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December 26, 2003 From an interview with Roine in the fanclub magazine “World Of Adventures”:
Is
Daniel Gildenlow now an official member of the band?
Any
mood settings about the new album? From an interview with Jonas Reingold in the fanclub magazine “World Of Adventures”:
How
about Karmakanic 2?
What’s the line up this time?
Would that be any members of the Flower Kings? A More Recent Message from Jonas: Wish you all a merry christmas. I hope you all will grab the opportunity to relax and find peace among your loved ones. I will take a couple of days off now but will have the next Karmakanic cd ready in a 1-2 weeks. I have done a mix of one song already and I will add some small things to the other songs and mix of course. I will provide you with a sample shortly. The Name of the disc will be “Wheel of Life” with titles like: Masterplan, Do you tango? I would like to dance. Wheel of life, Sum of substance, Alex in paradise, etc. There will be 9 songs on the disc with a couple of long ones...I´m very pleased with the result so far and I feel that the material is more mature then the previous one. More complex and more naive, the lyrics are written by my second half in life, Inger Ohlèn. She´s a very talented writer and she will leave some thoughts for you to contemplate over, plus it´s nice for me to work with someone that close to me. From The Flower Kings website:
The
new album.
Swedish tour.
European Tour
New
DVD
Projects DJAM KARET’s 20th Anniversary in 2004, and New Releases info!
NEW RELEASES
NEARfest Records will be releasing Djam Karet's performance at the
2001 NEARfest! This digitally recorded release has been assembled and
mixed by the band over the last 6 months of 2003 at their own studios
and is a great portrait of Djam Karet live as it captures both the
energy and improvisational moments of the band's infrequent live
shows. For more details, please head on over to NearFest Record’s
website (http://www.nearfestrecords.com) Djam Karet will also be self-releasing a specially priced 2 CD set in honor of their 20 Year Anniversary that will be available direct from the band as well as a few independent specialty web based retailers. “No Commercial Potential & ... And Still Getting The Ladies” ties together the band's roots in improvisational rock as it presents the band's first cassette-only release of live direct to analog 8 track improvisations from 1985 (digitally mastered and transferred to CD) along with live in-the-studio improvisations recorded during the Night For Baku sessions in 2002. Heady energetic stuff that both shows their roots and breaks new ground! Both releases will be available through their website and for a limited time as fully autographed at no extra cost versions. Best way to stay on top of it is to join their mailing list on the Djam Karet website.
The
rest of 2004 will be spent writing and recording a (as yet untitled)
studio CD and companion DVD for release on Cuneiform in May of 2005.
There will be no live Djam Karet performances during 2004. 2005 is
another story... Uriah Heep In Holland
Classic Uriah Heep DVD
From the Byron era on DVD 2 DVD set and 48 page book featuring David Byron and Gary Thain
STRICTLY
LIMITED EDITION
Released January 30th
2004.
DISC 1 URIAH HEEP LIVE FROM 1974 AND 1975 Features the only known footage of the Byron /Box/Hensley/Kerslake/Wetton line up performing Return To Fantasy , Easy Livin' , Stealin' ', Prima Donna and Shady Lady . FULL TRACK LISTING DISC 1
Return To Fantasy '75 - Easy Livin' '75 - Stealin' '75 - Prima Donna
'75 - Shady Lady '75 - So Tired '74 - I Won't Mind '74 - The Easy Road
'74 - Love Machine '74 - Something or Nothing '74 - Love Machine '74 -
Rock'n'Roll Medley '74 DISC 2 COLLECTORS RARITIES FEATURING URIAH HEEP AND DAVID BYRON'S ROUGH DIAMOND FULL TRACK LISTING DISC 2 *
COLLECTORS RARITIES
BONUS
TRACKS
THE BOOK A specially written full colour 48 page book by Heep's current Executive Producer Bob Carruthers featuring previously unseen photographs, new interviews,... NEW DRUMMER FOR SUN CAGED !! After several auditions Sun Caged have found a new drummer. His name is Roel Van Helden, age 23, student at the academy of music in Tilburg, Netherlands. He surprised us with the fact that he managed to play the whole album within a week. Besides that, there is a very good chemistry between us and Roel, musically as well as on a personal level. We never played our songs that well before ! What's funny is the fact that Roel is already a member of Marcel's soloband and he is also the drummer our bassist Rob played with, at age 14, in his first band. We welcome Roel in the Cage, and we are sure that this has brought Sun Caged to a higher level. We also would like to thank all other drummers who showed interest, and we also hope that the true Sun Caged fans will welcome Roel with open arms, possibly at one of our upcoming gigs. Rob, Joost, Marcel, Andre and Roel !! Sun Caged Christmas and New Year wishes from the bands.
Rick Wakeman
Karnataka
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.
