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Artist:	WINTER FAMILY
Title:	Red Sugar
Label:	ALT. VINYL (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$27.50
Catalog #:	AV 032LP

High quality 180 gram vinyl deluxe gatefold version, limited to 300 copies. This is the long-awaited second album by Winter Family -- a rare and unique audio worldview expressed by the singular approach of Ruth Rosenthal (voice) and Xavier Klaine (harmonium, organ, etc.). This new album creates glowering and intense atmospherics, part nightmare, part uplifting dreamscape, permeating and building into a compelling whole. A reference point might be some of the output of Constellation records -- and indeed, Godspeed! You Black Emperor's Norsola Johnson plays on this record. However it is doubtful whether any of those artists ever produced anything to match the taut tension of the title track "Red Sugar," a hymn to absence. The ambition of Winter Family is evident on this expansive, orchestral epic dancing in the sun. Crank your speakers, sit back and open your mind. It WILL blow you away.

Artist:	WINTER FAMILY
Title:	Winter Family
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	SR 260CD

Winter Family is a duet of spoken text and music, and this is their debut album, which Sub Rosa has audaciously released as a full-length double CD, packaged in a deluxe fold-out digipack. Born on January 2004 in Jaffa from the meeting of the Israeli artist Ruth Rosenthal and the French musician Xavier Klaine, they recorded their first album in three apartments, a parking lot, a club in Tel-Aviv and a church in Lorraine. Rosenthal writes and performs her texts in English and Hebrew while he composes and plays the piano, harmoniums and pipe organ. They have been playing live since June 2005 in concert rooms, galleries, clubs, churches and theaters in Paris, New York, Milan, Gent, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and more. They have played live on several radios in France and Israel, on the TV channel France5 (in a show together with Arthur H. and Brigitte Fontaine), on HotTv in Israel and composed the theme song for the movie A Corps Defendant by Raphael Etienne. Winter Family have scored dance pieces, and have collaborated with various artists such as Norsola Johnson (Godspeed You! Black Emperor). These songs are singular meditations in sound and text: rich, contemplative, and thrillingly abstract.

Artist:	WINTER FAMILY
Title:	Red Sugar
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SR 315CD

This is the long-awaited second album by Winter Family -- a rare and unique audio worldview expressed by the singular approach of Ruth Rosenthal (voice) and Xavier Klaine (harmonium, organ, etc.). This new album creates glowering and intense atmospherics, part nightmare, part uplifting dreamscape, permeating and building into a compelling whole. A reference point might be some of the output of Constellation records -- and indeed, Godspeed! You Black Emperor's Norsola Johnson plays on this record. However it is doubtful whether any of those artists ever produced anything to match the taut tension of the title track "Red Sugar," a hymn to absence. The ambition of Winter Family is evident on this expansive, orchestral epic dancing in the sun. Crank your speakers, sit back and open your mind. It WILL blow you away.

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