Far from the Madding Crowd (album)
Encyclopedia
Far from the Madding Crowd is the third full-length album by Danish
band Wuthering Heights
. The title is taken from the novel by Thomas Hardy
, Far from the Madding Crowd
, though the subject matter of the songs themselves has little to do with the content of the novel, having more in common with the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
band Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights (band)
Wuthering Heights is a Danish heavy metal band, with a somewhat eclectic musical style which falls in somewhere between progressive, folk, and power metal.- Biography :...
. The title is taken from the novel by Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
, Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. Critical notices were plentiful and mostly positive...
, though the subject matter of the songs themselves has little to do with the content of the novel, having more in common with the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Track listing
- "Gather Ye Wild" – 1:46
- "The Road Goes Ever On" – 7:49
- "Tree" – 5:03
- "Longing for the Woods Part I - The Wild Children" – 5:35
- "Highlands Winds" – 6:55
- "Longing for the Woods Part II - The Ring of Fire" – 6:14
- "The Bollard" – 3:29
- "Bad Hobbits Die Hard" – 3:22
- "Longing for the Woods Part III - Herne's Prophecy" – 8:38
- "Land of Olden Glory" – 6:21
- "Lament for Lórien" – 5:52
- "Memory Within a Memory" (Instrumental) – 5:41 (Japanese bonus-track)
- "The Tapdancer/Gather ye Wild (reprise)" – 4:08 (USA bonus-track)
Line-up
- Erik Ravn – guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals
- Nils Patrik JohanssonNils Patrik JohanssonNils Patrik Johansson is a Swedish heavy metal singer, best known as the vocalist for both Astral Doors and Wuthering Heights.-Astral Doors:* Of the Son and the Father * Evil Is Forever * Raiders of the Ark...
– vocals - Rune S. Brink – keyboards
- Henrik FlymanHenrik FlymanHenrik Flyman is a Swedish guitarist, award winning composer and producer. Henrik is best known from his current, and longest lasting, band Evil Masquerade. He was the founding member of Swedish fantasy metal band Moahni Moahna where he was active between 1992-1997. Shortly after he formed ZooL,...
– guitar - Morten Gade Sørensen – drums, percussion
Guest musicians
- Jette Hansen – bagpipe
- Lisbeth Sagen – violin
- Ulrik Tofte Jespersen – flute
- Henrik Svanekær – banjo
- Tommy Hansen – backing vocals
Credits
- Music and lyrics by Erik Ravn, except:
- "The Bollard" (music and lyrics by Pilegaard/Jespersen/The McGalster Clan)
- "Lament For Lórien" (music by Rune S. Brink, Erik Ravn)
- Recorded at Jailhouse Studios, Horsens, May-June 2003; bagpipe, flutes, banjo, violin and Henrik Flyman's guitars were recorded at Digital Bitch, Copenhagen, Spring 2003
- Preproduction recorded at The Cave and Digital Bitch, Copenhagen, Summer 2002-Spring 2003
- Recorded by Tommy Hansen (at Jailhouse Studios) and Henrik FlymanHenrik FlymanHenrik Flyman is a Swedish guitarist, award winning composer and producer. Henrik is best known from his current, and longest lasting, band Evil Masquerade. He was the founding member of Swedish fantasy metal band Moahni Moahna where he was active between 1992-1997. Shortly after he formed ZooL,...
(at Digital Bitch) - Produced, mixed, and engineered by Tommy Hansen
- Mastered by Joe Gastwirt
- Cover art by David Wyatt
- Photos by Anders C. Nielsen
- Design, layout, and image manipulation by Michael Bennett