Van Der Graaf Generator box

donderdag 10 juni 2021

'The Charisma Years Box' comprising 17 CDs and 3 Blu Ray discs - covers Van Der Graaf Generator's entire recorded works for Charisma Records, including previously unreleased tracks and previously unreleased footage. And brand new Stereo and Surround Sound remixes.

Also featured - 2 CDs of a recently discovered and previously unreleased entire concert recorded in Paris in December 1976 by French radio, and all of the surviving BBC sessions recorded by the band.

In addition - a Blu Ray features all of the surviving high-quality VDGG television footage and promotional films including from German TV's "Beat Club" in 1970, a filmed appearance at The Bataclan in Paris in 1972 for the French TV show "Pop Deux", the 1972 appearance on "Pop Shop" for RTBF Belgium, a live performance shot by Belgian TV in Charleroi in September 1975, promotional films of Wondering and Cat's Eye, and a 20 minute documentary with live footage shot by Austrian television at The Kohfidisch Open Air Festival, Austria in June 1978.

Remixes - the albums H to He Who Am the Only One, Pawn Hearts, Godbluff and Still Life have been stunningly remixed from the original multi-track tapes in both Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound by Stephen W Tayler. (These 4 albums will also be made available separately as 3-disc Sets, including Original Stereo Mixes.)

Nieuw album Leprous

woensdag 9 juni 2021

Het Noorse Leprous komt met een nieuw studio album  op 27 augustus. De titel van het album is Aphelion, de hoesafbeelding is gepubliceerd.

Het album is wederom gemixd door Adam Noble (Placebo, Biffy Clyro, Nothing But Thieves, etc.) en gemasterd door Robin Schmidt (The 1975, Placebo, The Gaslight Anthem, etc.)

Op 25 juni begint de voorverkoop, op dezelfde dag zal een eerste single uitgebracht worden.

Vaderdagactie

maandag 7 juni 2021

Beste progliefhebber,

Onlangs verscheen ter ere van 25 jaar iO Pages het boek Prog2020 en andere kroonjaren. Vele abonnees hebben een exemplaar besteld, dank! 

iO Pages is een stichting zonder winstoogmerk die werkt met vrijwilligers, de abonnementsprijs van de tijdschriften is daarom niet hoog. Ook voor dit exclusieve en prachtige boek werken we met dat zelfde principe, een stunt met flinke korting om ook de laatste boeken te verkopen zit er niet in.

Daarom hebben we wat anders bedacht: als je (nog) een boek bestelt, bijvoorbeeld voor een (prog)vriend/vriendin, neef/nicht, broer/zus, zwager/schoonzus, collega die nog niet bekend is/zijn met iO Pages dan doen wij er niet 1 maar, doe maar gek, 2 exemplaren van iO Pages bij zodat ze (of jij) ook nog eens gratis kennis kunnen maken met ons blad.

Hoe maak je gebruik van deze actie?

Maak € 20 (€ 15 voor het boek en 2 exemplaren iO Pages en € 5 voor verzendkosten) (voor België moeten we iets meer vragen i.v.m. hogere verzendkosten: € 24) over op:

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Wil je dat wij het pakket opsturen naar de gelukkige geef dan de naam en adresgegevens van die persoon door bij de betalingsgegevens.

OP=OP

Nieuw album Kristoffer Gildenlöw

maandag 7 juni 2021

Kristoffer Gildenlöw heeft een nieuw album gemaakt dat Let Me Be A Ghost gaat heten en op 3 september verschijnt.

Een teaser is hier te horen.

Track list:
Let Me Be A Ghost pt. I
The Wind
Blame It All On Me
Falling, Floating, Sinking
Fleeting Thought
Fade Away
Don't
Lean On Me
Let Me Be A Ghost pt. II
Still Enough
Where I Ought To Be
Let Me Be A Ghost pt. III
Look At Me Now

Formats:
- Limited Edition double LP
- Threefold digipack CD
- Digital Download and streaming on all major platforms

Production notes:
All songs written by Kristoffer Gildenlöw
Mixed and Produced by Kristoffer Gildenlöw
Mastered by Peter van ‘t Riet at Finetune Mastering Studio (NL)
Cover art painting by Sander van Helvoort
Artwork by Kristoffer Gildenlöw

Guest Musicians:
Joris Lindner: Drums on The Wind, Falling, Floating, Sinking, Fleeting Thought, Lean On Me, Still Enough and Where I Ought To Be. Hammond Organ on The Wind
Dirk Bruinenberg: Drums on Let Me Be A Ghost pt. III
Erna auf der Haar: Vocals on Lean On Me
Ronja Gildenlöw: Vocals on The Wind
Marcel Singor: Guitar solo on Fleeting Thought

Nieuwe mix PF Animals

dinsdag 1 juni 2021

A note from Roger Waters to Pink Floyd fans:

As I am banned by Dave Gilmour from posting on Pink Floyd's Facebook page with its 30,000,000 subscribers, I am posting this announcement here today and in full on rogerwaters.com.

