April 2016

Trip in Trance - MONOMYTH explores itself and a strange planet

With the third longplayer "Exo" the Stoner psych space band Monomyth finishes their trilogy, according to official sources. Trilogy? This has not actually been mentioned so far. Sander Evers, drummer of the Dutch instrumental formation, now puts the releases into context: "With our debut 'Monomyth' we started to explore myths and fictions on our own planet, but in the end we looked at the stars. Further' was the introduction of our spaceship, some maps and a destination we wanted to travel to. On 'Exo' we finally reach it, land on the alien planet and begin to explore it.

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Reaching for the stars - COUNTER-WORLD EXPERIENCE kidnap foreign galaxies on "Pulsar

The musicians of the progressive jazz metal trio Counter-World Experience are avowed science fiction fans. According to guitarist Benjamin Schwenen, who also composes for groups such as Eisbrecher and Tanzwut, "Star Wars", "Star Trek", the film "Abyss - Abyss of Death" and the soundtracks of John Williams were formative for the development of the band members.

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LOVE MACHINE deliver psychedelic from Germany's West Coast

With "Circles" Love Machines continues their journey into the infinite cosmic vastness of psychedelic music. Since the debut "A Present To The Galaxy" two years ago a lot has happened for the band from Düsseldorf/Cologne. Guitarist and synth player Felix Wursthorn sums up: "For me it feels as if in the course of the many shows we've played over the last two years we've realized where we're headed." And that's what you hear: more dynamic and explosive, less hallucinogenic. Wursthorn: "'Circles' is definitely more impulsive.

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In expectation of the unexpected - EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY

In the beginning there was this one moment, which can be decisive for the future of a band: In 2004 the musician, composer and producer Brian Reitzell, a true jack-of-all-trades, became aware of the troupe from Austin, Texas and engaged them in his function as music supervisor to write the soundtrack for the film "Friday Night Lights". So far, so good. Two years later it became a very successful TV series, in which the music of Explosions In The Sky was used again and again - the ticket to US television, because since then the songs of the band have been used there again and again.

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KING CRIMSON - Always back to the beginning

When bassist Peter Giles responded in June 1968 to an ad in "Melody Maker" in which former Fairport Convention singer Judy Dyble was looking for fellow musicians, he could not have imagined that this would be the birth of one of the most important English rock bands. Giles had recorded the unsuccessful album "The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp" with his brother Michael on drums and guitarist Robert Fripp a few months earlier.

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KEITH EMERSON - The Last Fanfare

Born in 1944 in Todmorden, the Englishman was the only child of a middle-class family. For a decade he was to be the rock keyboardist par excellence. Keith Emerson freed the organist from the corset of the sitting bureaucrat, who stoically pressed chords on a nut-brown box. The "King of Keyboards" took organ playing to a new level of sex, violence and ecstasy. In private rather shy, Emerson on stage turned into an aggressor who shook his Hammond like a stubborn lover, maltreated her with his elbows, stood on her and performed a wild ride.

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HAKEN - The dream of the throne

Constant change and experimentation have always been important constants in Haken's career. With their albums "Aquarius" (2010) and "Visions" (2011), the Londoners documented their amazing stylistic diversity at an early stage and developed into a real insider tip in a very short time. Three great gigs at the "Night Of The Prog" did the rest to put the band on the radar of German prog fans again and again. Already on "Visions" the sextet sounded mature and determined, but with "The Mountain" (2013) it delivered its masterpiece.

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RAINBOW - The Monster Of Rock

When on the night of August 16th 1980 in Castle Donnington in central England a fireworks display after Rainbow's headliner gig ended the first "Monsters Of Rock" festival, a great event concept had passed its baptism of fire. Crowned by the performance of one of the best hardrock live bands in the world. At the same time it was the end of the short Bonnet era. When the ex-Marbels singer ("Only One Woman") joined the band in 1979, he had no experience as a hard rock shouter.

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LONG DISTANCE CALLING - Münster and the World

Progressive Rock is certainly first associated with a metropolis like London, but even a dreamy small town like Canterbury could develop into a haven for prog, even though it was a long time ago. But Münster of all places? The name Münster also stands for departure from convention, but the time of the Anabaptists dates back half a millennium. It's hard to believe that a band like Long Distance Calling is making similar waves, but at least the band from Münster is changing the German music scene and a bit of Europe's progressive music scene.

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OKTA LOGUE - With one foot in new territory

Okta Logue never moved anywhere else. The band's own workspace in Griesheim near Darmstadt in southern Hesse serves reliably as a creative laboratory for a pleasantly modern reading of psychedelic rock. In the office of their Berlin label, singer Benno Herz and guitarist Philip Meloi talk in a good mood about the creation of their third album "Diamonds And Despair".

eclipsed: When you hear your music, you think of waves, surfing, West Coast feeling. Only a few people would bet on a band from Hessen...

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