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Heart Tales

by Dancing Sun

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Absolence_Tom A really soothing tone to the vocalist’s voice, lots of depth. A very good listen. I particularly enjoyed the breadth of timbres and the constant experimentation with the instrumentation in sections of the songs. Very nice!
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bmurator Austrian Progressive Metal. This is a one man, Bert Dittrich, project. This has some serious texture to it & is so multi-layered that it requires many listens to absorb! What a pleasure it is too! Plus you can tell that Bert has some great fun with the music which is precisely how it should be! I very much look forward to what comes next! Thanks Bert! Highly recommended!!! Favorite track: Heart Tales.
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flightoficarus (Metal Trenches) I really do feel like hitting some waves with this highly uplifting, sun-soaked instrumentation. The perfect album as we finally transition back tot some warm weather.
- MetalTrenches.com Favorite track: New Breath.
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Alice M. Powerful storytelling with prog-without-overdoing-it instrumentation. The vocals might be a bit of an acquired taste, but they come with a great dose of playfulness and cheer you up through the heavier parts.
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TheEliteExtremophile Heart Tales’ longer songs are the obvious high points. The extra space allows Dancing Sun to have the most fun with structure.

Full review here: theeliteextremophile.com/2021/02/16/odds-ends-february-16-2021/
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ststygma A journey of joy, love and of course, heavy guitars! Dancing sun didn't close the circle to its predecessor, they are rising up to a new horizon of fantastic adventure! The little bird grew wings of a majestic Eagle!
This is way beyond music!
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1.
New Breath 02:18
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2.
The 5. Element 03:26
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The 5. Element My ego woke me up one day I settled down beside the fire til’ yesterday came back I remembered what she told me about the gifts while her disease “I am back!” she said “this is for you!" and gave me all her peace Now that you are the new girl on my mind All seems won & lost nothing seems real Now that I am the new pearl inside your shell We met to lift each other up that is the deal Do we worship the same castle of the grail? Come on tell me where are you grounded and what’s your hymn? It’s the end of the world since 20.000 years Come on baby tell me where do you cling to when you bite the dust? Now that you are the new girl on my mind...
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Riki Tek's Garden 05:16
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Rikki Tek’s Garden This is an old tale black olive eyes and down, down, down the rabbit hole Inmost the tornado we are save offside our shelter storm-shaped waves and gusty sea all of a sudden we realize it’s 20 years a.d. Singer and tailor am I doubled the joys that I know Proud of my lilt to the sky Proud of the house that I sew So weave I my music Inmost the tornado we are save... Evil that plagued us is slain Tell me his nest and his name. Death in the garden lies dead Rikki with eyeballs of flame the ivory-fanged
4.
Brothers in Soul 05:21
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Brothers in Soul Next to the opera there’s a set for a celluloid... You won’t believe it at room 101 Metal is the healing score You won’t believe it rot’n roll is the healing score Doom Metal is his healing score Life, Light & Love to you my brother in soul Beside the metro station there is a panopticon a cold war beauty a setting for a cellulose... You won’t believe it in floor 18 at room 101 Doom Metal is his healing score Iron Maiden is his healing score Doom Metal is his healing score He is flying above the blanket he is immune and he is riding the stars above Vienna of the famous Hällas band Beside the metro station there is a panopticon for 1773 pax Dreamless nights ‘cause one of them is you Life, Light & Love to you my brother in soul
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The grass is always greener... 02:16
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The grass is always greener... Would you play this wicked sunride? Would you play this game without a hand on your shoulder? We love the things we cannot have there is nothing we can give without love Fuck the Angst Fuck the naysayers we sell ourselves to an idea and maybe burn in hell we love the things we cannot have...
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Fuck the Angst! 03:51
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Fuck the Angst! In quest for alignment to satisfy my conscience... I wrote this down on a cardboard-box in December madness when I came to this conclusion to write this song To fuck the Angst with empty hands you cannot fail this song shall kill all the Angst... of going astray the unlived life of the forlorn mind lost in the dungeon where the dragons hide 50 seconds infantile, 20 seconds juvenile what else can we do than enjoy the speed of life To fuck the Angst...
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Heart Tales 08:42
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Heart Tales Turn all logics upside down we don’t let you take us down Throw all dishes into the river we don’t let you down When my dad called me to tell me his Jack & Walter-neighbour stories All our show-off-summer-smile, all our blessing is poisoned water on the mills of jealousy Where is the awareness that we had yesterday Where is the consciousness that we had yesterday We’ve been dreaming, now we’re digging in the soil Where is the awareness that we had yesterday All started in November when I was pissed as a newt... I’ve gone through panic mode I’ve gone through winter ripeness “Is this your heroes lot?” she asked “No, it’s the big plot jumping down from the stage” Among the powwow of the tree I imagine you at my side Here I am this is me the onlooker Here I am this is me your lost son We surrender to the confidence we drop in the things we cannot change we close our eyes against diffusion we till the soil & circus under the law of the in & outside All started in November when I was pissed as a newt... We’ve gone through winter ripeness the tree, the tribe in panic mode
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Nature teaches Love 03:52
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Nature teaches Love Down below the catacombs of titles & files he was Jonathan Price in utopian Brazil and at the counter of the bookshop above she handed me the paperback of reality stocktaking Hey! driven girls of driven man what are you doing in my dream How can less, how can less be more How can less, how can less be more I’m strolling above the Meerschaum of your soulquake ocean I’m on my way to Stevensons island for consolidation reasons How can less... ‘Cause all I wanted you to stay, you smiled and gave me the key to the woods and walked away...

