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Onkalo

by Petrels

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Oddball It's a concept album about the spiritual implications of nuclear storage facility with an unfathomable lifespan. What can one do save be blown away by it? Favorite track: Characterisation Level.

Richard Sanderson Splendidly textured droneathon. Trippy and precise. Favorite track: On The Dark Great Sea.

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1.	Hinkley Point Balloon Release 04:14	buy track
2.	Giulio's Throat 10:08	buy track
3.	On The Dark Great Sea 04:56	buy track
4.	Time Buries The Door 04:57	buy track
5.	White and Dodger Herald The Atomic Age 08:14	buy track
6.	Trim Tab pt.1 05:56	buy track
7.	Trim Tab pt.2 03:58	buy track
8.	Characterisation Level 20:14	buy track
9.	Kindertransport 11:15	buy track

about

Onkalo is the follower of the highly praised Petrels concept debut album Haeligewielle ("Petrels has provided us with what has to be the strongest solo debut from a musician so far in 2011." (Fluid Radio) + "The album is a masterpiece of narrative, a blackened ship with a broken mast that defies the storm and in so doing discovers its own dark destiny." (8.5/ 10 - The Silent Ballet)

Onkalo ('hiding place') is the name of the spent nuclear fuel repository currently under construction in Finland to house hazardous nuclear waste. It is designed to last a minimum of 100,000 years - a scale of time unimaginable when the oldest surviving man made structures have endured not even a tenth of that time. The human species as we know it is thought to have existed for approximately 100,000 years - is it possible for humankind to build something that will endure a timescale that vast again? And what will be left to uncover it if it does so?

Taking this as a starting point, Petrels second album - after acclaimed debut Haeligewielle - draws on a fascination with how we deal with what is left over, both physically and mentally. With this thread running through Onkalo, Petrels also takes inspiration from speculative science, immense time scales, retro-futurism, personal history, and how the post-war optimism of the dawn of the atomic age has come up against a more uncertain vision of the future.

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released March 29, 2013

Denovali Records, 2013.
denovali.com/petrels/

All tracks written, performed, recorded and produced by Oliver Barrett. Additional vocals in On The Dark Great Sea by Holly Stead. Kindertransport was first performed at the BFI in April 2010 with a quartet consisting of myself, Sarah Evans, Phil Noyce and Simon Trevethick. Thankyou.

CONTACT: PETPETRELS (at) GMAIL (dot) COM for further info/gigs/etc

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