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September 29, 2004 Liveosity
Pendragon are releasing a
"combo"
package of the “Acoustically Challenged” CD plus the “Live At Last
...And More” DVD in one double CD case, it is
going under the name of “Liveosity”
and it will be released on
October 25th.
New album
Criminal Record
"Songs From Tsongas"
DVD at PLAY.COM The Making of Snow DVD This DVD (made up of footage shot on camcorders and edited by Phil Satterley) is at the least an interesting view into the making of a classic prog album; at the most it will make the viewer feel a part of the band, a sharer of the experience...and what an experience it is!
Here's what Neal Morse said about it:
THE
MAKING OF SNOW, Filmed by Neal Morse and Jim Harrel
Plus:
DOLBY DIGITAL SOUND The list of
bands for Nearfest 2005 on July 9 and 10, next year is slowly growing.
The festival will take place at the Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, USA.
Following bands have already confirmed:
Coastproggers IQ are the first band to be offered a second
bite at winning the Yankee crowd over. September 23, 2004 On ‘progwereld’, you can find a unique contest. One of their readers can win a ‘meet and greet” with Rush. This will occur on October 1st when they play in Ahoy in Rotterdam. More info on www.progwereld.org/wedstrijden/rush2004.htm
InsideOut Music
Two albums of the complete works by the Dutch Arjen Anthony Lucassen
aka “Ayreon” are much favoured by his fans: this is -- apart from the
rock opera „The Human Equation“ which was released in May -- the
stylistically and conceptionally similar forerunner project “Into The
Electric Castle”, released in 1998. On both albums Lucassen perfectly
merges -- together with top-class guest musicians -- progressive rock,
folk and metal elements. As the second release of InsideOut’s reissue
series of all Ayreon albums the double album “Into The Electric
Castle” will be re-released as a special edition. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do Janet Jackson and the FLOWER KINGS have in common? Nothing, one would like to say. But not a bit of it! Roine Stolt and his boys have experienced their own “Nipplegate“, too: A chain of retail shops in the traditionally conservative Middle West of the US found the cover of the new album “Adam & Eve“ too hot because “Eve“ showed more of herself than self-appointed guardians of their virtues wanted to expect of their customers. So especially for the US edition of the album InsideOut placed a sticker on the upper part of “Eve’s“ body – of course a sticker which is easy to remove!
www.flowerkings.se ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the end of the 70s the American band HAPPY THE MAN released two
highly acclaimed prog rock albums on the Arista label. Now they are
back almost with the original line-up. Happy The Man play as
sophisticated as Gentle Giant, as melodiously and harmonically as
Camel, as well as in the same secluded and contemplative manner as the
Penguin Café Orchestra, without sounding classical in any way. The
musicians around HTM mastermind, guitar player and founder member Stan
Whitaker also add a little bit of jazz to the carefully arranged
instrumental songs on the comeback album “The Muse Awakens“ as we know
it of Canterbury groups like Henry Cow or Soft Machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ex-Spock’s Beard NEAL MORSE has finished the work on his new album “One“. It will be released as a regular edition as well as a special edition digi-book plus bonus disc. The CD also features Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater, Transatlantic, OSI) on drums and bass player Randy George. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an addition to their new album “Be“, PAIN OF SALVATION will release a DVD with the same title at the end of the year. It’s featuring a stage version of this thematic work which the Swedish have brought to the stage with the support of an orchestra in their home town Eskilstuna in summer 2003. There will also be a few more PoS gigs this year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The special edition of the new ANYONE’S DAUGHTER longplayer “Wrong“ features – apart from an extended booklet – two bonus live tracks recorded by the radio station SWR 1 at the Hermann Hesse town Calw in 2002. There the band performed at a concert in honour of the poet. With their album “Piktors Verwandlungen“ (1981), a musical version of Hesse’s fairy tale of the same name, Anyone’s Daughter had released their masterpiece, according to many of their fans. The new album "Wrong" will be released on September the 27th, by the way also the birthday by keyboardplayer Matthias Ulmer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ENCHANT: “Live at Last”
(release as double CD and double DVD), release: Oktober 25th
ARENA: ”Live & Life”, release: Oktober 4th
www.verglas.com As many of you know by now, our two shows at the London Astoria shows in July were filmed for a DVD. They are pleased to announce that "Marbles On The Road" will be released in October. There will be two versions: a 1-DVD version will be released to retail shops across Europe on October 11th, and an extended 2-DVD Racket Records version should be available from October 18th through our website. We're very excited by these DVDs - they had a full film crew (with 15 cameras on various dollies and cranes), PLUS the DVDs are the first new DVD releases to be mixed in 5.1 surround sound, so they look and sound amazing. Track listings and technical details for both versions are available at
To promote "Marbles On The Road", they are also planning to release the live version of "The Damage" taken from the DVD as their first stab at getting a Number One single in the new UK Download Chart! They hope to release this on October 4th - the price to download the single will be 99p, but unfortunately they don't have any more information than that at this time; please don't email them with questions - they promise to keep you updated when there's more information. GUY MANNING IS SIGNED TO PROGROCK RECORDS AND RELEASES "A Matter of Life & Death"
Guy Manning is primarily a storyteller and a writer of songs. A modern
day troubadour, who chooses to compose songs that have strong
melodies, depth and interesting emotive arrangements in order to tell
his tales. Roger Waters, the co-founder and primary songwriter of the legendary rock band Pink Floyd, has written and recorded two important new songs, "To Kill The Child" and "Leaving Beirut," The two new Roger Waters songs will be made available on a variety of digital music stores--including SonyConnect, iTunes, BuyMusic, MusicMatch, MusicNet, MusicNow, Napster, Real/Rhapsody, and Walmart.com. Roger Waters fans may hear streaming versions of "To Kill The Child" and "Leaving Beirut" on Waters website, www.roger-waters.com . Original artwork and lyrics for the songs may be found on the website in addition to Real Audio, QuickTime, and Windows Media stream links to the songs.
