Lighthouse (iamthemorning album) explained

Lighthouse
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	iamthemorning
Cover:	IamthemorningLighthouseCover.jpg
Released:	1 April 2016
Studio:	Murder Mile Studios in London (England); Mosfilm Studio in Moscow (Russia); Serakos Studio in Warsaw (Poland); Galernaya 20 Studio and Red-Wave Studio in Saint Petersburg (Russia).
Genre:	Progressive rock, chamber pop
Length:	47:24
Label:	Kscope
Producer:	iamthemorning
Prev Title:	From the House of Arts
Prev Year:	2014

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Artists: iamthemorning. Kscope. https://web.archive.org/web/20160403154920/http://www.kscopemusic.com/artists/iamthemorning/. 3 April 2016. 3 April 2016.
2. Web site: Album Premiere: Iamthemorning, 'Lighthouse'. 30 March 2016. AllMusic. 3 April 2016.
3. Web site: The Progressive Music Awards 2016: Live Blog. TeamRock. Prog. 1 September 2016. 4 September 2016.