“Ignis Fatuus” is the classic debut album from Norwegian Prog legends White Willow. Originally released in the Spring of 1995, the album took the global Progressive Rock scene by storm. Fan letters started coming in from all over the world, and wonderful reviews from American and European music magazines kept flowing out of their fax machine. 5000 copies were quickly sold and soon the band was on a plane to California to perform at the 1995 Los Angeles Progfest, along with acts like Spock’s Beard, Ars Nova and Landberk.
The songs on the album range from almost pure pastoral Folk-Rock, as on “Snowfall” and “Till He Arrives,” via out-and-out Prog Rock, as on “John Dee’s Lament” and “Cryptomenysis” (which featured a guest appearance from Ved Buens Ende’s Carl Michael Eide) to unusual experiments like the renaissance-inspired hymn “Song,” based on Christina Rossetti’s poem. The band didn’t at the time consider themselves a Prog Rock band, more a Folk Rock band that dabbled in Symphonic arrangements. Nevertheless, the album has become a classic for Prog connoisseurs.
This re-release was meticulously remastered by the band’s own Jacob Holm-Lupo, and is presented with the classic original cover art, for the first time on vinyl. This is the first in a series of six White Willow re-releases on Karisma Records.
Pre-Order the album on Bandcamp: https://whitewillow.bandcamp.com/album/ignis-fatuus-remastered
SELLING POINTS:
- Re-release of the classic, long out-of-print 1st White Willow album
- For fans of Anekdoten, Wobbler, Landberk & Scandinavian Prog in general
- Limited 2xLP version on transparent orange & blue vinyl
Tracklist:
1. Snowfall
2. Lord of Night
3. Song
4. Ingenting
5. The Withering of the Boughs
6. Lines on an Autumnal Evening
7. Now in these Fairy Lands
8. Piletreet
9. Till He Arrives
10. Cryptomenysis
11. Sighs
12. John Dee’s Lament
