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March 24, 2003 Extra date:
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with Rick Wakeman.
Online presales start on
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on March 25th . Neal Morse - The Transatlantic Demos
At
the suggestion of Mike Portnoy, Neal has put together a disc of demos
and a few clips from his hand held cassette recorder from as far back
as 1992 and up into 2000. Neal says "I think the coolest thing about
this CD is that you get to hear what I originally brought to the guys,
which shows you where they took it. I was real surprised when I
listened back. I had forgotten all the different turns the music took
and it was really fun listening to it again." A fascinating look
inside the mind of the man who has been the driving force behind the
best prog of the last 10 years, this release is a must have for all
Transatlantic
fans.
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Hanging In The Balance (18:01)
Total Time (62:36) THURSDAY APRIL 10, 20.00h: An Evening with TERRY BOZZIO, SOLODRUMS in concert Zaal Casino on the Grote Markt in Diest (Belgium)
TERRY BOZZIO
was born on December 27, 1950 in San Francisco. Very fast, he has
become a very established musician in the alternative scene, fusion
and symphonic rock. The style of Bozzio is full of unusual rhythm tempos and wayward musical passages, a pleasure to watch and listen to. CREDITS:
Bozzio is standing at the top of the world since the end of the
seventies when he performed the complex drums for Frank Zappa. (The
Black Page). Since then he played in a lot of different bands amongst
them you find UK, The Brecker Brothers and Jeff Beck.
But
also Iggy Pop, Duran Duran, Mick Jagger and Deborah Harry could count
on his skills. http://www.adams-music.be/belgium/drumfestival2003.htm Message from the website of Ayreon: We've just intercepted a top-secret message from an Intergalactic Space Crusader agent, so we can now reveal to you the full track listing of Star One's 'Live on Earth' double live CD and bonus DVD prior to arrival in the stores.
We're still trying to decode another special message related to the
DVD bonus materials. However, there are persistent rumours these
extras contain rare video footage capturing the arrival of the
Intergalactic Crew in locations other than Rijssen! Stay tuned for
info.
Bonus DVD: Intro/Lift Off - Set Your Controls - High Moon – Dreamtime - Eyes of Time - Songs of the Ocean - Dawn of a Million Souls - The Dream Sequencer - Keyboard solo - Into the Black Hole - Actual Fantasy - Valley of the Queens - Isis and Osiris - Amazing Flight in Space - Bass solo - Intergalactic Space Crusaders - Castle Hall - The Eye of Ra – Starchild - The Two Gates March 12, 2003 Dream Theater has entered the studio on Monday, March 10th, 2003, to write and record a new studio album.
Mike Portnoy's Yellow Matter Custard
At the launch show for Keith Emerson's 'Emerson Plays Emerson' piano album last April, Lee Jackson (bass and vocals) and Brian Davison (drums) joined Keith on stage for three instrumentals.
Later in 2002 they played four dates around the UK which were recorded and will provide the source for a live album later this year. Now a longer tour is planned. So far UK dates are confirmed but other European countries (and further afield) are in the planning stage.
Wed 08 Oct 2003 Cambridge Corn Exchange (01223) 357 851 Source: www.users.waitrose.com/~douganderson/elp/nicenews.htm Radio Caroline - Radio Caroline's 'Toward The Unknown Region' programme hosted by Chris B will be featuring a Karnataka special on Monday March 10th (starts midnight GMT) . The programme will be repeated as part of an omnibus edition the following Saturday/Sunday (March 16 when Karnataka will be featured from 0100 am GMT). Also on Radio Caroline next week is the chance to win a signed Karnataka CD on Gary Fosster's 'Eternal Fusion' show. Listen in on March 14th (9.00 pm to midnight GMT). You can listen to Radio Caroline via the Dutch webcast (48Kbps stream) by following this link www.anorak.telinco.co.uk/listen/player365.htm or visit the Radio Caroline website for other options www.radio-caroline.nl.
LYNX MUSIC is a new small independent progressive label from Poland. The owner of Lynx Music is Ryszard Kramarski, art rock fan of 70-ties and neoprogressive bands. He is a musician; keyboard-player, composer, author of lyrics. Ryszard is a leader of two groups: FRAMAURO and MILLENIUM.
Lynx Music Company is orientated for releasing CDs with prog-rock,
art-rock. Besides Framauro and Millenium CDs we’d like to release
other titles of Polish scene.
