June 2017

SONGS FROM THE WOOD - The History of Folkprog, Part II

The enrichment of the Prog with folk elements was especially popular in the 70s. Important features were the use of folkloristic instruments and alternative guitar tunings as well as texts related to nature or the history of the homeland. Nevertheless, the term "Folkprog" is spongy. In fact, only a few groups can be clearly located in this genre, and not necessarily over a longer period of time. In addition, the boundaries between (progressive) folk and psychedelic folk are fluid.

The 60s: Folk revival and (progressive) folk as pioneers of Folkprog

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STEVEN WILSON - Pop nonstop

For the exclusive interview with eclipsed, Steven Wilson comes to the offices of his new management in London's Fulham district. Not only the management is new, Wilson is also under contract to a record company - the major label Caroline. More than two years have passed since the release of his last record "Hand. Cannot. Erase." A time when the world kept spinning and Wilson gained new insights. Insights that have also been reflected in "To The Bone". Polite and detailed as ever, he answers.

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SLOWDIVE - End of innocence

Berlin, April 3rd. The Festsaal Kreuzberg, newly opened elsewhere, is bursting at the seams. Slowdive have invited to the reunion concert, and the fan community has gathered together to celebrate the Shoegaze heroes of the 90s at one of their few comeback shows. It is not only the expectation that unloads and the crowd cheers as the five visibly aged sombre rockers enter the stage. Who is there for whom, the band for the audience or the audience for the band? Nobody knows what's about to happen yet.

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GRATEFUL DEAD - The Living Dead

Grateful Dead once gave their fans a far-reaching promise: "As long as you want to hear us, you will have a band". Now the fans of the Grateful Dead, the much sung about deadheads, are not to be compared with other fans. They follow their band on tour everywhere, young fans still get tattoos of the faces of Pigpen and Jerry Garcia (dead since 1973 and 1995, respectively), deadheads embody the counterculture of the late sixties, as if the Summer of Love never ended. The degree of their devotion shows that the formation, founded in California in 1965, is not just any band.

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With CHRIS CORNELL'S mysterious suicide, the Grunge generation loses another icon

It could have been a wonderful year for Soundgarden. The band had worked intensively in the studio and prepared the successor of the fine comeback album "King Animal". Instead, 2017 will be remembered as the blackest year in the history of the band from Seattle: the year in which singer Chris Cornell took his own life, hanged himself - unexpectedly, for the family as well as for the fellow musicians who had played a sold-out concert in Detroit with their frontman on the evening of the event.

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Norwegian Ninja - PRISTINE fight for their place in the blues rock district

The Gibson Club is located in the middle of the Zeil, the main shopping mile in downtown Frankfurt. Can rock'n'roll really bloom there in blues rock style? As part of the multi-day "Women Of The World" festival, Sweden's Blues Pills with their Norwegian support Pristine have announced themselves there. In the afternoon we enter the club through the back door. The Blues Pills are still on stage at the soundcheck.

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LITTLE STEVEN returns as solo artist - and intends to stay

He was gone for almost two decades, at least as a solo performer. Steven Van Zandt alias Little Steven has been an integral part of the Bruce Springsteen Camp since "Born To Run" (1975). While Saxer Clarence Clemons was the boss's right hand all his life, Steven was his left. But in the last twenty years he was more active as an actor ("Die Sopranos", "Lilyhammer") than as an album artist besides his engagement in the E Street Band. What made the guitarist decide to continue the legendary "Sound of Asbury Park" with his new record "Soulfire"?

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Music From Time And Space Vol. 65

RPWL - The Attack (Live) (10:20)
Album: A New Dawn (Live) (2CD) (2017, Release: 14.07.)
Label/Distribution: Gentle Art Of Music/Soulfood
www.rpwl.net

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