Isildurs Bane Isildurs Bane would like to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. We are grateful for your support and your interest in the band. Hopefully, we will see you on tour during 2004. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso
December 16, 2003
BEST BAND - Karnataka BEST CRS GIG - Steve Hackett http://www.classicrocksociety.com/ "OUT THERE: THE MOVIE"
Ben
Williams from Classic Pictures has sent a press release announcing a
new DVD starring Rick Wakeman and The New English Rock Ensemble:
Release Dates:
Ben
writes:
Rick Wakeman's return to YES in June of 2002 coincided with the
completion of the recording of "Out There," his first progressive rock
album with his own band for 26 years. In true Wakeman tradition, "Out
There" is a musical concept continued from where he left off in 1976
with his quest for the origins of all music with "No Earthly
Connection" which sold in excess of five million copies worldwide. The
highly anticipated concept movie "Out There" has been crafted together
with high-end computer graphics, studio recordings and outstanding
footage from the vaults of the NASA archives to create this, the very
first, "Progressive Rock DVD Album," presented in crisp
three-dimensional sound.
Special Features Include
Further Information
The
newest album from Guy Manning, "The View From My Window", is now
available via the
Enclave Online Store.
The players
Track listing
Sun
Caged parts ways with drummer Dennis Leeflang. For now, I'm focusing on my work for the Headway festival, which takes place in April 2004. It promises to become quite a party once again. I will be back with a new band next year, which I've already formed with a couple of friends. This will be something completely different. Keep an eye on www.thesaturnine.com. I would like to thank Lasse Mattson at Lion Music and the fans for their support. I also wish the guys in Sun Caged all the best for the future. Hope to see you all again, sometime, somewhere!
Cheers,
Sun Caged: Rob, Andre, Joost and Marcel, on behalf of Sun Caged. All vocalist names are announced for 'Ayreon: The Human Equation', scheduled for release May 2004. Devon Graves, Mike Baker, Eric Clayton, Magnus Ekwall, Heather Findlay, James LaBrie, Marcela Bovio, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Devin Townsend, Irene Jansen and Arjen Lucassen. There’s a studio report on them on www.arjenlucassen.com. As always Arjen Lucassen invites various guest-instrumentalists to play on his projects. For The Human Equation Arjen continued the theme of working with artists that had not yet appeared on an Ayreon projects. At this moment we can confirm three guests! Oliver Wakeman on keyboards. Arjen has played guitar on some of Oliver's work, and they've been good friends ever since. Joost van den Broek on keyboards and spinet . Most of you know Joost as the 'caped crusader' and magnificent keyboard-wizard on the Star One tour (and DVD). Joost is from the band Sun Caged. John McManus on flutes. John should be no stranger to fans of Arjen's work, as he is the flutist who previously performed on Ambeon. He plays various flutes on The Human Equation, among them the renowned low-flute.
The
Art of The Human Equation New album Work on Mark Hughes IQ biography, the IQ 20 DVD and material for the forthcoming IQ album continues. Martin Orford about the progress on the new album: "The writing of the new CD is a very slow process and there is still a lot to do, but the album is gradually taking shape. In fact I think the material that we have so far could be up there with our strongest ever, and I have a really good feeling about this record. We are looking to start recording the drums for three of the tracks (including one of the long ones) in the second week of January, and then we'll add the other instruments to those whilst we finish off the writing of other tracks which we will then start recording in February. The aim is to have everything recorded and mixed by the end of March for a release at the start of May." Baja Prog IQ will be playing live at the legendary Baja Prog festival in Mexico. For more information, click here. European tour dates are expected to follow when the next album will be released. John joins IQ Tribute Band on Stage in Japan At the end of October, John Jowitt visited Tokyo with Mark Westwood (bass tech and long time collaborator) Laurence Dyer (IQ lights) and Martin Ogden (Guitar and lighting tech) to see IQ-J the Japanese IQ tribute band play at the Silver Elephant in Tokyo.
Giant Electric Pea homepage
We want to present a new band from Holland THE DUST CONNECTION to you. This brand new progressive metalband arose from the ashes of FOREVER TIMES.
The
band: They just released their self-recorded demo-CD which contains four tracks (about 30 minutes of music). On their recently opened website http://www.thedustconnection.com you can read everything about the band, see a movie of the recordings and buy the demo-cd. Besides that, you can download two complete songs FOR FREE. They'd love to know what you think of their music, so feel free to sign the guestbook on their site or drop them an email at info@thedustconnection.com Dutch Progressive rock band Sanity have signed a contract with the French Musea Records for a worldwide distribution of their latest cd. The cd – already distributed in the Netherlands by Coast to Coast – will be brought to the market by Musea Records through 200 distributors and warehouses in more than 50 countries. The record label Musea Records is already 15 years in business, and mainly specialised in promotion of progressive rock, but also other genres. Musea’s catalogue currently includes about 2000 titles, of which 500 are self-released productions. Sanity plays plain symphonic, melodic rock with a metal touch. Emotion is an important part of the music, which is characterised by fierce up-tempo pieces, gentle parts and atmospheric, sensitive excesses that seamlessly follow up one another. The band receive very positive reviews from all over the globe and have already had airplay all around the world. Reviewers compare Sanity’s music to bands like IQ, Threshold, Marillion, Queensrÿche and Savatage, while they are hearing, amongst others, David Bowie, Bono (U2) and Rod Evens (Deep Purple) in singer Kees van Keulen’s tone.
