri Austeen and Ulf Carlsson
Album press and print by Coastal Town Records
*La la la by Michael Krohn
**Same Rain lyrics by Thale Husemoen, Siri Austeen and Ragnhild Sarsten
Drums/Percussion: Cato Holmen
Marimba: Cato Holmen
Tuba: Bitten Forsudd
Trombone: Audun N. Øksendal
Horn: Trude Eick
Trumpet: Nils Flognfeldt-Johansen
Bass saxophone: Anders Oftedal
Baritone saxophone: Anders Oftedal
Tenor saxophone: Beate Elstad
Alt saksophone: Beate Elstad
Soprano saxophone: Beate Elstad
Bass clarinet: Erlend Barrat-Due Solum
Clarinet: Erlend Barrat-Due Solum
Contrabassoon: Petter Juel Larsen
Bassoon: Petter Juel Larsen
Electric guitars: Ragnhild Sarsten, Gøran Grini
Backing vocals: Siri Austeen, Ragnhild Sarsten
Lead vocal: Ragnhild Sarsten
Drums: Truls Agnar Skjørholm
Contrabass: Ragnhild Sarsten
Tuba: Bitten Forsudd
Trombone: Audun N. Øksendal
Horn: Trude Eick
Trumpet: Hildegunn Øiseth
Bass saxophone: Anders Oftedal
Baritone saxophone: Anders Oftedal
Tenor saxophone: Beate Elstad
Bass clarinet: Erlend Barrat-Due Solum
Contrabassoon: Petter Juel-Larsen
Electric guitar: Ragnhild Nelvik Bruseth
Piano, vox organ, optigan, samples: Gøran Grini
Backing vocals: Erlend Barrat-Due Solum, Marianne Natvig,
Ragnhild Sarsten, Bitten Forsudd
Lead vocal: Ragnhild Sarsten
Drums/percussion: Cato Holmen
Electric bass: Dag Erik Johansen
Wurlitser piano, piano, samples, mellotron: Gøran Grini
Bass trombone: Nilas Granseth
Trombone: Nilas Granseth
Trumpet: Pål Gunnar Fiksdal
Backing vocals: Ragnhild Sarsten, Siri Austeen, Bitten Forsudd
Lead vocal: Ragnhild Sarsten
Drums: Truls Agnar Skjørholm
Electric bass: Kirsti Nyutstumo
Guitar: Ragnhild Nelvik Bruseth
Electric guitar, B3 organ: Ragnhild Sarsten
Tenor saxophone: Beate Elstad
Backing vocals: Kirsti Nyutstumo, Siri Austeen, Bitten Forsudd
Lead vocals: Ragnhild Sarsten
Drums/Percussion: Cato Holmen
Tuba: Bitten Forsudd
Electric bass: Ragnhild Sarsten
Guitar: Ragnhild Sarsten
Banjo: Freddy Holm
Guitarulele: Cato Holmen
Clarinet: Erlend Barrat-Due Solum
Violin: Line Grenheim
Wurlitzer piano, mellotron, samples, carillon, celesta: Gøran Grini
Backing vocal: Ragnhild Sarsten
Melodic vocals: Marianna Sangita Angeletaki Røe, Ragnhild Sarsten, Siri Austeen, Bitten Forsudd
Lead vocal: Ragnhild Sarsten
Tuba: Bitten Forsudd
Contrabass, oktobass: Ragnhild Sarsten
Bass trombone: Nilas Granseth
Trombone: Nilas Granseth
Saxobone: Erlend Barrat-Due Solum
Trumpet: Pål Gunnar Fiksdal
Bass clarinet: Erlend Barrat-Due Solum
Clarinet: Erlend Barrat-Due Solum
Strings: Sjark Quartet
Marimba, samples, beatboxing, percussion, optigan: Gøran Grini
Backing vocals: Erlend Barrat-Due Solum, Siri Austeen, Bitten Forsudd
Lead vocal: Ragnhild Sarsten
Strings: Sjark Quartet
First violin: Line Grenheim
Marxophone, mellotron, optigan: Gøran Grini
Backing vocals: Siri Austeen, Bitten Forsudd,
Erlend Barrat-Due Solum
Lead vocal: Ragnhild Sarsten
Drums/Percussion: Cato Holmen
Contrabass: Ragnhild Sarsten
Electric bass: Ragnhild Sarsten
Guitar: Ragnhild Sarsten
Electric piano: Gøran Grini
Melotron, optigan, piano: Gøran Grini
Backing vocals: Siri Austeen, Bitten Forsudd, Ragnhild Sarsten
Drums/percussion: Cato Holmen
Tamburin: Marianna Sangita Angeletaki Røe
Clapping: Marianna Sangita Angeletaki Røe, Gøran Grini
Contrabass: Kai Andersen
Tuba: Bitten Forsudd
Bass trombone: Nilas Granseth
Trombone: Nilas Granseth
Trumpet: Pål Gunnar Fiksdal
Clarinet: Erlend Barrat-Due Solum
Lapsteel, banjo: Freddy Holm
Piano: Gøran Grini
B3 organ: Martin
Backing vocals: Guro von Germeten, Marianne Jørgensen, Siri Austeen, Marianna Sangita Angeletaki Røe, Bitten Forsudd, Erlend Barrat-Due Solum
Lead vocal: Ragnhild Sarsten
Photo on top: Guri Dahl
Contrabass: Ragnhild Sarsten
Guitar: Ragnhild Sarsten
Piano: Ragnhild Sarsten
Organ, carillon, windchimes, samples, mellotron: Gøran Grini
Backing vocalist: Ragnhild Sarsten
Vocalist: Ragnhild Sarsten
