Burntfield – Impermanence
Immersive Progressive Rock
BURNTFIELD – IMPERMANENCE
LABEL: PROGRESSIVE GEARS RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 12th 2021
At the rising of the sun your house is built on stone foundations and the hand in yours is warm. Your future is painted in certain, solid colours and the rays of dawn touch all you see with gold. Yet in the space of a few brief hours, clouds gather and rain falls. The view ahead is lost in shadow, that hand of warmth and support turns cold and slips from your grasp and stone turns to sand. At the setting of the sun all you know lies broken and loss haunts the fallen ruins. The last flickers of gold are doused in the purple hues of dusk and the night of impermanence has begun…
Impermanence is the second album of richly melodic, deeply expressive, modern progressive rock from Amsterdam’s Burntfield. Each note on this beautifully eloquent collection carries a weight of meaning and resonates with powerful emotion that stirs the memory and touches the heart. There is a clean simplicity to the songs’ construction that the intricate performances work within, allowing the melodies to take flight and entrance the listener. The present moment slips away as tracks like ‘Back Again’ and ‘Everything Will Change’ unfold and bittersweet reminiscence embraces you. While guitarist-singer-songwriter Juho Myllylä’s words are clearly intensely personal, the honesty of their expression makes the experiences described universally relatable. It’s this honesty and emotional openness which makes Impermanence more than just a brilliantly played and magnificently written album of modern progressive rock; it lifts it to the level of something truly special that can connect with and affect everyone who hears it.
Juho Myllylä formed Burntfield in 2012 and since then the band has released two EPs, two singles and excellent debut album Hereafter, that was hailed by Prog Planet for its ‘majesty and splendour’. However, when label Progressive Gears Records release Impermanence on November 12th, a new chapter for this remarkable band will begin. With this album Juho Myllylä, along with bassist Maarten Vos and drummer Steven Favier, has opened a previously unseen door and crossed a threshold of experience. Together they have captured the essence of that moment when the fragility of existence is understood and innocence is inevitably lost. This is the sound of a dream breaking as the impermanence of the world is revealed.
Line-up:
Juho Myllylä – Vocals / Guitars
Maarten Vos – Bass
Steven Favier – Drums
Genre: Modern Progressive Rock
For fans of: Anathema | The Pineapple Thief | Opeth | Porcupine Tree
Further Information:
http://burntfield.com
https://progressivegears.com
“…filled to the brim with luscious textures…”
– HOUSE OF PROG
| Three years on from their highly praised debut album, Hereafter, Amsterdam’s Burntfield have returned with the next chapter in their story, the quite beautiful Impermanence. Eight new finely crafted songs, eight new pieces of articulate and expressive modern, progressive rock that explore the fragility of existence, the way in which our worlds can turn from gold to grey between the inhaling and exhaling of a breath. Burntfield was formed by guitarist-singer-songwriter Juho Myllylä in Helsinki, in 2012 and with each release the band has blossomed a little more, the music becoming more immersive, more emotionally affecting. Now, with Impermanence, everything about this remarkable musical entity has come to fruition. Each song is immaculately formed, imbued with an aching honesty and performed with a deft and subtle touch, allowing the melancholic melodies to float freely across the intricate sonic landscapes of heartbreak and precious, frozen moments from the past. When the album begins, with ‘Empty Dream’, the listener slips beneath the surface of their consciousness, being lead down the paths of memory, away from the present moment, by Myllylä’s earnest voice and the enchanted strands of music, the insistent pulse of the rhythms. Impermanence has every quality you would hope to find in a modern progressive rock album, but it has another dimension as well, an intimacy, a poignancy…time spent in its embrace is time well spent indeed. Progressive Gears Records will release Impermanence on November 12th on CD and vinyl, adorned with the wonderful imagery of Jesse Harrison which completes this stunning piece of work perfectly. Walk with Burntfield, taste the bittersweetness of lost innocence remembered and shed a tear for the impermanence of all we hold dear. The second single from Impermanence – ‘Empty Dream‘ – is available from all major digital retailers now. Visit the online home of Burntfield here For more information on Burntfield click here Visit Burntfield on Facebook Visit Progressive Gears Records here |
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