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www.dancingsun.at

Meanwhile working on a concept album based upon Rudyard Kipling's Junglebook & works of Jakob Lorber 8 personal ribbons of love & desire moved into the fore light of Dancing Sun.
It is very possible that the Beatles on Acid would have released 'Heart Tales' if they had been windsurfing in Greece and been inspired by Carcass, King Crimson & Dead can Dance.
After 'Firefable' has seen the light of the day Dancing Suns domain of tales prospected love minerals on the bench test of time.
Celluloid & Cellulose songs ask hot potatoe questions such as 'Do we worship the same castle of the grail?' 'How can less be more?' & 'How can a mongoose kill a cobra?' The answer is always the same: Fuck the Angst!

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Sometimes when the spoken word cannot provide a way for interaction communication there's an old vessel with its sails of poetry to set. This ship bears the name 'Heart Tales'.

credits

released October 16, 2020

Mixed by Andi Gassner
Mastered by Tony Lindgren - Fascination Street Studios

Artwork illustrated by Philipp Strohmeier
Layout by Johann Zuschnegg


REVIEWS

“Labyrinth Music of Sun, Coffee & Playfulness”
"...At the same time, “Heart Tales” is a textured and multi-layered piece of art with highly uplifting, sun-soaked instrumentation and genre-bending “fruit of art” full of sun-soaked catchiest of upbeat and overall fun! Where one will find each different composition/characteristic (various tones, tempos and atmosphere) are convenient to place at the right moment and again well-composed and arranged, adding elements/influences of psychedelic rock, post-rock, Krautrock, darkly doom metal, progressive rock/metal, experimental rock (hint of industrial rock/synth-wave vibe -but not overpowering!) that consists of the playfulness and breathtakingly awe-inspiring guitar work of (tight) progressive passages and riffs that graceful dances cross the fret-board alongside with complex rhythms and sometimes even psychedelic insertions, various drum strikes/fill and tempos, industrial and rekindling atmospheric keys/progressive rock synth work (which reminds me of “Deep Purple” or “ELP” key-work) and all wrapped around with deep smoky whiskey vocals..."

metal1on1.squarespace.com/progtech/dancingsun

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"Dancing Suns “Heart Tales” bewegt sich frei und ohne Hast über Genregrenzen und Stildifferenzierungen hinweg. Bunt schillernder Krautrock fügt sich in düsteren Doom Metal ein, und kalter Post Rock lässt sich auf einen anmutigen Tanz auf Prog Metal-Riffs ein."

"Mal sehnsüchtig und gefühlvoll, und andermal kräftig und bestimmt präsentiert sich Bird of the Sun auf Dancing Sun’s zweitem Album."

"Alles in allem haben Dancing Sun hier ein künstlerisch anspruchsvolles und vielfältig schönes Album produziert."

