A Welcome to Black Widow Records: Regular visitors to this site will notice a new label being reviewed. I’d like to welcome
A Random Thought about Reunions: While reading the latest issue of The Classic Rock Society Journal from
More Free Music from KARDA ESTRA: Here
is the latest from one of my favorite bands…
Continuing the Karda Estra 10th anniversary releases, composer Richard Wileman has made
a new piece ’Island Universes’ available for free download from the Karda Estra MySpace and Soundclick pages: http://www.myspace.com/kardaestra orhttp://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=107308&content=music
Credits: Richard Wileman (composer, producer, classical,
electric and bass guitars, keyboards, percussion, bouzouki), Zoe Josey (flute), Caron Hansford (cor anglais), Amy Hedges (clarinet).
And
here is the third (and final) free anniversary mp3 single available as a free mp3 download from Soundclick:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=107308&content=music 'There
Is No Finished World' (mp3 single release 17/05/08)
Inspired to a degree by the surrealist painter Andre Masson's 'automatic
drawing' technique ....I decided to make a simple two finger guitar chord the 'pencil' and the timing of 5/4 the 'canvas.' I then
recorded a 'stream of consciousness' set of these two finger chords bouncing around the neck of the guitar for my first phase. The
second phase was seeing what I could do melodically with these sequences ... which also included adjusting a few bars to 3/4.
Credits:
Richard Wileman (composer, producer, classical, electric and bass guitars, keyboards, percussion, bouzouki), Helen Dearnley (violin),
Zoe Josey (flute, soprano saxophone), Amy Hedges (clarinet)…Best wishes, Richard Wileman (6/17/08)
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News from Festival Music: We are extremely pleased to officially announce the signing of a worldwide deal with TWELFTH NIGHT, one of the most important and exciting Prog bands to come out of the 80s Progressive Rock Revival in the UK. Recent concerts have given rise to a renewed interest in the band. Festival Music will be releasing double CD 'Definitive Edition' versions of the TWELFTH NIGHT back catalogue. Each CD set will include the full original album along with a second disc containing demos, rehearsals and/or live recordings from the same era, much of it previously unreleased. The CDs will be issued with updated artwork, new sleeve notes and previously unseen photographs. The first release in the series will be 'Smiling At Grief - The Definitive Edition', making the Smiling At Grief album available for the first time in eleven years!
SOLSTICE - Solstice are currently working on a new CD which we hope will be released later this year. TINYFISH - Work is going well on the new CD 'The Big Red Spark', with the drums recently recorded at John Mitchell's (Arena, It Bites) studio. This is going to be one of the major releases of 2009! MANNING - Guy Manning has put together the new core MANNING band line-up and includes Guy, Phil Wilkes (Keyboards), Kris Hudson-Lee (Bass, Vocals), Kev Currie (Guitar, Vocals), Danny Rhodes (Drums & Percussion), and Julie King (Keyboards, Vocals, Percussion). CITIZEN CAIN - Work is progressing well on the new Citizen Cain CD - we hope to have more news on this next time. As previously announced, Festival Music will be releasing all of the Citizen Cain back catalogue over the next few months, before releasing the new CD in early 2009. BITTERTOWN - The debut CD by Dutch band Bittertown called 'Scenes from the Box' is currently being mastered ready for release later in 2008. A concept album full of melodic tracks, it is sure to appeal to many Prog fans out there! (5/31/08)
News from ProgRock Records: POLES is the
debut release for 'Factory of Dreams' a brand new Project by Hugo Flores and Jessica Lehto featuring a fantastic booklet fully designed
for the story told in 11 songs. Factory of Dreams is: Hugo Flores - Electric Guitars, Bass Guitars and Synth bass, Synthesizers, Additional
Drum arrangements Jessica Lehto – Lead vocals, Harmonies and Vocal arrangements. Factory of Dreams has some of those sonic elements
that you loved from Project Creation but has a voice all its own. It ships mid-June ... The Chairman of Jupiter Society, Carl
Westholm, known from other Swedish acts like Carptree and Krux, now releases an epic concept album "First Contact - Last Warning".
In collaboration with people like Leif Edling (Candlemass, Krux) Mats Levén (Krux, ex Therion, Y. Malmsteen) and Declan Burke (Darwins
Radio, Frost) among many others, He gives us an album with the ambient but symphonic production known from Carptree and with a clear
presence of Heavier elements. Big arrangements, small details, different vocalists and musicians specially chosen for each song make
it diverse and intriguing. You are given one hour of music and exclusive 20 page booklet. This is an album about some important days
in a distant future and ships mid-June. (6/11/08)