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December 26, 2002 A Christmas present from SAGA! As promised SAGA have for you 3 samples from their forthcoming album "MARATHON". The samples are 1:20 in length and are taken from the following tracks: "Marathon", "You Know I Know (Chapter 12)" and "Streets of Gold (Chapter 14)" ... Enjoy these samples, they will only be availble December 25, 26, and 27th! The samples can be found through www.saga-world.com or at www.worldsapart.ca/marathon/
SAGA'S LATEST STUDIO ALBUM "MARATHON" AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 17, 2003! 2003 Euro Tour With A.C.T & Ray Wilson (Genesis) "Journey to the Centre of the Eye", "A Tab in the Ocean" and "Recycled" set to be remastered in February 2003!! Following long discussions with Bellaphon Records it now looks pretty certain that February 2003 will see Roye Albrighton in a mastering studio in London to oversee the remastering of "A Tab in the Ocean" and "Recycled". These albums will be remastered from the original master tapes. In the case of "Tab", the original German mix from 1972 and the the US Mix from 1976 will be added to this single CD. Nektar's first album "Journey to the Centre of the Eye" will be faithfully remixed from the original 8-track master tapes, retaining all original balances, to give the album a new clarity and the single "Do You Believe in Magic" b/w "1-2-3-4" will be added. "1-2-3-4" is the original studio recording and this version has never appeared on CD. The albums look set for a release in late April 2003. More updates, including reports from the mastering sessions, will appear as soon as we have more news. 2002 has been a momentous year for Nektar, albeit somewhat tempered by the cancellation of UK and German concerts. We are in negotiation to arrange shows in 2003 for Europe and the USA and to begin recording on a new studio album which will be the first to feature the original Nektar line-up since 1975!!
Danny Cavanagh will give a free concert in Apeldoorn on Saturday December 28th. There will be a lot of Anathema songs, real old doomtracks who will get a piano version, and some covers. There probibly will be covers from Nick Drake (his big favourite), Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Dire Straits; Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac,… so it will be worth attending. One of his brothers will assist him during some songs. I suppose it will be bassist Jamie, who lives in the neighbourhood. Place to be : Rockcafé Ozzy, Hoofdstraat 162, 7311 BC Apeldoorn The gig starts at 21:30.
Message from The Gathering: We are really proud to tell you our new album ‘Souvenirs’ (psyn 0004) is finished! Throughout the last 2 years we worked on 20 songs, which 3 of them were released on our miniCD ‘Black Light District’ (psyn0003), released this summer. The band celebrated their 12½ years of making music, and signed a deal with Psychonaut records, the bands own imprint record label. Because of the huge success of this miniCD (11.500 copies sold worldwide!) we decided to release our new full length ‘Souvenirs’ on Psychonaut too. ‘Souvenirs’ will be out in Europe the 24th of February 2003 in Europe, and rest of the world will follow the 12th of March. The album will contain the following 10 tracks: -These Good People -Souvenirs -Even The Spirits Are Afraid -We Just Stopped Breathing -Broken Glass -Golden Grounds -Monsters -Jelena -You Learn About It -A Life All Mine What can we say? We think we made the best Gathering record ever. ‘Souvenirs’ breathes a modern, dark and gloomy sound in which we tried to reach a perfect musical balance between organic and electronic sounds, without forgetting the atmospherically, psychedelic attitude. Together with producer Zlaya Hadzich (Sonic Youth, Motorpsycho, Low, Agrésion) we streamlined a mere 55 minutes of pure music, with help from some people, like Trickster G (Ulver), who sings the song ‘A life all mine’ together with Anneke. We tried to escape the pigeonhole of nowadays music, and made an album bending modern sounds into beautiful, experimental and emotional music. Diversity and unity together. We think we succeeded. Hope you think the same. Of course we will promote the album with an extensive tour through Europe and the rest of the world. The first leg of the European tour will start half March, which will bring us in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland and Czech republic. In May we will do the Benelux and a lot of festivals. The second leg of the European tour will bring us to Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Mexico and Greece, though we have no confirmed dates yet. Fact is 2003 will be a year full of touring. The Gathering wishes you a happy Christmas and a superb 2003! Hope to see you all!!! The whole Pallas-site is being revamped in preparation for the forthcoming DVD release,"The Blinding Darkness" with all the previous features and more returning in January Artwork for the DVD:
February 14th will see the release of John Wetton's new album, "Rock of Faith", through Giant Electric Pea label. Recorded with John Mitchell on guitar and Steve Christey hitting the skins, and featuring a lot of friends - ASIA's Geoffrey Downes and Clive Nolan of Pendragon and ARENA, ELO's Hugh McDowell and IT BITES' Francis Dunnery, Ian McDonald of KING CRIMSON and FOREIGNER fame and Wetton's lifelong lyricist friend Richard Palmer-James.