September 22, 2004
Thijs van Leer:
Flute - Hammond Organ – Vocals Martin starts work on new solo album
IQ's keyboard wizard Martin Orford has started work on his second solo
album, following the 1999 album Clasical Music and Popular Songs.
Martin: "I have started looking at material for a new solo album now
that the workload associated with the Dark Matter release has
died down a bit. There are quite a few tracks in reserve, but in
various states of completion. I've got one song finished (from a
writing point of view at least) this week and I'll be trying to finish
others throughout the rest of this year with a view to perhaps an
early summer 2005 release." Jadis
Jadis (featuring John Jowitt & Martin Orford) are playing the second
night of the Progeny 2 festival (November 21st) in the Astoria.
DVD The IQ20 (still only the working title!) DVD is rapidly nearing completion and we hope to have it in the shops before Christmas. There is an outside chance that it might be finished in time to go on sale at the Tilburg gig on October 16th. IQ Back in the USA IQ will headline the Saturday night of July 9th at NEARfest 2005 in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. This is the first time any band has been invited back to play at the festival. For more information and the full festival program, please visit the Nearfest Homepage. Tour Dates Catch the boys live at one of the following gigs.
We
thought you'd like to know that photos from Steve and the band's
recent show in Rome on 26th July have been added to his site.
Thankfully the heavy rain beforehand didn't stop a great show!
Also, for those who fancy a trip back to the '70s, check-out the
following pics taken in Utrecht at the Musik Centrum on 17th June
1979... Sticking with the '70s (and including a bit of the '60s!) the new book, 'Genesis: Play Me My Song - A Live Guide 1969 to 1975', is now available from the Camino Sales Desk.
It includes... * Extensive reviews of more than 160 live shows from 1969 to 1975 * An exclusive interview with Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips recalling their early live adventures with Genesis * Exclusive rare photos and items of memorabilia, many previously unpublished Go here for more info and ordering: http://www.camino.co.uk/shop/detail.html?productref=164 Dream Theater's "LIVE AT BUDOKAN" will be released on Tuesday, October 5th, 2004. It will be available as a 2-DVD set, a 3-CD set, as well as a bundle that contains both the 2-DVD and 3-CD. The European PAL version will be released on October 18th. The 2-DVD set features Dream Theater's concert recorded on April 26th, 2004, at the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. Disc 1 has the complete live concert. Disc 2 is packed with special features including a Japanese tour documentary, guitar /keyboard/drum solos, the tour opening video and a multiangle version of "Instrumedley".
The tracklisting of the concert is as follows:
1.
As I am http://www.dreamtheater.net/news_dreamtheater.php#lab "Karnataka regret to announce that for personal reasons the band is no longer able to continue. We would like to thank all of you who supported us from our early gigs in 1998 up to the present, it is largely you who have made this journey so worthwhile for all of us and we hope that the music we have made together has been something that will continue to live on after the band. Please note that all the remaining Karnataka gigs have been cancelled. Looking to the future, the individual members of Karnataka will be working on new material, either solo or in various combinations and subscribers to the Karnataka mailing list will receive news of CD releases, live dates and any other developments as and when they happen. Information will also be posted on www.karnataka.org.uk. We hope that you will support the future endeavours of all the band members as they will all contain part of what made Karnataka such a special band.
We hope you’ve enjoyed listening to us as much as we’ve enjoyed playing for you. Anne, Rachel, Gavin, Ian, Jonathan & Paul" All tracks for the new Pilgrym album ‘The Great Divide’ are now basically recorded with the inclusion of Andy’s long term cohort Jool’s Slater on Flute featured on various tracks throughout the album. An in-depth interview with Andy Wells is scheduled with Tina Smith of Progressive Soundscapes Radio, for 16th October 2004. The progression of the new Pilgrym album ‘The Great Divide’ will be discussed and the premier of a track will be played exclusively on PROGRESSIVE SOUNDSCAPES RADIO. A limited edition CD single is to be released late September / early October, and will include ‘Believe Me Now’, from the Pilgrimage album, as well as two previously un-released tracks, ‘Waiting For The Night’ and an early studio version of ‘Reborn’ with Andy Well’s on vocals instead of Tony Drake’s live version. The limited edition EP will be available on Holyground Records (100 copies only).
Awake with Prog-Sympho ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plackband
In the last edition of IOPages, you will find a flyer with the
anouncement of the DVD recordings on November 19th in the Boerderij in
Zoetermeer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger van Acquoy is the newest bass player for Sanity
After
weeks of auditions in their search for a new bass player, Sanity has
finally found someone.
His
name is Roger van Acquoy.
Roger
will replace Ruud Kool starting on October 1st. Ruud was no longer
able to fit the busy scheme of the band into his other duties. Roger
had already some band experience with F.o.o.d. and Cloud 9. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary Strater of Starcastle 1953-2004 Gary Strater of Starcastle has passed on. I think most of us here know that he's been battling cancer for the past few years. Let's all say a prayer for Gary and his family.
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