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Salon des Refus​é​s

by In Lingua Mortua

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ClassyMusicSnob
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ClassyMusicSnob I remember when this album was released. If I'm remembering properly, it was released not too far away from Ahabs debut. yet even after all of these years, I and the 2nd album are still untouchable as the band created such a uniquely jazzy black metal album, I'm so sad that they never got the attention they deserved and have a very limited discography. In Lingua Mortua is criminally underrated and Salon des Refuses is such an amazing album to get lost in. 5/5
Dmitry Nevozhay
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Dmitry Nevozhay Avantgarde black metal from 2010 with King Crimson vibes/sound, and with inclusions of the saxophone, flute and mandoline. Members of Angst Skvadron, Shining (NO), Shining (SE), Kvist, etc. Favorite track: Into The Mincer.
Lorenzo
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Lorenzo Compelling progressive black metal filled with wild saxophone that harkens back to King Crimson. Challenging and expansive, it all comes across with a boldness and intent that was (and possibly still is) groundbreaking.
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El Zombie Espacial King Crimson se besa en la boca con el Black Metal!!! Favorite track: Like The Ocean.
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In Lingua Mortua’s genre defining avant-garde black metal masterpiece, Salon des Refusés, is now available for the first time ever on vinyl.

Originally released by Norway’s Termo Records in 2010, many may be unaware of this album despite it’s credit sheet looking like hall-of-fame of black metal visionaries. Salon des Refusés is the brain child of Lars Fredrik Frøislie (Wobbler, Angst Skvadron) and features performances by Jørgen Munkeby (Shining - NOR), Niklas Kvarforth (Shining - SWE), Trondr Nefas (Kvist, Urgehal, Beastcraft), Thebon (Keep of Kalessin), Ketil Vestrum Einarsen (Jaga Jazzist), Jacob Holm-Lupo (White Willow) & Thomas Myrvold (Beastcraft).

Available to pre-order now on limited black & white swirl vinyl and standard black vinyl, featuring newly written liners notes written by Jacob Holm-Lupo. Read an excerpt of the liner notes at the bottom of this post.

PRE-ORDER:
www.reposerecords.com (U.K./ROW)
www.reposerecords.8merch.com (EU)
reposerecords.bandcamp.com

For digital downloads, please support the band directly: inlinguamortua.bandcamp.com

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‘When we think of progressive rock, we tend to think of delicate tapestries of sounds, light, soaring vocals and lyrics about airy-fairy nonsense.

Black metal is the polar opposite: Bone-crunching, relentless and primitive riffage, guttural cro-magnon grunts and existential lyrics about abysmal darkness and anguish. How could the two possibly co-exist?

From today’s vantage point it’s probably not entirely inconceivable, but back in 2007 and 2010, when In Lingua Mortua released their first and second albums respectively, it was a very strange notion indeed.

Especially when you confounded an already confusing mixture with another element: jazz. Today we actually have a name for that mixture: Blackjazz. And it all started here - with multi-instrumentalist and prog rock icon Lars Fredrik Frøislie’s In Lingua Mortua.

To quote mr. Blackjazz himself, SHINING’s saxophonist/guitarist/singer Jørgen Munkeby: ”Lars’ refreshing blend of an impressive intellectual display and direct raw power has been a big inspiration for me. Lars is a true pioneer. He was the first person to invite me to play sax in a black metal setting, and in so doing, contributed strongly to SHINING’s later development of the Blackjazz genre.”

What you are holding in your hands right now is the culmination of Lars’ vision for a new brand of black metal: Expansive, cinematic, challenging, grooving, contrasting and engaging. It was on ILM’s second album, Salon des Refusés, that all these things came together in a perfect, alchemical elixir.

It wasn’t that attempts at expanding the palette of black metal hadn’t been made before. And of course, being a Norwegian himself, Lars was inundated in the sounds of black metal from his teens and onwards. Bands like Emperor, Satyricon and Ulver had all pushed the envelope of BM by incorporating keyboards, more complex song structures and lyrics that weren’t all Satanic clichés.

But it took someone with Lars’ pedigree and credentials to really make it all gel. As a leading light on the international prog rock scene with his band Wobbler, and as a card-carrying expert on vintage and arcane keyboards, from the Chamberlin and the Mellotron to knob-bedecked analog synthesizers, Lars was in a unique position to bring a sense of reality to his black metal symphonies.’

credits

released April 10, 2022

Music by Lars F. Frøislie, recorded and mixed at LFF Studios between 2001 and 2008. Mastered by Tom Kvålsvoll at Strype Audio.
Released by Termo Records 2010.
Vinyl licensed to Repose Records 2022.

Lars F. Frøislie: vocals, drums, keyboards, harmonica, guitar and bass
Jacob Holm-Lupo: guitar and bass
Jørgen Munkeby: saxophone and bass clarinet
Niklas Kvarforth: vocals
Raymond Haakenrud: guitar
Trondr Nefas: guitar-solo
Marius Olaussen: baritone guitar
Ketil Vestrum Einarsen: flute
Thomas Myrvold: guitar, mandolin and bass
Marius Bergom Halleland: guitar-solo
Martin Johannsson: guitar
Tony Kåreid: guitar
Anders Blystad: acoustic guitar and el.guitar
Martin Nordrum Kneppen: guitar
Hallvard W. Hagen: acoustic guitar
Thebon: vocals

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