Category: Progarchy

Listen to streaming of Dave Kerzner’s prog feast New World @DaveKerzner

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Dave Kerzner announces:

BIG NEWS! My debut solo album New World has just been released here and on iTunes. It features musicians who have played with Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, ELP, The Who, Porcupine Tree, Big Big Train, Tears for Fears, It Bites and more. It’s now streaming in full on my Sonic Elements Bandcamp page with high quality mp3 and FLAC download plus PDF art, lyrics and liner notes. Come check it out!

https://sonicelements.bandcamp.com/album/new-world

“New World” is the debut solo album from former Sound of Contact keyboardist/songwriter/producer Dave Kerzner. It’s a Progressive Rock “concept album” that’s set in the future and follows the main character on a journey from being stranded in the desert to finding his way back to the biodomed city where he originally came from.

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released 09 December 2014

Track 1: Stranded pt1-5 (10:32)
Track 2: Into The Sun (7:21)
Track 3: The Lie (5:04)
Track 4: Under Control (5:54)
Track 5: Crossing Of Fates (4:49)
Track 6: My Old Friend (5:27)
Track 7: Ocean Of Stars (5:36)
Track 8: Solitude (3:39)
Track 9: Nothing (6:17)
Track 10: New World (5:57)
Track 11: Redemption: Stranded pt. 6-10 (17:25)

The Cast:

Dave Kerzner – Vocals Tracks 1-11
Keyboards Tracks 1-11
Guitar Tracks 2,4,6,9
Drum Programming Tracks 4,6,8
Fernando Perdomo – Guitar Tracks 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
Bass Tracks 1,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
Nick D’Virgilio – Drums Tracks 1,2,3,5,6,7,9,10,11
Steve Hackett – Guitar Tracks 1,11
Francis Dunnery – Guitar Tracks 10,11
Russ Parish – Guitar Track 6
Colin Edwin – Bass Track 2
Billy Sherwood – Bass Track 5
Keith Emerson – Moog Modular Synth (via Sonic Reality) Track 5
Simon Phillips – Drums Track 5
Durga McBroom – Vocals Tracks 1,11
Lorelei McBroom – Vocals Tracks 7,8
Jason Scheff – Vocals Tracks 1,11
David Longdon – Vocals Track 10
Emily Lynn – Vocals Tracks 8,11
Lara Smiles – Vocals Track 8
Heather Findlay – Vocals Track 2
Maryem Tollar – Vocals Track 6
Christine Leakey – Vocals Track 7
Ana Cristina – Vocals Track 1

Produced by Dave Kerzner

Mixed by Dave Kerzner
except “Stranded” mixed by Tom Lord-Alge
Assistant Mix Engineering & Editing by Chris Holmes

Mastered by Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen for Lurssen Mastering

Artwork and Graphic Design by Christine Leakey
Cover Art by Dave Kerzner

Dave Kerzner’s prog extravaganza is now available! New World @DaveKerzner

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Dave Kerzner’s prog extravaganza — New World — is now available! Buy it today… and be blown away!

Ascending Dawn — “All in Now” from the album Coalesce by @AscendingDawn

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The album Coalesce has been two years in the making. And it sure does show. Skilled attention to detail and an intense musical intelligence shines forth on this album.

Nine tracks of ambient prog metal awesomeness are kicked off by “All in Now,” which is available here as a free download.

The band comments on the track:

Pummeling riffs and soaring ambient lines are complemented by clean melodies and harmonic backings, defining our signature sound.

Lyrically, “All in Now” delves into our current state of worldly affairs; how we connect through the intangible web of communication, watching our spiritual awareness expand with the overflow of information.

Here’s a guide to the lyrics:

Verse 1
Multiplying the social
Connectivity wires us together
Questioning all the doubtful
Intertwining the need for the censor

Chorus
Breathe in to allow
Impulsive pure presence
All in now
All in now
Emotive pure essence

Verse 2
Uncertain futuristic
Ideology, transient moments
All experience is cyclic
Periodically forced to torment

Bridge
All In Now

Written by: Mark Weatherley and Marlain Angelides
Arranged by: Ascending Dawn
Ascending Dawn are: Constanze Hart, Mark Weatherley, Owen Rees, Marlain Angelides

Dave Kerzner — New World Album Audio Preview @DaveKerzner

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First, you heard “Stranded.”

