The four Krefeld guys are PAVALLION releasing their second album "Stratospheria" today. There are only three atmospheric longtracks, which, according to the PR text, "leave a lot of room and gradually unfold into expansive epics - from the lonely, quiet echo in infinite expanses to the dense, impenetrable guitar wall. Warm, hypnotic post-rock meets modern psychedelic and reminds some of the good old Pink Floyd sound."
The legendary UK rockers are ARENAfighting cancer with the single "Poisoned" and announce tour dates for 2019...
09.04. Z7, Pratteln (CH) 10
.04. Backstage, Munich 11
.04. Das Rind, Rüsselsheim 12
.04. Carl Mine, Essen 14
.04. Neuberinhaus, Reichenbach
On the new album "Allow Yourself" the Italian Giancarlo Erra and his band Nosound initiate a change of direction. The Artrock and the Progressive of earlier albums are only present in trace elements, now the emphasis lies in the alternative area. The soft, melancholic overall sound characteristic of Nosound, however, remains. eclipsed spoke with Erra about his artistic ambitions.
eclipsed: On the new album you have shifted the focus away from Artrock/Progrogrock to more songkompatiblen structures as well as alternative and electronic. Why's that?
Georg Hahn is a Hamburg native and a commissioned musician. Now he's fulfilled a dream with Finally George. "Life Is A Killer", the debut of Finally George, is a flawless art rock album. eclipsed met the 52-year-old at the edge of the Reeperbahn Festival in Zwick, the cult music restaurant with all its rock music memorabilia. So found the interview (Hahn: "This is my first interview ever. I'm a bit nervous already") right next to an original bass guitar from Sting instead - fitting to Hahn, who is "actually a bass player".
"Being one of the guys was the best moment of my life," Jason Bonham, son of Led Zeppelin drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham, who passed away in 1980, still raves about being one of the guys at the O2 Arena Gig 2007 in London. The challenge to Jason and the "other guys" Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones was immense, because the New Yardbirds, renamed Led Zeppelin fifty years ago, have made a name for themselves in the twelve years of their existence as the most complete and biggest rock band of all time. Their reputation is not only based on their immortal studio classics.
When the hippie icon Joan Baez travelled to Germany for Easter marches in 1968, Peter Bursch walked by her side. There can be no more fitting picture for the formation of the crumbling machine that Bursch and four friends created a few months later - political and artistic upheaval was in the air. And a crumbling machine in the middle of it. Half a century, several reshuffles and time-outs later the band is currently very agile. This can be heard on the current album "Indian Camel".
His thirteenth studio album "Redemption" is not an easy one for Joe Bonamassa. The blues rock star has experienced many a difficult phase in recent years, so that he has used the blues in all its shades more than ever as a valve. His "Never Ending Tour" recently gave him a working rhythm that the 41-year-old New Yorker needs to breathe like the air. At the same time he thinks about how long he wants to stay on stage.
Brexit? Money worries? Depression? Justin Greaves, mastermind of Crippled Black Phoenix, has scared away the demons that plagued him and made room for what he can control and influence. First of all, this includes "Great Escape", the latest release of the British art and progrock formation.
Crippled Black Phoenix and their songwriter and guitarist Justin Greaves have been through hard times. The new album "Great Escape" exudes a spirit of new beginnings in many respects. The British man explains his recipe against dark forces in a conversation.