First, a warm welcome back to our little band of brothers and sisters who have always kept an open mind, let's hope some of the fans whose access to my words is suppressed by Gilmour find their way here and discover some truth.
What precipitated this note is that there are new James Guthrie Stereo and 5.1 mixes of the Pink Floyd album Animals, 1977. These mixes have languished unreleased because of a dispute over some sleeve notes that Mark Blake has written for this new release. Gilmour has vetoed the release of the album unless these liner notes are removed. He does not dispute the veracity of the history described in Mark's notes, but he wants that history to remain secret. This is a small part of an ongoing campaign by the Gilmour/Samson camp to claim more credit for Dave on the work he did in Pink Floyd, 1967-1985, than is his due. Yes he was, and is, a jolly good guitarist and singer. But, he has for the last 35 years told a lot of whopping porky pies about who did what in Pink Floyd when I was still in charge. There's a lot of "we did this" and "we did that," and "I did this" and "I did that." 

De Mark Blake liner notes zijn hier te lezen.

Nieuw album Neal Morse Band

dinsdag 1 juni 2021

NMB are pleased to announce the release of their much-anticipated fourth studio album Innocence & Danger on August 27th, 2021.
With NMB's previous two releases being concept albums, it's perhaps remarkable that Innocence & Danger is a series of unrelated songs, but drummer Mike Portnoy says "After two sprawling back to back double concept albums in a row, it was refreshing to get back to writing a collection of unrelated individual songs in the vein of our first album."
Indeed, making this album came easy to the band; while the initial inspiration came particularly from Bill Hubauer (keyboards) and Randy George (bass), the ideas flowed from everybody from there on, as George recalls: "I am excited about the level of collaboration that we achieved on this one. We even went in with a lot of ideas that weren't necessarily developed, and I think in the end we have something that represents the best of everybody in the band."
In fact - like its two acclaimed predecessors - Innocence & Danger is a double album by inspiration, rather than design, as Portnoy explains: "As much as we wanted to try and keep it to a single album after having just done two double albums, we wrote so much material that we found ourselves with our third double album in a row! That's pretty prog!"
There is also plenty: "There's one half hour epic and another that's about 20 minutes long. I really didn't realise that they were that long when we were recording them, which I guess is great because if a movie is really good, you don't realise that it's three hours long! But there are also some shorter songs: some have poppier elements, some are heavier and some have three part acoustic sections. I'm excited about all of it, really."
The album will be released as a Limited 2CD+DVD Digipak (featuring a Making Of documentary), 3LP+2CD Boxset, Standard 2CD Jewelcase & Digital Album, featuring artwork by Thomas Ewerhard (Transatlantic). Pre-orders start on the 18th June, and the full track-listing is below:

CD 1 (Innocence):
1. Do It All Again 08:55
2. Bird On A Wire 07:22
3. Your Place In The Sun 04:12
4. Another Story To Tell 04:50
5. The Way It Had To Be 07:14
6. Emergence 03:12
7. Not Afraid Pt. 1 04:53
8. Bridge Over Troubled Water 08:08
CD 2 (Danger):
1. Not Afraid Pt. 2 19:32
2. Beyond The Years 31:22

The Neal Morse Band (now NMB) was formed in 2012, featuring long-time collaborators Neal Morse (vocals, keyboards and guitars), Mike Portnoy (drums, vocals) and Randy George (bass), as well as Bill Hubauer (keyboards, vocals) and Eric Gillette (guitars, vocals). The band's first album, The Grand Experiment, showed both a freshness and maturity that was further developed in 2016's The Similitude Of A Dream, 2019's The Great Adventure and 2021's Innocence & Danger.
Look for NMB on tour in North America in October 2021 and in Europe throughout May/June 2022. Tour dates coming soon!