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Director's Cut

by Helldorado

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Blood Shack 04:33
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Payrolled 03:24
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Dead River 05:33
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Roadhouse 05:35

about

“This is an aptly named album by this excellent Norwegian outfit - their echoey, gothic take on rock’n’roll drips atmosphere and attitude, and would be perfect soundtracking some Quentin Tarantino flick. Blood Shack’s clattering tale of lust and vampirism sets the mood, and the other 11 tracks are filled with epic quantities of murder, deceit, guts, gore, hellfire and brimstone, all of it leavened with a dark, twisted sense of humour. There’s also more than a hint of Nick Cave in Dag S Vagle’s songs and voice, and in a fair and just world, Helldorado would find similar amounts of fawning press coverage and sales. Some chance.”(Belfast Telegraph)

Helldorado presents cinematic music inspired by Morricone and Tarrantino, epic and dramatic murder ballads, Americana, and Rock Noir with a flare for B-movies ala Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! Horn sections are added like habanero peppers to an open wound. Under the open sky, and across hot desert landscapes, the faithless characters of Helldorado’s world burn holes in our souls.

credits

released March 1, 2004

Dag Sindre Vagle: Vocal, guitar, banjo, bouzouki, organ
Bård Halsne: Guitar, space ecco, backing vocal
Hans A Wassvik: Bass, pedeal bass
Morten Jackman: Drums, saw, percussion

Also featuring:
Rune Helland: Pedal Steel
Angeli Kvartetten: Strings
Anne May H. Vagle: Backing vocals
Marianne Albert: Backing vocals
Pete Johansen: Fiddle
Ry Krüger: Slide Guitar

Angeli Kvartetten:
Alyson Reed: Violin
Elisabeth S.Lie: Violin
Lise S. Bråtelund: Viola
Paulin Skoglund Voss: Cello

All songs by Vagle, except track 3 and 7: Vagle/Hagfors, track 4: Vagle / Vagle, Hagfors

Recorded at Amper Tone Studio, Oslo. August 2003 by Johnny Skalleberg. Mixed at Amper Tone Studio. October 2003 by Johnny Skalleberg, Eirik Lye and Helldorado. Mastered at Cutting Room, Sweden. January 2004. Sleeve design and photo by Ole Martin Lund Bø
Johan Egdetveit: string arrangements on Ludy And Mary
Bengt Olav Hansen: String arrangements on Dead River

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Helldorado Stavanger, Norway

Helldorado evokes the sensation of a burning sun on your neck, crunched sand between your teeth, a salty taste on your lips, a shaky finger on the trigger of a Colt 45, circling vultures silhouetted against a blue-white sky, a double whiskey on an empty stomach, and the smell of bacon, beans, gunpowder, leather & sweat. ... more

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