released November 7, 2011

All tracks composed, recorded and mixed between Leeds (Cloud Blunt Moon, St. Margaret of Antioch Church) & Paris (Magnum Diva) by Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland during the Winter 2010/2011. Recording assistance in St. Margaret of Antioch by Tim Hay.

Mastered by Lawrence English at 158.

Frédéric D. Oberland : piano, electric guitar, field recordings, harmonium, dulcimer, crystal glass, drones, slide, chimes, bowed glockenspiel, crackle, analog electronics

Richard Knox : electric guitar, drones, screwdriver, bowed cymbal, bowed glockenspiel, field recordings, companion organ

Angela Chan : viola, cello, choir

& guests, per order of appearance
David Ramsay : violin
Elly May Irving : choir
Matt Clark : ghost narration
Tim Hay : stompbox
Jayne Amara Ross : Super8 projector sounds

Thanks to Max Cooper for his remix of Sleeping Land Part. I

ARTWORK:
Photography by Frédéric D. Oberland
Layout / Design by Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland
Drawing & print by Two Ducks Disco

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ROCK-A-ROLLA - UK 'An accomplished, evocative musical voyage through the vast arctic seas and beyond.'
THE SILENT BALLET (best winter album) - USA 'In order to see this beauty, one must risk everything and perhaps be a little mad. Stunningly enunciated by Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland's nuanced approach to songwriting.'
FLUID RADIO - UK 'Sometimes bleak, sometimes discordant, but always powerful.'
THE 405 - UK 'Once in a while a piece of music comes along which stirs something deep inside, allowing you to forget about everything on the outside. Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland have managed to achieve such a piece with The Rustle of Stars, as typical post-rock stylings are cut with an undercurrent of classical decency.'
EXCLAIM - CA 'The Rustle of the Stars is a quietly majestic work, subtly yet utterly sublime, with hints of the sinister and omnipotent peeking around the plodding piano, sorrowful strings and woozy guitar. Its overly reverberant production and fragmented nature are like listening to a symphony when you're on a long bus ride, half-asleep, drifting in and out of consciousness while catching glimpses of wonder.'
TEXTURA (album of the month / best of 2012) - CA 'The album rewards one's attention for reasons that go far beyond an imaginative album title and concept. The material is elegiac and dramatic ambient-classical in style and features a heavy emphasis on strings and electric guitar. It's also at times desolate, with the music evoking the limitless and barren expanses of icy terrain and often cloaked in a shroud of haunting gloom.'
PINKUSHION - FR 'L’auditeur nage ainsi dans les eaux troubles d’une musicalité emmêlée et hétérogène, sans pour autant s’arrêter d’avancer dans la ligne tracée par les différentes sonorités. Hormis un caractère éminemment sensuel, c’est un exercice de la disparition dont il est question ici, à travers la blancheur, dans toute sa beauté.'
HARTZINE - FR 'Nous faisant frissonner, nous enveloppant lentement dans son manteau de brouillard, The Rustle Of The Stars saisit par ses harmonies abyssales et ses notes mélancoliques et convoque les esprits des capitaines de vaisseaux faits prisonniers des eaux glacées pour l’éternité. Le temps se dilate, et laisse à la beauté de lentes harmonies le soin de nous apaiser.'