Steve Mahoney
Rhian Sheehan Quiet Divide is simply stunning. Another superb release from Rhian Sheehan.The cd and album package design are epic. I rate this album release 10 out of 10.
Wisdoms End
A Quiet Divide is something between Neo Classic and Ambient music.
It listens like some sort of story told with quiet, harmonic and peacefull harmonies.
Always nice to find another Kiwi project!
Favorite track: Soma Dreams.
Five years since the release of his previous studio album, Rhian Sheehan returns with A Quiet Divide. Acclaimed for both his music and his composition, Sheehan’s latest piece of work is a sublime marriage of orchestral chamber music with textural cinematic guitar and synth soundscapes.
A Quiet Divide sees his most cinematic piece of work to date, merging his experience crafting cinematic scores with the post-rock sound listeners have come to expect.
credits
released October 5, 2018
Produced, recorded & engineered by Rhian Sheehan.
Co-produced by Raashi Malik.
Soma Dreams co-produced by Jol Mulholland.
Toward The Sun co-produced by Levi Patel.
Recorded at DeepSpace Studio & The Surgery Recording Studio Wellington, Roundhead Studios & The Lab Recording Studio, Auckland.
All music written by R. Sheehan, except:
Soma Dreams, written by R.Sheehan & R. Malik.
Toward The Sun, written, produced and recorded by R. Sheehan & L. Patel.
Pianos recorded & engineered by Paddy Hill at Roundhead Studios, Auckland. Additional piano recorded & engineered by Mike Gibson at Massey School of Music, Wellington. Drums & crotales recorded & engineered by Lee Prebble at The Surgery Recording Studio, Wellington. Strings recorded & engineered at Stella Maris Chapel by John Neill with music editing by Tane Upjohn-Beatson. Piano, vocals, & additional guitar on Toward The Sun recorded & engineered by Levi Patel. French Horns recorded & engineered by Jacob E Rush at Studio509, Auckland. Drums, bass & percussion on So-ma Dreams recorded & engineered by Jol Mulholland.
Musicians:
Rhian Sheehan: Guitars, Bass, Piano, Keys, Synths, Percussion, Textures, Field recordings, Metallophone, Musicboxes, Glockenspiels, Celesta & Baritone Ukulele.
Raashi Malik: Piano (4,5,6,10,12)
Justin Bird: Piano (2,3)
Jeff Boyle: Guitar (5,6,13)
Arli Liberman: Guitar (1,5,7,12)
Ryan Prebble: Guitar (5,6), Bass (6)
Steve Bremner: Drums (6), Crotales (6,12)
Jol Mulholland: Drums (4), Bass (4), Shaker (4), Lap Steel (4), Voice (4)
Ed Zuccollo: Mini Moog bass (2,3)
Anna Edgington: Voice (5,6)
Levi Patel: Guitar (7), Piano (7), Voice (7)
Gala Morris: Voice (7)
Strings: Performed by Stroma FilmWorks & conducted by Hamish McKeich. French Horns: Emma Eden & David Kay.
String arrangements by Ryan Youens & Rhian Sheehan. Raashi Malik co-arranger on April. Levi Patel & Jeremy Reid co-arrangers on Toward The Sun. Strings orchestrated by Ryan Youens. Horns & Strings on Toward The Sun orchestrated by Jeremy Reid.
Album mixed by Rhian Sheehan & Mike Gibson at Munki Studios & Park Road Post, Miramar, Wellington.
Mastered by Mike Gibson.
Photography by Ian Robertson.
Design by Jaime Robertson.