200 musicians name their favourite albums and insider tips
In the editorial department it was clear at some point: We don't want to be the ones to make music recommendations in the 200th issue. Instead, we asked 200 musicians to tell us their favourite album and a secret tip. Already the selection of the artists reflected what eclipsed stands for since its beginnings: stylistic openness.
THE ECLIPSED-ROUNDTABLE
The editors discuss the development of progressive rock music
Large editorial meeting on the occasion of the anniversary issue. The only item on the agenda: discussion on the current situation of progressive rock music in all its shades. During such a coffee party among music journalists, it is not impossible that one gets mumbo jumbo and sometimes becomes more fundamental, that one looks back and also tries to give views.
FOREIGNER - Lou, Luanne and Lucerne
After a good 40 years of band history, there are still new challenges even for foreigners. After all, even the Anglo-American success rockers are not on stage every day with over 100 people to present the almost inexhaustible pool of Mick-Jones compositions with orchestral force. In addition to this extraordinary experience, the band boss also talks about the anniversary concerts at which he once again met the original singer Lou Gramm.
KRAFTWERK - The Origin of "The Man-Machine"
From Golem to Frankenstein - the machine man is a vision that has moved people for centuries. The German formation Kraftwerk made the dream of the man-machine come true. Forty years ago, her groundbreaking work appeared under this name, whose influence not only radiated to musicians, but also immediately infiltrated the DNA of burgeoning musical styles in order to pass on his own heritage.
LAZULI - "We are the opposite of the heady."
Lazuli are among the most interesting representatives of contemporary prog. For years, the Southern French have been moving musically at a consistently high level with their very own style. Their current tour also leads them to their loyal German fan base.
AURI versus NIGHTWISH - Night Wishes and Dawn
The Finnish musician Tuomas Holopainen obviously loves not only the night, but also the dawn: On the one hand his symphonic metal band Nightwish is on tour again and has a career retrospective in his luggage with the double album "Decades". On the other hand, the keyboarder, together with his wife, folk singer Johanna Kurkela, and Nightwish bagpipe player Troy Donockley, founded the new band Auri and released a debut album.
DEEP PURPLE 50
Part 2: The Guitarists
Deep Purple is a band for guitarists. With Deep Purple you can and must become a hero as a guitarist. Ritchie Blackmore created the template and filled it with life like no other rock guitarist. Huge footsteps a Tommy Bolin couldn't grow into because of the drugs. And a role that Joe Satriani, despite all his brilliance on the guitar, did not want to accept. Even on Steve Morse, after two and a half decades in the band, the mighty shadow of Blackmore still falls.
KING CRIMSON - In the steady river
Hardly any band reinvents itself with such consistency as King Crimson. Over the last five decades, band monarch Robert Fripp has managed to keep his constantly changing group of musicians on a common goal and thus keep the English rock institution relevant. The live formation with three drummers, at first sceptically eyed, celebrates great success, and so King Crimson go on their longest tour in 15 years in 2018.
Recycling - The Decemberists
How time flies. It's been four years since the Decemberists enchanted their fans with "What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World". But some songs of the last album last so long that it didn't feel that long at all, especially since the waiting time was shortened very profoundly with the EP "Flora Songs" and the side project "Offa Rex". On their new CD "", the band from Portland, Oregon, is now completely repositioning itself.
Half a century after the band was founded: Andy Scott goes on a birthday tour with SWEET - and doesn't even think about stopping
Andy Scott gave The Sweet for a maximum of ten years when he joined the band in 1970 - now the guitarist is going on an anniversary tour on the occasion of the band's foundation 50 years ago. The 68-year-old, who once led the formation from bubblegum pop to glam rock and hard rock, would have liked to have played birthday concerts together with bassist Steve Priest, who is mainly on tour in the USA with a group of the same name.
The MANIC STREET PREACHERS again focus more on melodies, but are as belligerent as ever
"It's pretty loud here," drummer Sean Moore apologizes right at the start of the call. The band's new studio is under construction. In fact, it hammers and drills in the background. In view of the unwritten law of the Manic Street Preachers to always allow a more conventional album to be followed by an experimental one, however, the question literally lies in the air as to whether the background noise might not also be an inspiration for the next work.
...and much more, on 40 extra pages, plus 2 CD samplers!
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