BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - energetic look back
Bruce Springsteen's new album "Letter To You" comes as a surprise. But who in Corona and US election campaign times expected a real political album like "The Rising" after the 9/11 attacks, sees himself deceived. Even if it's not a "letter" on the current state of the world, "Letter To You" is an album full of wisdom on which the musician intensively deals with his past ...
LED ZEPPELIN - The difficult third album: Battle for the rock throne with unusual sounds
In 1969 Led Zeppelin catapulted to the top of rock with their heavy blues debut and the harder "Led Zeppelin II" released a few months later, including the hit single "Whole Lotta Love". However, with Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Free, within a very short time a number of other British bands were clawing at the throne Jimmy Page had just sat on. The answer to this was a work that counteracted the usual "higher, faster, further": Without completely omitting hard sounds, "Led Zeppelin III" was conceived as a folk album ...
FATES WARNING - At the end of a long year
It's the darned 13th studio album and will be released in the darned year 2020: "Long Day Good Night" was anything but an easy birth, that becomes clear in the course of the conversation with Fates Warning frontman Ray Alder. Since 1987 he - together with songwriter and guitarist Jim Matheos - has been at the center of the progressive metallers, some gems of the genre he has helped to forge since then ...
QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT - "It's insanely exciting to be a catalyst for Brian and Roger."
Like the British head of state, the rock heroes of the 70s and 80s named after him are not thinking of abdicating. On the contrary: since the Oscar-winning biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody", Queen has been experiencing a veritable renaissance and conquering a whole new audience
YUSUF/CAT STEVENS - "This is me, this is my story"
When it was announced a few months ago that Yusuf aka Cat Stevens would release a new recording instead of the usual remixed deluxe edition for the 50th anniversary of his famous album "Tea For The Tillerman", many critical voices were raised. As the result shows, the experiment was worth it - the 72-year-old manages to give his classic album new relevance.
JOE BONAMASSA - Back to the Island
The title of JOE BONAMASSA's new album says it all in more ways than one: "Royal Tea", conceived and composed in England and produced at Abbey Road Studios, is the "feel-good" album the New York-born California native has always wanted to make ...
THE FLOWER KINGS - "In times of this bizarre Corona virus, unfortunately, it's also about isolation"
"Islands", the Flower Kings' 14th album, is already the Swedish prog formation's sixth double-decker - and according to band mastermind Roine Stolt, it's completely unintentional. As he explains in an interview, the ambiguous title came about on a trip to Africa.
KRAAN - The pure pleasure principle
In the 1970s KRAAN were a German jazz rock institution. After several break-ups, the Ulm band has been active again since 2000 and is now celebrating its 50th anniversary. Appropriately, the new studio work "Sandglass" was released in October - a wonderfully light-hearted album on which Hellmut Hattler, Peter Wolbrandt and Jan Fride make music together in an almost telepathic way
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - "If you listen to our albums, you'll see that they're always about the same miserable topics"
On their latest opus, English post-rockers Crippled Black Phoenix once again deal with the human soul - this time adding the state of the British nation ...
ACHIM REICHEL - From the Waterkant to outer space
Achim Reichel has been in the music business for six decades. In his autobiography "Ich hab das Paradies gesehen" (I've seen paradise), the misunderstood superstar now tells of his eventful life between beat, psychedelic dream journeys and poetry set to music.
THE PRETTY THINGS release "Bare As Bone, Bright As Blood", their first acoustic album
May 15, 2020 will go down as a sad day in the long history of Pretty Things: On that Friday, Phil May, who had been a singer and founding member of the band continuously since 1963, passed away. Posthumously, "Bare As Bone, Bright As Blood", an acoustic-only album by the Pretties, has now been released ...
UFO - "You could never stay mad at someone like Pete for long"
In less than a year and a half, the rock rockurgones of UFO have recorded no less than three bereavements: On April 13, 2019, multi-instrumentalist Paul Raymond succumbed to a heart attack during a break from touring at the age of 73. Guitarist Paul Chapman passed away on June 9 of this year, his 66th birthday, and on August 14, just a week after his birthday, UFO co-founder Peter Frederick Way died at age 69 from the late effects of a serious accident ...
GALAHAD's lockdown was enough for three releases at once
The English progressive rockers, active since 1985, have made good use of the time of deceleration as a result of Coronas: With a fat 3-CD version of their album classic "Following Ghosts" (1998), the brand-new release "When The Battle Is Over" from side project Galahad Electric Company and the current solo CD of their guitarist Lee Abraham, titled "Harmony/Synchronicity", the Brits mobilize against loneliness in times of social distancing ...
SIMON COLLINS has found his very own sound with "Becoming Human"
Collins is the prime example of a cosmopolitan: Born in London, the eldest scion of Phil Collins grew up in Vancouver and Switzerland, then moved his label to offices in New York and London. For some time now, however, he has settled in Ireland. He calls the Emerald Isle "his home" with conviction. But you can guess what "journey" the 44-year-old has literally been on. And exactly that is reflected on his fourth solo album "Becoming Human" ...
SÓLSTAFIR dive into human abysses and bring good things to light
The music sounds gloomy, the vocals like a cry for help. But basically the songs of the Icelanders are very positive, about how crises can be overcome. A conversation with frontman Aðalbjörn "Addi" Tryggvason, at least, is a pleasant encounter with an optimistic person ...
THE STRUTS want to give courage in dark Corona times with their music
In April, the four English Struts, who now all live in Los Angeles because the not unironic glam rockers are better received in the USA than at home, took up residence in producer Jon Levine's home studio to record their third album "Strange Days" in ten days, strictly observing regular pool and beer breaks ...
ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER has recorded tracks to his first novel that are at peace with themselves
"Air" from 2009 was his last album release to date. After that it has become quiet around the harpist, who in the eighties - quite unusual for this instrument - even penetrated the US charts. The Swiss nature lover with the angel hair could never really be classified. If in the States he was put into the New Age assortment, his immensely positive, almost exclusively instrumental music always seemed too versatile and sophisticated for such a categorization ...
The band commune HELLO FOREVER evokes the spirit of the flower power era
In the late 60s, the Sandstorm Retreat was one of Los Angeles' best-kept secrets: a swingers' club for the rich and famous - well hidden in Santa Monica's mountainous hinterland, the so-called Topanga Canyon. Today, the property that once practiced "partner swapping to liberate society" is home to Hello Forever, an artist collective that celebrates the late sixties less with free love and more with an authentic psychedelic sound ...
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