Lighthouse is the third studio album by Russian chamber progressive band iamthemorning. It was released on 1 April 2016 through Kscope. It features several guest musicians, including Gavin Harrison and Colin Edwin from Porcupine Tree, as well as Mariusz Duda from Riverside.
The album was primarily recorded at Murder Mile Studios in London and Mosfilm Studios in Moscow, mixed at Murder Mile Studio, mastered by Marcel van Limbeek and Neil Pickles at Reveal Sound Studios in London and produced by iamthemorning. The album was premiered by AllMusic on 30 March 2016.
Reception
The album was positively received by critics, with favorable reviews and complimentary comments from specialized music sites such as AllMusic, the indie music site Echoes and Dust, or the UK metal blog The Metalist.
AllMusic gave the album a 4 out of 5 score, and Thom Jurek's review emphasizes that while "The music on Lighthouse is more restrained than on earlier albums ... The control executed over pace, narrative, and arrangements is remarkably consistent and strong, making the set an inseparable whole...", and then concludes that "Despite referencing sounds familiar to many, this piano-and-vocal duo carve out a persona that's unmistakably their own."
On 1 September Lighthouse won album of the year at TeamRock's 2016 Progressive Music Awards.
Track listing
Personnel
iamthemorning Gleb Kolyadin - grand piano, keyboards Marjana Semkina - lead and backing vocals
Guest musicians Gavin Harrison - drums Colin Edwin - bass Vlad Avy - guitars Evan Carson - bodhrán and percussion Andres Izmailov - harp Tatiana Rezetdinova - flute Roman Erofeev - clarinet Sergey Korolkov - trumpet Oksana Stepanova - bombard Philipp Saulin - violin Mikhail Ignatov - cello Mariusz Duda - vocals
Production Marcel van Limbeek - mixing, mastering
Gianluca Capacchione - mixing Vlad Avy - mixing Neil Pickles - mixing, mastering Constantine Nagishkin - artwork Mikhail Meerov - design
Strings Ensemble Violins: Anastasia Razumets, Aleksandra Svidunovich, Zhuldyz Bukina, Tatiana Kuvaitseva, Philipp Saulin Violas: Aleksander Bogdanovich, Ksenia Ivanova Cellos: Mikhail Ignatov, Evgenia Ignatova Double bass: Alexander Kuznetcov
"Perezvony" Choir (featured on Sleeping pills) Larisa Yarutskaya - conductor and art-director Stanislava Sorokina, Svetlana Utkina, Yury Volkov, Maria Cherepanova, Elizaveta Levina, Anastasia Andriyanenko, Daria Severinova, Alina Vahrina, Anastasia Kavalerova, Nikol Zgeib, Anna Sokolova, Anastasia Malova, Sofia Liberman, Margarita Raspopova, Martin Sadomirsky, Svetlana Philippova, Serafima Chervotkina
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