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Framauro: Etermedia; Pre-Millenium band Homepage: http://www.lynxmusic.pl Management: adam.art@poczta.fm Derek Sherinian's Black Utopia The new track listing and album info has been posted for Derek Sherinian's latest album 'Black Utopia' which will be released in April.
Track list.
Musicians. Spyral signed to ProgRock Records Progrock Records: “We are happy to announce that German band Spyral is part of our family. Spyral has a heavier sound and is quite enjoyable to listen to.”
Even though Progressive Rock enables musicians to weave any kind of
music they appreciate into the fabric of their own compositions, many
excellent Prog Bands tend to rely on a small choice of patterns that
have become trade marks of this genre. At the same time, with their
virtuoso performance, they often seem to address themselves to an
audience which is highly sophisticated.
Homepage:
http://www.spyralized.de Chain signed to ProgRock Records
The
story of Chain is not your average "formed-a-band-recorded-an-album"
story. Chain was formed in 1994 by keyboardist Stephan Kern Bach.
Drummer Thorsten Hannig and bassist Christian Becker were 15 years old
back then and naturally you would assume they wouldn't be ready to
play progressive rock, but these kids could play. Henning Pauly was
the fourth member, on guitar. The band rehearsed for a year and wrote
a lot of material, but could never find a vocalist, so they split up.
The only proof of their existence was a tape recorded during a
rehearsal. Years passed and Henning moved to Boston to study at
Berklee College of Music where he studied arranging and music
synthesis, writing big band music, pop, rock, ambient etc. After his
studies he moved to Los Angeles and started producing a variety of
artists. One day he found the Chain tape and listened he couldn't
believe that after all these years he knew every single note and that
the themes really worked, so he decided to produce an album that
should have been produced 8 years earlier. He spent most of 2002
working on "RECONSTRUCT". In December he found the missing link in the
chain, Matt Cash, an amazing vocalist who adds a flavour to the music
which is somewhat unusual for progressive rock. Henning discovered
after years of writing and arranging that he forgot where his true
passion lies: progressive rock - heavy guitars, driving rhythms,
complex arrangements, great vocal harmonies, epic story.
Homepage:
http://www.jinglegroup.com/chain.html Aaron English signed to ProgRock Records If you are a fan of Peter Gabriel, Dave Matthews Band, Robbie Robertson or some world music, you are gonna love Aaron English. From the first few notes of Sea of Nectar I was totally hooked, and much to my pleasant surprise we were able to sign Aaron up on our label. Make sure to request them over at ProgRock.com and pick yourself up a copy of the album here Aaron English - All The Waters Of This World
All
the Waters of This World is the self-produced debut album from
Seattle-based piano-vocalist Aaron English. His style is rock, but
progressive and cosmopolitan: "world-beat" in the vein of Peter
Gabriel, Paul Simon, and Sting. The scope of the album is epic, the
five-piece band often augmented by full string orchestrations, Middle
Eastern or West African drum ensembles, a mariachi band, hurdy-gurdy
through a wah-wah pedal or didjeridu layered with programmed beats.
Homepage:
http://www.aaronenglish.com/ June 6-8, 2003 The Sweden Rock Festival booked the following bands:
YES (UK)
MOTÖRHEAD (UK) Heep Market
On
July 5th 2003, at the Uriah (s)Heep market, in Langbroek, Holland, the
Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep has prepared 12 great tracks to enter the studio. They are still negotiating with different companies. They are expected to record during the month May.
Rob Corich from Terrapine tells us that 2 more albums from the
remastered Expanded version “Look At Yourself” and “Demons and
Wizards” via BMG are released.
http://www.uriahheepholland.com March 02, 2003 A message from Roine Stolt: “I'm currently wrapping up the new Kaipa CD's overdubs etc. Plus Andy Tillison and I are putting the final touches on 'The Tangent' project CD's mastering and artwork. Both are due out this summer on Inside Out As you may have guessed I'm also into editing of the new DVD film and the needed overdubs, Hasse's voice ( he had 'flu' at the actual recording), plus a few other slipping notes and chords ;-) Overall the audio sounds very good and with a minor touch up it will come out just great - maybe even a 5.1 mix .!!!.”
At the end of January 2003 Roine announced to
the Flower Kings mailing list that they were all invited to be part of
the studio audience during the bands DVD recording, which was held on
Monday, February 10th at the Uppsala Stadsteater in Uppsala, Sweden.