Now, take a listen to this tantalizing sample of the epic album awesomeness that is soon to be released in its entirety:

Also, here’s 2 minutes of “Into The Sun”:

Adria — “Pull Me Under” @ThisIsAdria

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“Pull Me Under” is the single now pre-released from Adria’s forthcoming EP. She has a great voice and I have always loved her magnificent work with All Eyes on Saturn on their extremely hard-to-find but totally brilliant EP, “Where the Shadows Find Their Homes.” Check out her new music now on YouTube:

Patrick Moraz — “Time for a Change”

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Patrick Moraz relates a nice little piece of Yes history:

“We had decided to do some writing — starting in 1975, when I was also helping Chris and Steve to record some music,” Patrick Moraz tells us. “We had started to compose and to co-compose and to gather material for what was going to be the album Going for the One, and I was very much involved in the composing of ‘Awaken’ at the time. I even recorded one or two tracks in the very, very beginning — in the early stages of sessions in 1976. I recorded some basic tracks for what was going to become ‘Awaken,’ and other tracks for Going for the One. Unfortunately, those were taken out, to allow Rick to come back to the band.”

Moraz ultimately repurposed the work he had done on “Awaken” into a solo song called “Time for a Change,” released in 1977. “When I had to exit Yes at the end of ’76, I started a new album of mine — and I decided call the album Out in the Sun,” Moraz adds. “Maybe I should have called it Time for a Change! It’s a long track; it’s the last track. There were two or three movements that were part of ‘Time for a Change.’ The very beginning of it, the first minute and half or so, reflect what I had actually co-composed for the song ‘Awaken’ itself. It’s a very beautiful kind of piece, which I used as an introduction. What ended up on the record, which is being played by Rick, is completely different than what I would have written.

You can download the entire track “Time for a Change” (9:10) for only $0.99 from iTunes.

Ascending Dawn — “Opposites” (Guitar Play-through)

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The new album from Ascending Dawn is 100% amazing. Be sure to check out its rich textures and atmospheric layers. I declare it one of the best of the entire year!

Take a look at the supercool guitar work on the excellent track “Opposites“:

A new Steely Dan album?

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Something Else has constructed a new Steely Dan album that is eminently worth investigating:

Making a new Steely Dan album wouldn’t be that hard for them to do. Yeah, yeah, they do fuss over the recording process a lot in the studio, but we get the notion that they love to do that, anyway. And it’s not as if they even need to finish up those old songs from the mid-eighties, there are enough completed or near-completed tunes that are up to par to make up a complete album. Steely Dan devotees S. Victor Aaron, Preston Frazier and John Lawler humbly offer up a suggested song line-up that they could bring into the studio for a new Steely Dan album, culled from outtakes, live-only songs and one famous erasure. Click on the song titles to find the full story on these forgotten tunes.

Click on the link to Something Else and check it out.

H/T: Edward Feser

Joseph Bottum @JosephBottum — Grace and Gladness ♫♫♫♫

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From the people who gave us Send My Roots Rain earlier this year, we now have the two-song Christmas release Grace and Gladness. You can download it from iTunes. Joseph Bottum tells us that the songs were

recorded down at the Underground Treehouse in Nashville, with production by Chris Folsom and vocals by Mallory Reaves.
I’m really happy with them, but we’ll see what everyone else thinks. The first is “Joy Will Keep Us,” set to a modern melody by my amazingly productive composer friend, Mike Linton. And the second is “Some Come to See the Lord,” new words to a recasting of a 16th-century Swedish melody [“Bereden väg för Herran”] that Priscilla M. Jensen taught me.
There’s something about Christmas songs that makes them glow. Christmas, I suppose, it must be. The Princeton filmmaker Margaret Craycraft filmed the sessions”