Ok, so I’m a sucker for cool names and unusual titles. Whatever melodeath is, I don’t have a clue. But, the word intrigues me.
An email from the band states: “Iapetus is not a project based on any desire for fame or monetary success – we’re just two dudes who love making music, and who want people to hear and connect with what we’ve made. To that end, our album will be entirely free in its digital (and possibly physical) format forever.”
Here’s the press release:
This looks pretty great.
From MVD:
Culled from concerts in Chile, Brazil and Argentina in 1993 and 1997, ELP Live in South America is an essential collection to the catalog of this progressive rock supergroup. Features versions of their hits from their forty five year career including Lucky Man, From The Beginning, Hoedown, Knife Edge and Pictures at an Exhibition. Four CDS of great listening.
CD TRACKLISTING
Disc 1:
From ForceField Media:
“We walked down streets and crammed onto trains, our faces masks of fear. Unsure how to react, we, collectively, did not react. We grieved for a country and an ideal we never thought would die. We grieved for a loss of certainty.
We argued about what we thought would happen. We preached understanding. We advocated for anger. Some people said that we’d at least get some incredible art, other people said that was a small view of a world we were quickly realizing we’d misunderstood. Everyone was right. Everyone was wrong. Art made in precarious times matters as much as we let it matter.
But what are we looking for from the art we enjoy? Escapism? A reckoning with harsh reality? A temporary shared hallucination? Music can heal because it presents the pain of being human as universal.
Musically, an homage to Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, “Kingmaker” tells the story of a powerful and devout medieval woman, Eadgyth, the granddaughter of King Alfred the Great, and often remembered in the Roman Catholic and Anglican traditions as “St. Edith” (one of a few St. Ediths, this Edith might have been known as “St. Edith of Polesworth; not surprisingly, many of the traditions are vague).
The sister of King Athelstan, she married King Otto of Germany in 929. Wildly popular, she promoted a devotion to St. Oswald, one of the most romantic figures of the high middle ages.
Only relatively recently, English scholars discovered her bones.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jun/17/archaeology-forensicscience
Continue reading “Princess Eadgyth (Edith), the “Kingmaker” by Big Big Train”
From the master, himself–
…And here is the front cover for our forthcoming new ‘Quiet Storms’ album.
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A wonderful photo of Horton Tower in the snow taken by renowned photographer Roger Holman in 1960s. Already familiar to many of my dear friends, we just thought it would make a great album cover and is totally in keeping with the atmosphere and vibe of this new album.
Inner artwork, courtesy of the rather lovely Paul Tippett, and other details will be revealed soon.–Stu Nicholson
Jazz is definitely one of these genres that were always there in the modern music and that will be played until the end of the world, therefore challenging it and creating something original might seem an overwhelming task for artists. However, jazz is also the most flexible type of music, in which there will never be a final word said – it’s like a book written by thousands of writers with another thousands waiting for their time to contribute. One of these writers is Psychic Equalizer, a project by pianist Hugo Selles who gathered a team of musicians around himself, and who recently added a new chapter to the book. It’s called “The Lonely Traveller”.
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The Mute Gods, Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth (InsideOut, 2017)
Tracks: Saltatio Mortis (1:57), Animal Army (5:00), We Can’t Carry On (5:11), The Dumbing of the Stupid (7:08), Early Warning (3:57), Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth (5:02), Window Onto the Sun (6:00), Lament (2:01), The Singing Fish of Batticaloa (8:25), The Andromeda Strain (2:57), Stranger than Fiction (4:23)
I’m going to catch hell for that title. I really don’t want to get political, but it seems that the regressive leftists are taking over this beloved genre we like to call prog. (I am, after all, the one who just last year wrote an article entitled, “Keep Your Politics Out of My Prog.”) Anyways, the first part of this article will be a subjective rant. The second half will be a relatively objective review. Both are neatly titled, in case you want to skip the rant part.
Continue reading “Stupidity Will Inherit the Earth: The Regressive Arrogance of Nick Beggs”
Passenger Kevin Thompson posted these on social media.
So, from checking social media this morning, it seems that some big things happened in England last night for our great friends, the eight members of Big Big Train (nine if you count Rob!).
[First post listed only THREE awards–corrected. FOUR. Apologies for the error.]
This is from David Longdon:
Continue reading “FOUR Major Awards for Big Big Train Last Night”
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