November 2017

LUNATIC SOUL - The end is approaching

Mariusz Duda and Riverside are back on track after the difficult year 2016. How happy the 42-year-old musician really is can only be guessed between the lines. During Riverside's ongoing European tour he gives eclipsed insights into the backgrounds - including the emotional ones - of the new Lunatic Soul album.

eclipsed: You explained that you wanted to free me from the events of 2016 - including the death of Riverside founding member Piotr Grudziński - with the new Lunatic Soul recording. Did that work?

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BLUES PILLS - We want more, we want more

The front row of the Blues Pills was completely ready to talk, as she knows that "Lady In Gold: Live In Paris", which she recorded in October 2016 in the Halle Le Trianon in front of 1200 enthusiastic fans and which will be released on November 3rd as Blu-ray or DVD plus double CD, is her best live product so far.

But the home advantage spoke for an interview with Dorian Sorriaux, Blues Pills' French guitarist. Swedish colleague Elin Larsson says about him: "There will come a day when I will proudly claim to have played with Dorian in a band"

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SONS OF APOLLO - Dream Theater 2.0, my ass!

In the nineties Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian played together for five years at Dream Theater. Then the band unbooted the keyboarder in favour of Jordan Rudess, who is still in office today. Sherinian founded Planet X, toured with Yngwie Malmsteen and Billy Idol, joined Black Country Communion and had a highly acclaimed solo career. He renewed his musical relationship with Portnoy after he left Dream Theater in the instrumental supergroup PSMS (Portnoy, Sheehan, MacAlpine, Sherinian).

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TANGERINE DREAM - Electronic noise according to Froese

When Edgar Froese died on 20 January 2015, the end of the electronics pioneers Tangerine Dream, who were celebrated worldwide in the seventies, seemed to have come. But the father of the Berlin school had taken precautions. It was his express wish that Tangerine Dream should complete the "Quantum Years" with the current cast Thorsten Quaeschning/Ulrich Schnauss/Hoshiko Yamane. After two live recordings there is now also a new studio album.

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DAVID CROSBY - Secret power reserves

"I've wasted a lot of time being completely drugged. I stopped writing, I was in prison, I was a wreck. But since I know I don't have much time left, I'm trying to do the best job I can." David Crosby is not only advertising his sixth solo album, he also thinks he is on a real mission: as one of the last political singer-songwriters of the USA and bulwark against the "toupee-carrying disaster on two legs", as he calls Trump.

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TOM PETTY - The Wild One, Forever

Tom Petty's career, like that of many musicians of his generation, was largely fired by Elvis Presley and the Beatles. In 1961 he followed the shooting of the King for the movie "Follow That Dream" near his hometown Gainesville/Florida at the invitation of his uncle who worked on the set and became his fervent admirer. Three years later the television appearance of the Beatles in the "Ed Sullivan Show" awakened in him the desire to form a band as well: "Yes, I was a big Elvis fan.

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EUROPE - The breakthrough after success

As a hard rock fan you can't get past Europe since their eighth studio album "Last Look At Eden" (2009) at the latest. That sounds strange at first, because the band led the charts worldwide in their first life in the eighties with "The Final Countdown" and filled the concert halls. But it was only after the reunion in 2003 that Europe became what singer Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum had hoped for when founding Force, as they were called until 1982: to be called in the same breath as the hard rock greats of the seventies.

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