NEW Chest Rockwell EP is out…look for a review coming soon here…in the meanwhile check out this You Tube video of the band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wTGbORI8nU&feature=channel_video_title
NEWS
FROM ROBERT TAYLOR…A new album by Taylor's Universe from Denmark is in the making. The album 'Kind of Red' will be Taylor's first
release since 2010's Two-Pack, which obtained a lot of praise in the media. This time Robin Taylor (guitars, basses, vintage keyboads
etc.) shares the duties with Hugh Steinmetz (trumpets), Jakob Mygind (saxophones) and Klaus Thrane (drums). The music is recorded
by Louise Nipper at Soundscape Studio, and by Klaus Thrane at Thrane Studios. Expected release 'as soon as possible' in 2012.
A Marvel of Beauty production
News from Spanish Proggers Kotebel: Just to let you know that we have just launched a pre-order
campaign in order to help us finance the manufacturing of our new album. It will feature a bonus DVD with a full rendition of the
recording sessions. We just uploaded a preview of the DVD: http://youtu.be/8fWGoB_5K4E You can also find audio fragments of
all the pieces (there are 4 in addition to the 4 movements of the piano concerto) here: www.kotebel.com/e-store/concerto.php For more
information on the band go to - http://www.kotebel.com
News from Lebowski: I have some exciting news for you :) After hundreds
of positive reviews and thousands of CD's sold. The "Cinematic" is now available for full-length streaming on Bandcamp! You can listen
anytime, anywhere and share with your friends. Bandcamp profile: http://lebowskipl.bandcamp.com
Latest Releases from Festival
Music UK – COMING SOON - The new CD by Citizen Cain, now called ‘Skies Darken', plus their long deleted entire back catalogue, are
currently being remastered. We appreciate that these releases have been a long time coming, but we are working hard and hope to announce
the official release date very, very soon.
TWELFTH NIGHT - LIVE AT THE TARGET – The Definitive Edition (Double CD) A 'Definitive
Edition' CD release of Twelfth Night's classic instrumental CD - Live at the Target, originally released in 1981. Now released with
bonus tracks and a bonus live CD. Recorded at The Target, Reading, 15-16 January 1981. Remastered from the original vinyl album 'Live
At The Target'.
ALSO EDEN - THINK OF THE CHILDREN Signing to the Festival Music label in August 2011, this will be Also Eden's
first release on the label, but the band's 4th release overall, following 'About Time', 'It's Kind Of You To Ask', and their EP 'Differences
As Light'.
ANDY SEARS – SOUVENIR To co-incide with his solo tour between March and June 2011, this is the release of Andy
Sears' first solo songs. This is not a solo CD, more a collection of demos, works in progress and rearrangements of TN songs: a souvenir
for tour-goers. There is also bonus video content, including unseen footage from Twelfth Night's concert in Loreley in September 2010.
COSMOGRAF - WHEN AGE HAS DONE IT'S DUTY Cosmograf is a progressive rock project lead by Robin Armstrong, a multi instrumentalist
musician from Waterlooville nr Portsmouth UK. The sound is rooted in 70s classic rock with a contemporary and progressive twist.
SOLSTICE - KINDRED SPIRIT'S The band’s first live album since 'The Cropredy Set' in 1998. It’s a compilation of live tunes from 2007/8 and covers a lot of older material that they didn't get to play at the 'Spirit' launch. Both the DVD and CD have superb sound, and captures the energy of the performances.
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DVD/CD REVIEW: Transatlantic – More is Never Enough (2011 Radiant Records) This is another mammoth package consisting of 2-DVDs and
3-CDs capturing the band Transatlantic on their 2010 world tour. The old expression about trying to catch light in a bottle comes
to mind as the promo material talks about how sometimes a night’s performance is better in some ways than others and yet may not be
captured on audio or video. So just in case the band recorded on more than one night and here we have the CD capturing the Manchester
show and the DVD from the Tillburg performance. It’s another set of performances of the same tour and as you might expect, it comes
off slightly differently. Focusing on the DVD’s, for one thing the stage isn’t lit as brightly as the other DVD release so here the
coloured lights create a more dramatic effect and have more impact. It shows like a performance would if you were there with players
sometimes in the dark, not always in the light. I understand why the bright lights are used but I also like to see the full impact
of the stage lighting so this was a nice bonus. I did get a feeling that the performance itself wasn’t quite as spot-on note-wise.
There seemed to be a little wavering in some sections of songs, more on the vocals than anything else. It’s nothing distracting and
perhaps emphasizes how one performance isn’t a carbon copy of the other. Each night brings its own baggage. As for the encore, well
on this release we still get to hear “Return of the Giant Hogweed” but it’s a much looser, more spontaneous earlier version. And in
terms of extras we get four “jam” sessions taken from various performances showing the band clowning around on stage and off. All
in all this live set comes off a little more relaxed and is a great complement to the original DVD issue. Highly recommended for fans
of the band or for that matter anyone into grand symphonic progressive rock. Check out the details at: http://transatlanticweb.com
