January 2018

Trackpremiere: PINSKI - III ("Sound The Alarm")

PINSKI screams and sings, distorts her acoustic guitar, writes songs that have something to say and sometimes gets really bad. With a lot of energy and heart in his mouth. If you like a good singer/songwriter girl with a very delicate acoustic guitar, you are wrong here. Pinski rocks her songs with her regular band, who don't have to hide behind anybody and bring a lot of fun to the stage. On 26.04. the debut album "Sound the Alarm" will be released on Gentle Art Of Music! Here is an exclusive foretaste in advance...

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BROTHER GRIMM - unique type, unique music

Dennis Grimm is Brother Grimm. The 38-year-old, who grew up between Hamburg and Bremen and lives in Berlin, presents his second album "Home Today, Gone Tomorrow". Once again, Grimm recorded the work almost single-handedly. Once again his music is unique: minimal songs between drones and grooves, between noises and melodies, more in the dark than in the light.

eclipsed: Dennis, you were just on tour. How'd it go?

Dennis Grimm: Cool, it was nice. Being on tour is always cool. You get to know new people, new cities, new corners.

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OPERATION CHERRYTREE - From Norway to East Westphalia

Four men from East Westphalia of the best age meet by pure chance in Norway. Human chemistry fits right away. Musically, too, as she soon reveals. Back in their homeland they found the quartet Operation Cherrytree. Now the debut "Scum & Honey" is available. An album that rocks, that grunts, that groovs, that blues, a little bit of everyone, something good of everyone. eclipsed talked to singer Wyno, bassist Jansen and guitarist Sieks (only drummer CH had to fit) about the band, their formation and their album.

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BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Music as medicine

Music as medicine, sung texts as help in almost all situations in life? Buffy Sainte-Marie, a Canadian of Indian descent, is convinced that in this way it is possible to present complex themes in a very brief way: "A protest song of three minutes can be more effective than a book of four hundred pages." History had shown that this kind of song had been support for many kinds of peaceful resistance, had contributed to unity and solidarity.

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KAYAK - Flying high after the near-crash

In a conversation with eclipsed, Ton Scherpenzeel is very relieved that he was able to reactivate kayak. The keyboard virtuoso, who is enthusiastic about the music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, makes no secret of the fact that he has put a lot into producing a strong album with ingenious melodies and harmonic sequences. The chances of success of "Seventeen" are good, because with InsideOut Kayak have finally found a strong label partner to reach a bigger audience outside their home country.

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SCORPIONS - Ballad for Adrénaline

In 1991, "Wind Of Change" was a huge hit with the Scorpions. At the same time some of their old fans turned away from them. The most successful German band to date had damaged their rocker image. Yet melt-in-the-mouth ballads were not just part of the Scorpions overall package since "Wind Of Change": songs like "Holiday", "When The Smoke Is Going Down" or "Still Loving You" showed early on that the band had a knack for soulful numbers. Which is why she has already published several compilations that highlight exactly this side of her.

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THE MOODY BLUES - In Search of the Lost Chord

For fifty-four years Graeme Edge has been behind the drums of The Moody Blues. He is the last remaining original member of the Birmingham-based band. The 76-year-old Englishman is in his house in Florida when we reach him for a phone interview. He has a guilty conscience talking to a German journalist.

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ALICE COOPER - died ten thousand times

When the thin, sickly Vincent Damon veneer saw the light of day seven decades ago in Detroit Rock City, his parents had trouble keeping the human chick alive. His father, an Evangelical pastor, and his mother moved to Phoenix from Detroit, an industrial moloch. The dry-hot climate in Arizona got her young son much better. His constitution became so strong that he was to survive a wild career as a rock star in the seventies. The Coopers are also at home in Phoenix today.

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JOE SATRIANI - Aliens unwanted

In interviews Joe Satriani sometimes likes to give the whimsical diva. This time the guitarist presents himself quite relaxed to eclipsed, although we catch him shortly before Christmas in the middle of the preparations for the G3-US tour (with Dream Theaters John Petrucci and Def Leppards Phil Collen) and directly fall into the house with an internet rumour.

eclipsed: Joe, on Wikipedia you could now read that you joined Deep Purple again as second guitarist at the beginning of December.

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BOB SEGER - The Eternal Voice

He laughs a lot during the interview. But Bob Seger doesn't really have much to laugh about at the moment. In October, he had to undergo several neck surgeries. As a result, Seger, who in the past had hits like "Against The Wind", "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" or "Even Now", had to cancel some concerts. "But it'll be all right," he's convinced.

eclipsed: You were recently discharged from the hospital. How are you today?

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