![Our "beautiful new world" sends its greetings - HUXLEY WOULD APPROVE breathe the great Pink-Floyd spirit](https://www.eclipsed.de/sites/default/files/field/image/huxley%20header.jpg "Our "beautiful new world" sends its greetings - HUXLEY WOULD APPROVE breathe the great Pink-Floyd spirit")
The output of Pink Floyd & Co was and is limited, but there are always new bands for lovers of this special style, which closely follow the original. So also the project Huxley Would Approve...
eclipsed: Could you explain where you came from? For our readers you are still a blank page.
Joe Bolieiro: Hi, I'm Joe Bolieiro from Toronto, Canada.
The band project Horizontal Ascension unites musicians of the bands Flaming Bess (one of the oldest German prog rock bands) and Marquette (modern melodic prog). The multi-instrumentalists Achim Wierschem (also known under the alias Mindmovie) and Markus Roth join forces with US singer Mike Hartmann. The result is an ambitious album with many longtracks that clearly points to the future of progressive music. Classical prog, harder prog metal and jazzy elements are condensed into a kind of fusion of the 21st century.
The records "Fragile" and "Drama" were milestones in the long career of Prog-Urgestein Yes in very different ways. While with "Fragile" Keyboardass Rick Wakeman joined the group and gave it from now on decisive impulses, it was nine years later with Geoff Downes again a virtuoso keyman, who provided for a certain reorientation of the exceptional group with "Drama". Now Yes perform exactly these groundbreaking works in a double pack.
Bent Sæther is a very friendly contemporary who speaks clearly and articulately about his band Motorpsycho and their philosophy. The praise with which we introduce the interview actually makes him a little embarrassed. Unlike many other artists, he is not afraid to speak openly about doubts about his own work. But he doesn't even need to have that, because "Here Be Monsters" is also another milestone in the motor psycho saga, a work that comes along with quieter tones, but nevertheless, to use Sæther's words, sounds sublime.
![CAMEL - Andy Latimer over 40 years of "Moonmadness"](https://www.eclipsed.de/sites/default/files/field/image/camel%20header.jpg "CAMEL - Andy Latimer over 40 years of "Moonmadness"")
Camel mastermind Andy Latimer, the only remaining founding member, still raves today when he tells the story of the creation of the masterpiece "Moonmadness", which was released forty years ago: "This record is a milestone in Camel's long history", says the 66-year-old Briton, "some of the most beautiful songs Camel has ever created can be heard on it"
eclipsed: What memories do you have of the process of creating "Moonmadness"?
Anyone who only knows 38-year-old Joe Bonamassa from his concerts will be surprised how casually the American backstage is dressed. The stage suit ("because it's good blues tradition to dress decently on stage") looks American through and through with baseball cap, jeans and T-shirt. But there's one thing about him that isn't ami-typical at all: Joe rarely gets lost in niceness phrases. "Have a nice day" and "I'm fine" do not belong to the standard vocabulary of the exceptional guitarist.
"There is no death. Just a change of cosmic address." This was Edgar Froese's lifelong credo, with which he philosophically tricked the reaper. His wife Bianca Froese-Acquaye organized a special event in honor of the cosmologist in Froese's hometown Berlin: a mixture of art show, reading and music. The foyer in the "Haus der Berliner Festspiele" is a suitable place, as the founder of Tangerine Dream received a scholarship from the "Berliner Akademie der Künste" in the early sixties. Friends, long-time fans and media representatives have now paid their respects to him.
Lazuli were founded in 1998 by the brothers Claude and Dominique Leonetti. After several personnel changes they seem to be a consolidated unit since their album "Tant Que L'herbe Est Grasse" (2014), released two years ago. Singer and guitarist Dominique Leonetti explains how her new recording "No Âmes Saoules" came into being and what lies behind the lyrics.
eclipsed: "No Âmes Saoules" is very sensual, sometimes even a little claustrophobic. What inspired and influenced the record before and during its creation?
Anas is a cheerful young man. You wouldn't even dream of him fleeing three years ago. He laughs at himself, is at peace with his life. The slim giant is the head of the Syrian band Khebez Dawle (pronounce: 'Kewess 'Daule). Her name means as much as bread from the state. The band's first CD, "Khebez Dawle", is not exciting because it has a refugee bonus, but because it combines moments of experimental and sometimes quite hard rock with Arabic music in a gripping and absolutely unusual way, without ever falling into the trap of any world music ecstasy.
England is often referred to as the last prog band of the seventies. When their only studio record came out, Progressive Rock was already in the throes of death. The group itself came to an abrupt end due to a series of unfortunate coincidences - which is why keyboarder/singer Robert Webb, who has lived in Greece for fifteen years, looks back on this time with a laughing and a crying eye. "In the heyday of progressive rock, between 1967 and 1977, the musicians had every freedom to do what they wanted," explains Webb, who once sawed his Mellotron in half for transport reasons.
