ALL HALLOWS EVE
THE DREAMING

After the release of the digital single "All Hallows Eve" in spring 2013, the same-named project around composer / producer Tom O'Connell (Traumtaenzer, House Of Usher, Dracul, ex-Garden of Delight), bassist / guitarist Lars Kappeler and drummer Mike Shaw is going to release its first album entitled "The Dreaming" in spring 2014.

For the recording of the album's eleven songs there was an endless coming and going of numerous great names of the gothic and dark wave scene like Myk Jung (The Fair Sex), Marion Kuchenmeister (Invisible Limits), Ashley Dayour (Whispers In The Shadow) to name a few influencing the sound of the album especially by their vocal contribution, sometimes as a duo (title song "The Dreaming"). And yet, "The Dreaming" does not present any dark cliched pap and keeps gratefully away from constructed scene hit producers. In fact, the album’s music clearly courses through classic gothic rock and wave rock which is especially owed to Tom O'Connell's guitar play and precise songwriting. Throughout the album, the relationship with bands like This Mortal Coil (e. g. "Fade In Silence") or The Eden House is obvious.

Among others, Mike York (KALT, ex-Garden of Delight), Tim Chandler (Pretentious Moi?), Jorg Kleudgen (House Of Usher), Rachel Speight (Die Laughing), Ala Sharon Fries (Boudoir), Bianca Stücker (Violet) as well as Rob Leydon (The Eden House / Red Sun Revival) are responsible for the variety of music.

All in all, "The Dreaming" features an impressive diversity of music from rocking, gloomy-dark to melancholy and dreamy sounds. All participants fitted in seamlessly with the master plan and created an almost epic opus wonderfully entertaining the listener for more than one hour.