Extensive reviews (and more) can be found at www.sanity.nl . Venue:
Date:
Strawbs
Univers Zero
Mike Keneally Band
Planet X
Pallas
Metamorfosi
And also:
Yezda Urfa, Hidria Spacefolk See www.nearfest.com December 05, 2003 ANGE undoubtedly was the most famous French band of the seventies, and « Tome VI” (1977), the major live album concerning this period. Nearly 26 years later, the eagerly awaited "En Concert - Par les Fils De Mandrin Millésimé 1977" is finally released! This live show is fully dedicated to the album “Par les fils de Mandrin” (1976). It’s the climax of the band’s success and creativity. By a strange coincidence, ANGE’s new tour will also be devoted to this album, the fifth by the band. If some fans thought that “Tome 87” wasn’t the best testimony of ANGE’s devastating power in concert, here we are! This excellent progressive manifesto is a perfect companion to the studio version and the English version.
True leader of the French Rock scene in the middle of the Seventies, ANGE could not be satisfied to have success only in his home land. Admittedly, the foreign public appreciated the group enormously, but much more for its "exotic" use of the French language than for its real talents of composition. That is the context which led the formation to produce "By The Sons Of Mandrin", literal translation of "Par Les Fils De Mandrin" (1976), one of the major opus of its discography. This is a true event in the career of ANGE, as this record remains its one and only with English lyrics. For reasons long lost and on which only perhaps charismatic Christian DECAMPS could raise a corner of the veil, this album was never released. It remained well at the bottom of the drawers of Universal, until the day Musea had the good idea to invest its time and its energy, to finally drag this jewel from the shadow. With the studio album and the recent "En Concert - Par Les Fils De Mandrin Millésimé 1977", you have here a trilogy which any amateur must have in his collection!
How do you capture the essence of live King Crimson on DVD? One answer is the new released Eyes Wide Open double disc-set, containing nearly five hours of live footage and featuring a pioneering way to enjoy the improvisational nature of King Crimson. Disc One captures a night in Tokyo, from King Crimson’s 2003 World Tour, the first live performances following the album ‘The Power To Believe’.
Disc Two
features extensive footage from the European Tour of Spring 2000 - the
music from the album "The Construkction of Light". This revolutionary
disc simulates a different concert experience every time - by randomly
drawing on a library of different improvisations with each viewing.
DVD1:
Live in Japan - Tokyo, Kouseinenkin Kaikan, April 16, 2003
DVD2:
Live at the Shepherds Bush Empire - London, July 3, 2000 Trey Gunn leaves King Crimson-Tony Levin returns Not only is Tony Levin available, he is now officially back in King Crimson. The news came a couple of days ago, that Tony was returning to fill Trey's spot. Actually, he never really left. Robert Fripp himself has called Tony the 5th member of Crim ever since the Double Duo formed. New creative work and touring will resume next spring. Long live the Crim....
King Crimson ColleKctive
'Field of Crows' is ready. Fish his new CD has arrived. The master is
at the plant and CD's are being made right now. Time to preorder - or
order this new gemm (about 20 euro) on the site. Because only fans can
hear it now. Retail has to wait till May 2004.
http://the-company.com/belgium/
MAGIC NIGHT (The Magician's Birthday 2003) Can Uriah Heep keep on getting better? ... Well judge for yourself... The Magician's Birthday Party is the annual Gala concert held in London every year to celebrate the music of a legendary band. Every year is a guaranteed sell out eagerly awaited by Heep fans worldwide. Every year we wonder if Heep can pull it off again. Well this year the boys did us proud with an awesome performance at the Astoria which has been rated as the best ever Magician's Birthday party. Each concert features a different take on the extensive Heep back catalogue. The stunning film of this year's party entitled MAGIC NIGHT is now complete.
Captured live before the capacity audience at the Astoria Theatre,
London on November 8th 2003. It's being made available as DVD/CD set in a limited edition deluxe package complete with a 24 page booklet featuring previously unseen images.
You
won't have to wait too long either... subscriber copies will be mailed
out on January 16th a
full two months before the official release date so order your copy
today!
Track list
http://www.uriahheepholland.com/ DVD - Lamentations - Live at Shepards Bush empireThe DVD contains both the mellow and heavy set with a running time of approximately an hour each, as well as a unique 65 minute documentary about the band with in depth focus on the recording of Deliverance and Damnation. It also includes excusive interviews with the band and producer.
Cover art: Travis
Smith
Track list
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