Approx set filmed length 3 hours! The great thing was seeing the 'mad' percussionist Hasse Bruniusson playing with them for the first time making, with (Pain Of Salvation's) Daniel Gildenlow, a 7-piece TFK. Unfortunately Saxophonist Ulf Wallander already had a concert commitment that day or it would have been 8! All in all they played for around 6 hours with full retakes of The Truth / Humanizzimo and a couple of sections of GOD. Add to that a couple of un-filmed practice jams.... A great time was had by all.
For a full report on this event, complete with a photo album, Click Here.
We’ve just received a special message from Star
One headquarters for Space Metallers and Ayreonauts everywhere! Though
many stargazers gathered to witness the landing of the Intergalactic
Space Crusaders for a few performances on earth, we know there are a
lot of you who were unable to see and hear it with your own eyes and
ears. As you may know by now our special agents made high quality
sound recordings of the interstellar band's touch down, and they had
even set up a few cameras to capture this spectacular event on video.
The footage has been collected, examined and will be released to the
public on a double live CD and bonus region-free DVD called 'Live on
Earth'.
All artwork for the CD is once again provided by Mattias Norèn (http://www.progart.com). Ayreon website. ( www.ayreon.com )
As you probably already have noticed, the new
website is online! :-)
IQ have now started work on writing the follow-up to “The Seventh House”. Although it’s early days yet, they are off to a promising start, and a release in Autumn 2003 is planned, with a likely European tour to promote the CD. Most of the band members are getting kitted out with the amazing Pro Tools hard-disk recording software for Apple Mac computer, and this will enable writing ideas to be exchanged much more easily and quickly.
Martin: "The writing rehearsal which took place mid Feb went quite well though Pete and John couldn't make it. However we got quite a lot done, and in particular some fairly old but previously unused ideas that I've been working on and adding to at home are shaping up very nicely with the band. The current plan would seem to be to have the album written more or less by the start of August and start recording then. We would then be looking at having it available for a tour in November." Since reaction to the proposed re-recording of “Tales From The Lush Attic” has been overwhelmingly in favour, Martin Orford has begun the pre-production work on this project. Martin reports that “it’s already starting to sound great, just with keyboards and guide tracks, so it should be phenomenal when the rest of the band get involved. I have already done most of the work on "The Last Human Gateway" and "The Enemy Smacks". There is currently no definite time-scale for the re-recording of “Tales”, but the band members are likely to fit it in with their other commitments whenever possible. There are no plans to withdraw the original version of “Tales” once the new recordings are available. Mike Holmes is continuing to make good progress with the proposed “IQ 20” DVD. Mike is sifting through video footage taken from the 20th anniversary show in London last year, and also from this year’s European tour, and he is confident that a great DVD can be compiled from the material he has. The release of this DVD is expected to take place later this year, with "Forever Live" being the most probable next DVD project. A word from the guys from Spock’s Beard: Greetings all Beard fans and welcome to the new web site! (www.spocksbeard.com ) It's definitely been a wild ride over the past year, but things are slowly smoothing out. We know there hasn't been much information from the band in a while, but that's all going to change, slowly but surely. There is SO much to take care of, but we're all getting back to the music, which is where we love to be. Keep coming back to the site for frequent updates, photo's, stories, video, and lots-o-music! We started cutting tracks for a new Beard album in January. We went back to Lawnmower and Garden Supply Studios, where we always record. Rich Mouser is once again making the sounds magical. As of right now, we're in overdub land, doing vocals, guitar and keyboard tracks. Everybody in the band is giving more then ever before for this new record and it's a lot of fun to hear and see. We're planning to have the record out this June. We' re also going to try and do a few shows when the record is released, and then a full tour in September/October. WE CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY!!! It has been way to long and we are all chomping at the bit to get out there. The music on the new record is going to be a blast to perform!!! - That's all for now and thanks for all of your support... Al, Dave, Ryo, and Nick Spock's Beard signed with Inside Out Music America. The new album is targeted to be released in June, 2003. Click here for the complete press release
The New Arena EP - "Contagious"
The first of the two special EPs will be
available very soon. Arena will be selling it during their tour in
April, and it will reach the shops in May. There's plenty of
interesting stuff on there so don't miss out. The contents of
"Contagious" are as follows: More Competition! Yes, here's yet another chance to win a prize! This time, you can win a copy of the new Arena EP, "Contagious". Simply go to www.verglas.com/arenaworld/competition.html and answer a simple question. The deadline for this competition is Friday 21st March Clive Nolan - "Skeletons In The Cupboard" The album is currently being pressed and will be available during the Arena tour in April. |
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