{"id":21559,"date":"2020-09-22T04:49:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T04:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=21559"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:32:12","slug":"pro00372","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/pro00372\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanatos: Portland (CD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1173870460\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/thanatos-portland?campaign=sam\">Thanatos: Portland<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n1.  Dazzling 05:10<br \/>\n2. Firmament 03:22<br \/>\n3. Bloodbuzz Ohio (The National cover) 04:07<br \/>\n4. A Certain Sense of Collapse 04:45<br \/>\n5. Cathedral Song (Tanit Tikarum cover) 02:47<br \/>\n6. I Barely Plan To Feel 03:46<br \/>\n7. I\u2019ll Be Your Mirror (Velvet Underground cover) 02:12<br \/>\n8. Hearts Like Ours 02:48<br \/>\n9. Half Past France (John Cale cover) 04:10<br \/>\n10. Entangled Our Bodies 02:25<br \/>\n11. The Shattered Sky Now Settled 03:22<br \/>\n12. Incoming Storm 03:53<br \/>\n13. Creatures 03:01<br \/>\n14. Tangle 04:14\n<\/div>\n<table width=\u201c400\" bgcolor=\"dacdcd\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">Purchase in Europe for fast, inexpensive shipping:<br \/>\n <img src=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/Projekt-Europe-1.png width=350><br \/>\nInformation in English <a href=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/projekt-europe-webstore\/>here<\/a>. Click to order <a href=\"https:\/\/deejaydead.de\/en\/thanatos-portland-cd-digipack-2020-ltd-300-voe-09-10\" target=\"BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CD<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Following stylistically upon their two early-90s Projekt releases, Thanatos returns to sparse dark-rock atmospheres. Back after a 23-year collaborative hiatus, Patrick Ogle (guitar &#038; vocals) and Sam Rosenthal (of Projekt \/ Black Tape For A Blue Girl, electronics) unleash emotionally rich undertones on <B>Portland<\/B>&#8216;s 14 tracks. Patrick&#8217;s voice heralds the incoming storm, ranging from soulful, melancholy vocals to raspy, gritty crooning. In 2020, Thanatos comes full circle &#8211; direct and timely, classic &#038; vintage; moving, somber melancholia with undercurrents of desire and anticipation.<\/p>\n<p><BR>It\u2019s as if time stopped for\u2026 I don\u2019t know\u2026 25 years? <strong>Portland<\/strong> sounds like it was released at the end of the 90\u2019s, as if Pat and Sam never stopped working together. Fans of <strong>This Endless Night Inside<\/strong> or <strong>An Embassy to Gaius<\/strong>-era Thanatos are hard-pressed to believe this record is brand new and evolved after such a long pause. What gives it away is a few different tones \u2014 there\u2019s still melancholy but in a happy way, like good memories and things lost but always remembered and treasured. Poignant lyrics are delivered sometimes forcefully and at other times with a gentle caress over a sublime backdrop. The simplicity of Pat\u2019s guitar and voice and Sam\u2019s electronics creates an ethereal mood \u2014 soothing and captivating. Included are Thanatos\u2019 infamous cover songs: this outing highlights The National\u2019s \u201cBloodbuzz Ohio,\u201d The Velvet Underground\u2019s \u201cI\u2019ll Be Your Mirror,\u201d John Cale\u2019s \u201cHalf Past France,\u201d and Tanita Tikaram\u2019s \u201cCathedral Song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR><strong>Portland<\/strong> transcends this gloomy year of earthly crisis and shines a light into our panic-stricken eyes. For this moment, it washes all our hopelessness away.<\/p>\n<h3> \u201dThanatos creator Padraic Ogl strips down his sound even further leaving only gleaming bleached bones. Few artists can create such compelling atmospheres with vocals and acoustic guitar alone aided only by the occasional electronics from black tape for a blue girl\u2019s Sam Rosenthal. But Ogl does this with ease, exposing a subtle beauty, leaving the lyrics to glitter in the pale light.\u201d \u2013 Jo-Ann Greene Alternative Press<\/h3>\n<p>\ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8 \ud83d\udcd8<\/p>\n<p>We did it! This release was crowdfunded on Bandcamp. The campaign reached our goal! Thank you so much to the 105 backers who made this happen!<\/p>\n<p>$2765 raised of our $2500 goal.<br \/>\n105 backers got us there!<\/p>\n<p><BR>\ud83c\udfee A brief history of Thanatos \ud83c\udfee<\/p>\n<p><BR>Thanatos formed in the early 80s when vocalist\/guitarist Patrick Ogle (Padraic Ogl) and keyboardist Sam Rosenthal (Sam Rosenthal) began playing original music in South Florida. Dark Americana? Folk Music? Goth Rock? It\u2019s hard to say. Yes, it is dark sometimes, but it hardly harkens back to the forerunners of the goth genre. It\u2019s difficult to plug the music into a genre. Together, Ogle\/Rosenthal recorded 1993\u2019s THIS ENDLESS NIGHT INSIDE and 1995\u2019s AN EMBASSY TO GAIUS. After that, Rosenthal focussed on Projekt Records, while Ogle toured and recorded additional Thanatos albums with a full band.<\/p>\n<p><BR>\ud83c\udfee Reflections on the recording of Portland \ud83c\udfee<\/p>\n<p><BR>Pat comments, \u201cThis may be the best, certainly the most mature and cohesive, record we put out. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love those early records and I am incredibly proud of them. This album moves forward. I\u2019ve always felt musicians are like sharks; we die if we don&#8217;t keep moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>\u201cIt\u2019s like a seamless continuation,\u201d Sam adds. \u201cThe last time we recorded together was a couple tracks for THE NEIGHBOR OF THE BEAST ep, 23 years ago. We hadn&#8217;t done a full album since EMBASSY, which was recorded in &#8217;95. With Pat out here in Portland to record, it felt like we were back in California working together naturally as if decades hadn\u2019t slipped by since our last collaboration. Just like being in Pasadena\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><BR>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot less hot in Portland,\u201d Pat interjects. \u201cSam and I talked about doing some new music with the idea to do it like when we first recorded back in the stone ages\u2026. chiseling out our songs on rock&#8230; and riding the tablets between each other on our dinosaurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>\u201cThe dinosaurs grew old and lazy,\u201d Sam ruefully reflects, \u201cSo we had to step into the modern era. Pat took an airplane out to Portla\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>\u201cTwice,\u201d Pat interjects.<\/p>\n<p><BR>\u201c\u2026to record with me in my studio. The initial idea, at least from what Pat reminds me, was to do the same sort of songwriting as on the first two Thanatos albums. Pat had a musical idea of the song\u2019s structure, we hash it out a bit in person, and then record the song in as few takes as possible. After Pat\u2019s guitar and vocals were finished, I\u2019d add my synth parts while Pat rummaged through his notebook preparing on the next song, and adding helpful, \u2018Sure, yeah, that sounds good!\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p><BR>\u201cSam and I haven\u2019t made a record together for 25 years,\u201d Pat comments, \u201cAnd no, it isn\u2019t because we hate each other like the guys from Oasis (or for you older folks maybe\u2026 The Everley Brothers). We haven&#8217;t done anything together because we don&#8217;t live in the same city and it costs money to get together and do it. Your preorders here enable us to release this album. And honestly, possibly to encourage us to work together again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>\u201cBack in the old days,\u201d Pat continues, \u201cThe songs we worked on were built on lyrics one of us had written before ever getting together to record. I\u2019d take Sam\u2019s words (or mine) and work them into songs. That\u2019s the way I did it on Portland. In one instance, I found some 30-plus year old lyrics I wrote and turned them into songs. On some that Sam wrote, he gave me a stack of words he had written during the last year and told me to have at it, and form them into something new. I did much more slicing and dicing with his lyrics, mostly to get them to fit into the music I was writing. This led to us in the studio, discussing what the songs MEANT\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>\u201c\u2026 Most of Pat\u2019s edits were brilliant, he made them into something. But at times I would disagree with a word or an idea, as it didn\u2019t seem to be what I wanted to say\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>\u201cThat was interesting to me.\u201d Pat continues. &#8220;I am sitting there with the guy who wrote the words going back and forth about what they meant!&#8230; DUH!\u2026 Obviously HE knows what they meant, but I had rearranged them and they may mean something different to me. Personally I think it adds depth to the songs and the lyrics, to go about it this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>\u201cAn interesting thing about this record (and the first Thanatos record) is we split writing the words; some lyrics Sam wrote, some I did. But when I think about songs like \u2018The Wait Smothers Me\u2019 or \u2018Shadowed Sky Now Settled\u2019? My brain THINKS I wrote the words. I identify with those songs so much and it isn\u2019t just because I\u2019ve played them a hundred times each.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>This is Sam\u2019s 13th crowdfunding campaign, and Pat\u2019s 5th. Crowdfunding is the way we raise the money to create our albums in the modern version of the music industry. Crowdfunding is a wonderful connection we make with people who love our art. It reintroduces us to fans from back-in-the-day; and it\u2019s great chatting with you and hearing your experiences with our music.<\/p>\n<p> <BR><\/p>\n<h2>Limited edition CD: 300<br \/>\nCrowdfunding June 12 2020 &#8211; July 13 2020<\/h2>\n<p><BR><div class=\"socials\"><h2>love it, share it<\/h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00372%2F&t=Thanatos%3A+Portland+%28CD%29\" class=\"socials-small facebook-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" >facebook<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00372%2F&text=Thanatos%3A+Portland+%28CD%29\" class=\"socials-small twitter-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" >twitter<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00372%2F&media=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/PRO00372.jpg&description=+%0D%0A\" class=\"socials-small pinterest-small\"  onclick=\"window.open(this.href); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" >pinterest<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00372%2F&title=Thanatos%3A+Portland+%28CD%29\" class=\"socials-small google-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google\" >google<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/thanatos-portland?campaign=sam TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-Bandcamp.png width=129><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[54,105,25,566],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-21559","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all","product_cat-alternative-rock","product_cat-darkwave","product_cat-thanatos","pa_artist-sam-rosenthal","pa_artist-thanatos","pa_format-cd-in-6-panel-digipak","pa_label-projekt","pa_release-year-790","first","instock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/21559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=21559"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=21559"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=21559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}