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01. Robert Forster - She's A Fighter
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02. Robert Forster - Tender Years
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03. Robert Forster - It's Only Poison
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04. Robert Forster - The Roads
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05. Robert Forster - I Don't Do Drugs I Do Time
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06. Robert Forster - Always
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07. Robert Forster - There's A Reason To Live
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08. Robert Forster - Go Free
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09. Robert Forster - When I Was A Young Man
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ARTIST
FORSTER, ROBERT
TITLE
The Candle And The Flame
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TAPETE RECORDS
CATALOG #
TR 525CD
TR 525CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
2/3/2023
Acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter
Robert Forster
releases his eighth solo album,
The Candle And The Flame
. It's an album for Forster that has taken a very different path in creating than his previous works. The first single is titled "She's A Fighter". It reveals only part of what became a journey of creating music with family and friends with a need to find joy and solace in the face of adversity. Robert explains: "'She's A Fighter' is the last song I wrote for
The Candle And The Flame
album. I wrote the music for it in June 2021. I liked the tune and the quick energy of the song, but I didn't know yet what it was going to be about. In early July,
Karin Bäumler
, my wife and musical companion for thirty-two years, received a cancer diagnosis. In late July, with a series of chemotherapy sessions about to begin, Karin talked of fighting for her health and a path through chemotherapy to recovery. The phrase, 'She's A Fighter' came to me. I liked it. And I knew immediately that it would work with my new melody. I needed just one other line for the lyric. 'Fighting for good.' The song was finished. I had written my first two-line song. I had just out-
Ramone
d The Ramones! Because the song has so much meaning to us, we decided to record it as a family. The only time this happens on the album. Karin sings and plays xylophone. Our daughter
Loretta
plays electric guitar. Our son
Louis
plays guitar, bass and percussion. And I strum an acoustic guitar fiercely and sing. And that's 'She's a Fighter'." That coming together musically as a family is captured in the video for "She's A Fighter".
The Candle And The Flame
consists of nine songs written by Robert. Produced by Robert, Karin Bäumler, and
Louis Forster
(
The Goon Sax
), the album was mixed by
Victor Van Vugt
(
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
,
PJ Harvey
) and features former
Go-Betweens
and
Warm Nights
bass player
Adele Pickvance
as well as
Scott Bromiley
and
Luke McDonald
(
The John Steele Singers
), who worked on Robert's
Inferno
(TR 429CD/LP, 2019) and
Songs To Play
(TR 324CD/LP, 2015) albums. "The recording sessions for the album were done sporadically over six months. Sometimes just one or two days a month. As that was all Karin's strength and condition allowed her to do. So we had to record 'live', catching magical moments and going for 'feel'. And that became the sound of the album." says Robert.
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