eclipsed: The big surprise is that after seven years Mercury Rev has released a new CD. In the beginning it sounds completely different than earlier records from you, but with each further hearing the Mercury Rev sound comes better to the fore ...
![Out of the Oldfield corner - with "Great Escapes" Frank Bossert alias EUREKA takes the flight to the front](https://www.eclipsed.de/sites/default/files/field/image/Eureka1%20web.jpg "Out of the Oldfield corner - with "Great Escapes" Frank Bossert alias EUREKA takes the flight to the front")
eclipsed: Your project Eureka was the German answer to Mike Oldfield. Much time has passed since the last almost instrumental concept work "Shackleton's Voyage" (2009). "Great Escapes" now presents a new Eureka sound. Hardly any folk, symphonic prog and Oldfield bonds left. Instead of Claudia Sokollek, who sang on the first records until 2005, you now take over the mic yourself. What has the musician Frank Bossert undergone since 2009 for further development?
!["Like a power plant without electronics" - With "Barefoot To The Moon" ECHOES pull the plug at Pink Floyd](https://www.eclipsed.de/sites/default/files/field/image/Echoes%20Acoustic%201%20Damir%20Klaushofer%20web.jpg ""Like a power plant without electronics" - With "Barefoot To The Moon" ECHOES pull the plug at Pink Floyd")
eclipsed: You are celebrating your twentieth anniversary at the moment and are travelling electrically with Pink Floyd music for a correspondingly long time. With "Barefoot To The Moon - An Acoustic Tribute To Pink Floyd" you now succeed in staging the bombastic classics of the art rockers in strictly acoustic garb in a completely new way and thus bring out unknown facets. How did this concept come about?
![ROGER WATERS - "The Wall" and its creator 2.0](https://www.eclipsed.de/sites/default/files/field/image/ROGER_WATERS_4%20web.jpg "ROGER WATERS - "The Wall" and its creator 2.0")
He's smiling. Over and over again. He actually seems to be having fun on stage. From 2010 to 2013 he presents "The Wall" to the whole world. Make it clear that he and only he is the author of this monumental work. With its impressive concert scenes and bonus material, the new film "Roger Waters The Wall" documents even more: satisfaction with work. Joy with the people around him. I'm fine with myself. That wasn't always the case in Roger Waters' career. In 1965 Waters founded the band Sigma 6 with Nick Mason and Rick Wright.
As is so often the case, at the beginning coincidence was the godfather. Until 1964, it was common for pop acts to appear on television to present their latest songs. When Richard Lester finished the Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night" he omitted the performance of the song "You Can't Do That" at London's Scala Theater due to lack of space. At the end of 1964, the makers of the "Ed Sullivan Show", which had been the door opener for the US market for the Beatles in February, asked Lester to broadcast exactly this recording.
Subsignal mastermind Markus Steffen seems relaxed and tidy in the interview. And so could the 47-year-old: The first reviews of the new studio album were positive throughout. A small release tour also lies behind the band around Steffen and the Dutch singer Arno Menses. "Beacons" was also very well received by the fans. After two changes of line-up, the quintet may feel at the temporary high point of its career.
eclipsed: "Masterpiece", "stroke of genius" - the album reviews are sometimes exuberant. How are you doing with that?
![DEF LEPPARD - "We are Rock"](https://www.eclipsed.de/sites/default/files/field/image/DefLeppard_pic-credit_Ross-Halfin%20web.jpg "DEF LEPPARD - "We are Rock"")
Joe Elliott, the singer of the band, who belongs to the squad of eloquent English rock stars who radiate glamour and down-to-earthness at the same time, made sure in November 1977 that the band, which he joined at the age of 18, chose "Deaf Leopard" as its name. As a reference to Led Zeppelin, the musicians quickly renamed themselves Def Leppard and in 1980, during the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), were flushed to the top of the movement together with Saxon and Iron Maiden.
Of razor-sharp mind and weak physical constitution, Frank Zappa was a head man from earliest youth on. Even his humor was over his head, never through his stomach. At best he lived out his feelings in his songs. His surroundings would adore him all their lives, hardly anyone felt loved by him. Frank Zappa was a loner, and it is no wonder that he has many epigones, but never trained a school.
At the time of the interview, Anna von Hausswolff is in Berlin. "This is the first time I've done such an interview marathon," reveals the 29-year-old singer and organist. Nevertheless there are no signs of exhaustion in the Swedish girl, instead she chats away from her liver about her wonderful third album. On "The Miraculous" she presents the church organ in a completely new context, approaching bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor - a fascinating listening experience.
A concert for excavators and drums. In 1988 Mani Neumeier staged this unusual combination of two worlds. It goes without saying that it was not a toy excavator, but a real monster from road construction. Neumeier garnished this performance, which can be admired on YouTube, with slapstick interludes full of abstruse humour. Is that Dada or gaga? Neumeier won't care the answer. The spectacle appears like a mixture of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Helge Schneider.