Raphael Lukas Genovese, BetreutesProggen.de

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"Wer immer schon mal wissen wollte, wie es wäre, wenn Michael Köhlmeier eine Prog-Band gehabt hätte, dem wird nun geholfen, denn mit Dancing Suns neuem Album Heart Tales hört man endlich wieder Rotz'n'Roll in Pan's Labyrinth. Mit dem Zweitlingswerk schafft es das Musikkollektiv hinter der Grazer Kunstfigur „Bert," nicht nur Fans von Opeth bis Black Sabbath zu begeistern, sondern auch Menschen mit Lederflecken an Jackett zum Nicken zu bringen. Verschmitzte Orgeln, sämige Gitarren und lyrische Aphorismen für einen ganzen Wandkalender 2021 (with empty hands you cannot fail!) sorgen dafür, dass man Heart Tales nun endlich auch im Auto der Freundin auflegen kann. „Bert" spricht aus, was man ansonsten nur während Baroness in der dritten Reihe denkt: Metal als Heilung der Seele, Geschwisterntum statt Angst, und amicitia fortior statt homo homini lupus."

"Wer sich im Lockdown nach Berührung sehnt, sollte hier zugreifen, denn Heart Tales verteilt Watschen. Ein gelungenes Album, das nostalgisch macht, auch wenn man keine gute Kindheit hatte. Eindeutig fünf von fünf Tomaten auf meinem Balkon."

Dr.Sheepleechinger, Cyberborg Bachmannpreis

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"Und in der Tat lässt der Sonnenvogel musikalisch dann kaum etwas anbrennen, nach dem lässigen, instrumental rockenden Opener „New Breath“ gibt es bei „The 5. Element“ smooth-vertrackte Klänge aufs Ohr, die von ziemlich abgefahrenen, von richtig cooler, rauer Wüstenstimme intonierten Lyrics ergänzt werden. Mit dem zunächst fast ein wenig funky um die Ecke kommenden „Riki Tek's Garden“ bekommt die musikalische Ursuppe, die DANCING SUN aus Kraut und Rüben zwischen treibendem Rock, komplexen Rhythmen und teils gar psychedelischen Einschüben kredenzen, die richtige Würze."

"Hervorstechend aus dem stilistischen Chamäleon, das immer, wenn man glaubt, die Struktur durchschaut zu haben, mit einer überraschenden Wendung überrascht, ist die rauchige Whiskey Voice, die sich als einziger Roter Faden mit Gelassenheit durch das musikalische Wimmelbild von „Heart Tales“ zieht."

Anthelerero, Stormbringer.at

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"Ein progressiver Wahnwitz der besonderen Qualität ist das 2. Full-Length des enigmatischen Oneman-Projekts aus Graz, das eine virtuose, wunderbar transparent produzierte Tour de Force des komplexen, sehr abwechslungsreichen Artrocks darstellt. Die 8 vorwiegend kompakten Tracks leben von der rauhen, dunklen Stimme, den schweren-verspielten Gitarren, den druckvollen Drumgrundierungen und den dosiert-opulenten Orgel/Keyboards-Flächen. Ein in seiner Gesamtheit dunkles, vielfältiges, mit ambitionierten Breaks und unwiderstehlichen Arrangements aus Doom, Alternative und Prog ausgespieltes Konzeptwrk, das bei Opeth andockt."

flight 13 records

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BACKGROUND:

1 New Breath

2 The 5. Element

3 Riki Tek's Garden
I'm fascinated, when fiction in the form of Celluloid or Cellulose & reality effect each other. As happened in Summer 2019 when I read the short story in the Junglebook (1894) "Rikki Tikki Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling.

funded by Robert Bogensperger

4. Brothers in Soul
...based on a true story. Nomen est Omen - check out the lyrics.
The last song that had to be written due a chain reaction of wonders in Spring 2020.

5. The grass is always greener...
An outburst of temper written with the emphasis of red wine
...but what do people do, when a feme covert mouse tweak their nose, if they're not able to write songs?

6. Fuck The Angst!
Sign of the times.
It had been written in December 2018 when I had no clue about the upcoming collective fear and its abuse.
Meanwhile producing Dancing Suns Debut "Firefable" the track popped up as the first one of the Heart Tales-series. Invented as the answer to an existential threat.

7. Heart Tales
Family issues...

8. Nature teaches love
...a message from the catacombs of a bookshop was written in my new bought book. As a reaction this cineastic mind fuck had been formed- Next to the below ground fantasies & the wet dreams of Umberto Eco I watched back then a number of metal documentaries and was blown away when I heard Ingwie Malmsteen in front of his Ferraris say "How can less be more?"

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What if Carcass & Dead can Dance had drunken Raki at Crete?

Dancing Sun is the inner bearing of Bert Dittrich, located in Graz, Austria.

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