Album: The Inconsolable Secret Deluxe Edition
Artist: Glass Hammer
2013 Sound Resources/BMI
CD: SR3126

Band members:
Fred Schendel: keys, electric guitar, steel guitar, vocals
Steve Babb: keys, bass, vocals
Walter Moore: vocals
Susie Bogdanowicz: vocals
Matt Mendians: drums

With:
Sarah Snyder: featured soprano
Bethany Warren: backing vocals, girls choir
Flo Paris: vocals (3, 13)
Eric Parker: acoustic guitar
Laura Lindstrom Davis: vocals (7)
David Carter: lead guitar (3)
Stephanie Rumpza: recorder, choir
Tom Hammett: featured tenor
Haley McGuire, Summer Hullender, Emily Hammett, Natalie Pitman: girls choir
The Inconsolable Symphony and Choir featuring the Adonia String Trio
    Rebeccca James: violin
    Susan Whitacre: viola
    Rachel Beckmann: cello
    Randall Williams: conductor

Additional disc 3 personnel:
Jon Davison: vocals (14, 15)
Kamran Alan Shikoh: electric guitar (15, 17), classical guitar (15, 17)
Johnny Bruhns: electric guitar (14)
David Wallimann: electric guitar (18)
Donna Curry: flute (14, 18)
Kelly Luther Stultz: alto choral singer
Josh Greene: baritone choral singer


Produced by Babb/Schendel
Mastering by Bob Katz
Art by Roger Dean
Layout & design by Sound Resources
Disc 3 remix by Schendel with Babb


Tracks:
CD1: The Knights
1. "A Maker of Crowns" (15:21)
2. "The Knight of the North" (24:39)

CD2: The Lady
3. "Long and Long Ago" (10:23)
4. "The Morning She Woke" (5:36)
5. "Lirazel" (4:30)
6. "The High Place" (3:33)
7. "Morrigan's Song" (2:23)
8. "Walking Toward Doom" (2:06)
9. "Mog Ruith" (2:03)
10. "Through a Glass Darkly" (6:55)
11. "The Lady Waits" (5:46)
12. "The Mirror Cracks" (2:12)
13. "Having Caught a Glimpse" (13:23)

CD3: Remix
14. "Long and Long Ago" (10:23)
15. "The Morning She Woke" (5:36)
16. "A Maker of Crowns" (15:21)
17. "The Knight of the North" (24:39)
18. "Having Caught a Glimpse" (13:23)

Music by Schendel/Babb
Lyrics by Babb
Based on "The Lay of Lirazel" by Babb
Latin and Elvish lyrics by Rumpza
Choral arrangements by Schendel/Babb/Mike Rumpza
Arrangements for orchestra by Schendel/Babb


Notes: The Inconsolable Secret was initially released in 2005 and the first two CDs here are that release. However, after the album's release, Schendel and Babb were unhappy with the finished product, feeling that the production approach. Schendel wrote:
One conscious decision we had made (largely at my insistence, if I recall) was to mix the album in a very raw, unprocessed way. I felt that approach would help give the album a classic vibe. Also, we carefully avoided a lot of overdubbing, especially of keyboards, in an attempt to give the album a live feel, and looked to the orchestration to add the extra fullness and color. That was fine as far as it went but again, in hindsight, we clearly realized that was not the only approach to the material and there might be considerable merit in pursuing a more typical approach - that is, to make the production as big as the concept.
From 2008, Schendel began remixing the project. The album had been recorded with minimal guitar (Schendel on (1) and Carter on (3)), but for the new version, Schendel added acoustic guitar to "almost every song" and the band recruited various electric guitarists. Schendel also recorded some additional keyboard parts. A couple of tracks had always been envisioned with a high clear tenor voice, so the band looked for someone online, approaching Jon Davison. Which is how Davison came to join Glass Hammer.

Davison would record 3 albums with Glass Hammer, however, before this new version of The Inconsolable Secret came out. (HP, 11 Mar 18). 
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