1. Mondrago - 2. Rock Of Faith - 3. A New Day - 4. I've Come To Take You Home - 5. Who Will Light a Candle? - 6. Nothing's Gonna Stand In Our Way - 7. Altro Mondo - 8. I Believe In You - 9. Take Me To The Waterline - 10. I Lay Down - 11. When You Were Young Yes, you will be able get your hands on remastered versions (plus bonus tracks) of Yes' first four albums; this coming to you from Rhino Records beginning in January 2003. Here are the bonuses for each album: Yes:
"Everydays" (single version), "Dear Father" (early version #2,
previously unreleased), "Something's Coming," "Everydays" (early
version #1, previously unreleased), "Dear Father" (early version #1,
previously unreleased), and "Something's Coming" (early version,
previously unreleased).
(Source: progressiveworld )
December 18, 2002 On February 12 in Laredo Texas, Santana will start his big world tour to promote his recently released album “Shaman”. After 5 concerts on American grounds, Santana will take the plane direction “down under” for some gigs in Australia, New Zeeland and Singapore. On August 27, the European part of the tour will start in Helsinki, Finland. The guitar master won’t stop in our country but he will play in Rotterdam (Ahoy – 8/9) and Paris (Palais Omnisports – 12/9). Before that Santana will play in Oslo, together with Suede, Willie Nelson and Röyksopp, in front of Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter. (source: Billboard).
Camel BLACKEST EYES SINGLE The first single from "In Absentia" will be a slightly edited version of "Blackest Eyes". "IN ABSENTIA" EUROPEAN RELEASE "In Absentia" will be issued throughout most of Europe on Jan 13th, with some countries following a week later. As with the US release the first pressing will be a strictly limited edition. This time the limited version will take the form of a double CD with the bonus disc containing 2 extra tracks from the sessions, "Drown With Me" and "Chloroform", as well as the video edit of "Strip the Soul". A double vinyl edition of the album is also scheduled for release early in the year.
IN ABSENTIA
TOUR DATES
Mar 03
2003 Dublin, Ireland: Temple Bar Music Centre
Bassist and
composer Sean Malone's Gordian Knot
project makes a welcome return to the recording scene early next year
with the release of Emergent on the Sensory label. Emergent is
the second Gordian Knot release and Malone has assembled a stellar
group of musicians for one of the most highly anticipated progressive
releases of the last few years.
The tribute to Rob Rehorst on december 27 has been postponed to a later date. But there will be 3 bands to give a gig that night in the same venue. (the Bazart in Den Haag, Holland): 1) November, 25 minutes acoustic symfo from the band that became known from their CD “The First Of November”(1994), who especially for this evening will play together again. (They also play in the Spirit of 66 in Verviers on December 29th). 2) Mangrove, 50 minutes modern symphonic rock from a new band from Holland from Apeldoorn. They have a demo CD entitled “Massive Hollowness” and will release their first official sympho album early 2003. 3) Plackband, 50 minutes real seventies symfo. Their CD “After The Battle” not only does very well in Holland, but sells very well in other countries. That’s why this band will make their debut abroad in the Spirit of 66 in Verviers in Belgium on December 29th. Since the spirit is “the place to be” for symphonic rock bands in Belgium, it’s important to get ready for it and play well on this evening in the Bazart. Ian Parry: The Consortium Project III
At this
moment the following parts for the new Consortium III album are
finished.
December 08, 2002 Third act for the Marathon tour. Not only Saga and A.C.T will perform on the European Marathon tour of Saga, but now also Ray Wilson has been confirmed.
Digital
Marathon Tickets
Marathon
Track Listing Several interesting items are scheduled to be released in (hopefully) 2003, including the IQ20 DVD, an extensive IQ biography by Mark Hughes, a new studio album and the re-recorded version of 'Tales from the Lush Attic'. For more details, please visit the official website at http://www.gep.co.uk/iq/ Martin Orford has been very busy doing the pre-production work on the to be re-recorded version of 'Tales from the Lush Attic', as well as some fine new material for the forthcoming Jadis album, which is progressing nicely. On top of that he recently did some flute on John Wetton's new CD 'Rock of Faith', and this is likely to come out on GEP some time in February, though a deal hasn't been finalised just yet. Martin also played some flute and keyboards on a track for Terry Sullivan from Renaissance, though no release details about his solo project are known yet. The Official IQ Page features the following new items: - Update by Peter Nicholls (December 2002) - downloadable MP3 of Awake and Nervous live at Whitchurch 2000 - downloadable Windows Media movie of The Darkerst Hour live at Whitchurch 2000 Check it all out at http://www.gep.co.uk/iq Steve's amazing new live show, SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH AMERICA, is soon to be released and is a real audio/visual treat, featuring his incredibly talented (if not good-looking) live band. The 105 minutes of concert footage shot at Buenos Aires' Teatro Coliseo on the last South American tour includes a wide selection of favourite material from both Hackett and ‘that other band’, together with several previously unheard songs road tested here for the first time. Click on the link to hear a taster of the tracks in MP3 format: http://www.mp3.com/Hackett
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH AMERICA will be available in 4 different formats, with staggered release dates (due to production quality issues delaying the European DVD edition)
* 9th
December 2002 - A VHS Video (PAL & NTSC versions) and a 2-CD digipack
are set for release on this date, and will be available
exclusively from the website:
http://www.stevehackett.com and then * 27th January 2003 - The long awaited release of the European DVD edition, which will comprise the DVD PLUS 2 audio CDs covering the whole concert, all in a 3 disc boxed digipack.
featuring...
The DVD is in
Region 0/NTSC format to ensure playback on the vast majority of
systems worldwide. Go here for further information: http://www.stevehackett.com/somewhere/
December 01, 2002 There’s some very exciting news for Collage fans. Collage will be playing live together again for the first time in 5 years! The concert will be a part of progressive rock festival which will be on December 14, 2002 in Katowice, Poland. Unfortunately, Collage will not be playing a full length concert. They did not play together for a very long time and they do not have enough time to prepare a full length concert. They will only play 2 or 3 old songs and 2 new songs. The concert will be 30 - 45 min. long. Other bands playing at the festival include Talath Dirnen (the former band of Darek Lisowki from Satellite!), Quidam, Bronx and Ice Machine. If you would be interested in attending the festival, you will get info at info@satelliteprog.com
Landmarq are pleased to announce the arrival of Gonzalo Carrera as the band's new keyboard player. For the last three years, Gonzalo has been the keyboard player for 'Yes' tribute band, 'Fragile'. (See below for a brief biography on Gonzalo). Tracy Hitchings: "...As much as we will miss Steve, we knew it was important to find a replacement as soon as possible but didn't think we would be fortunate in finding a suitable player so quickly. We have a great deal to do in bringing Gonzalo 'up to speed' with both old and new material, but he is raring to go and we're looking forward to continuing our plans for world domination (haha!)..." Welcome, Gonzalo!
Now available
Coming soon!
The recording of the new Kayak album 'Merlin- Bard of the Unseen' is well on the way. This is the expected tracklisting of the new CD:
1. Merlin They will be touring in Holland between the end of January and May 2003. Ton Scherpenzeel is expected to play on the next Camel album that will feature old, acoustically reworked Camel material. Shakary is currently writing material for a new album. The working title is "Bax" and is based on lyrics written by Michael, and contains nine songs. As usual they hope to have lots of interesting guests. They will definitely have several singers for the different characters...
Mario Krag
has a demo of his own band out; the material tends in the Dream
Theatre direction, but influences of AOR and Prog are also a strong
component. We are recording the new Maschera Di Cera CD entitled "Il Grande Labirinto" at the ZERODIECI studios in Genoa. The CD will be available by February 2003 on MELLOW RECORDS label You can download the new single taken from LA MASCHERA DI CERA forthcoming new album "Il grande labirinto" La Maschera Di Cera project began in 1991 with the composition of the song with the same title by Fabio Zuffanti ( bass player with Finisterre and Hostsonaten ) .This song has been rearranged through the years finding a final version only in 2001 when Zuffanti decides to form a group to recreate the glorious tradition of Italian progressive of the '70, especially the sound of groups such as Museo Rosenbach, Biglietto Per L' inferno and Balletto Di Bronzo In 2001 Zuffanti is joined by a group of musicians like the Finisterre keyboards player Agostino Macor , the ex Finisterre drummer Marco Cavani , the singer Alessandro Corvaglia ( he plays the role of Merlin on Merlin rock opera ) and the flute player Andrea Monetti ( also in the last incarnation of the legendary German group Embryo)
The first 10 bands for Sweden Rock Festival, June 6-8th, 2003 are:
Pennsylvania progressive stalwarts Echolyn are preparing a 3CD boxed set to be released late 2002. The set will contain remastered material from the band's first eponymous CD, the 4-song EP "And Every Blossom" and the 1996 release "When the Sweet Turns Sour." Previously the band offered a remastered version 1992's "Suffocating the Bloom," but for the other now-unavailable albums, the band has decided to package them all together in a boxed set, complete with an extensive booklet recounting the early years of the band's history. The set will also include some previously unreleased material. The title of the set is "A Little Nonsense: Now and Then" and is currently being pressed. The artwork for the set is in progress and should include a ton of Echolyn memorabilia and photographs.
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