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24. August 2016

Jeff Beck

72 and not a bit quiet - JEFF BECK offers a powerpack consisting of album, autobiography and tour

Nobody knows which louse Geoffrey Arnold Beck ran into his liver. The fact is that the old master released "Loud Hailer" in mid-July, his first studio album in six years, and received euphoric reviews. But he doesn't want to talk about it. And he only wants to present it live in the USA, where he has been touring with Buddy Guy since the beginning of August - in casinos, provincial nests and monumental venues like the Hollywood Bowl. A finger exercise for ego and pension funds - while he cancelled all activities in Europe. Probably because he has no desire for clubs, a comparatively small salary and the questions of the local press.

24. August 2016

Dream The Electric Sleep

More than just music - DREAM THE ELECTRIC SLEEP take their educational mission seriously

Strong women, struggle and social disruptions have always been at the centre of Matt Page's texts. While the debut "Lost And Gone Forever" (2011) was based on the Oscar-winning documentary "Harlan Country, USA" about a miners' strike in Kentucky in 1976 (Page also told the story of his grandparents here), the singer/guitarist on his successor "Heretics" (2014) was mainly concerned with the suffragettes movement at the beginning of the 20th century, which finally led to the implementation of women's suffrage in the USA and Great Britain. Matt Page is always particularly interested in the respective motifs, the contradictions and the social processes that are set in motion. And so "Beneath The Dark Wide Sky" fits seamlessly into this complex of themes.

24. August 2016

Michael Kiwanuka

No more of that! - MICHAEL KIWANUKA takes position with its new CD

The British soul singer and guitarist Michael Kiwanuka lets himself fall back deep into the late sixties with his second CD "Love & Hate". However, the topics he takes up in the process are highly topical. Seldom has timelessness been so focused and explosive as on this CD of a 29-year-old who exclaims: "Stop with no matter" and intervenes again. Between the pegs Pink Floyd and Marvin Gaye he ignites a firework of emotional drama.

eclipsed: The CD reflects the personal world of your experiences and emotions, but also anticipates global aspects of Brexit and the current race riots in the USA.

24. August 2016

Blues Pills , Monkey3 , Opeth , Theodore , CD-Sampler

BLUES PILLS - Little Boy Preacher (3:33)
Album: Lady In Gold (2016)
Label/Distribution: Nuclear Blast/Warner
www.bluespills.eu

After the smooth introduction with the title track, the second Blues Pills-Longplayer really takes off with "Little Boy Preacher". Both on the album and on the sampler song the band from Örebro seems more soulful, subtle and mature. Elin Larsson in particular benefits from this orientation.

22. June 2016

Blues Pills

RETRO? ROCK! - Blues Pills and the New Generation Rock

Rock'n'roll in the conference room. Blues Pills have come this far by now. During the first personal conversation eclipsed with Dorian Sorriaux and Elin Larsson, only a few kilometres away from the current meeting point in a noble hotel in Cologne, things were much less civilized: half-naked and sweaty after a support gig for Orchid, the band welcomed us in the backstage room of the mangy, albeit charming, building 9. That was less than three years ago, and even then it was clear to us that a rough diamond was beginning to sparkle. The 2014 release of the first longplayer led to further pats on the back. But now with the second album in their luggage there is hardly any stopping. Lady In Gold" puts the Blues Pills at the top of the retro rock movement.

eclipsed: Journalists always break off when they have to describe where the multinational band Blues Pills comes from. But now you all live in Örebro, Sweden. So: Blues Pills from Sweden, right?

22. June 2016

The Beach Boys

THE BEACH BOYS - The Cathedral of Pop

Van Dyke Parks, Brian Wilson's co-author of 1966/67, sits in the garden of his house in Pasadena and ponders: "'Pet Sounds' was an album that totally surprised me," ponders the little white-haired man, "because it was completely different from his predecessors who had cultivated this kitschy surf sound. It was plain music by plain boys from the white middle class. But what followed was a revolution. Perhaps even the most ambitious and best American pop music has ever produced. It was the Cathedral of Pop, an imposing building that still stands today and attracts many visitors."

22. June 2016

Eric Clapton

ERIC CLAPTON - Closed Society

Originally started to raise money for Eric Clapton's drug clinic in the Caribbean, the "Crossroads Guitar Festival" is now considered an institution where the best guitarists on the planet get together. Now Clapton, who has just released the respectable old work "I Still Do", draws an impressive interim balance of "his" festival with the elaborate three-CD box set "Crossroads Revisited". The idea was born from an embarrassment: Eric Clapton, after all one of the wealthiest rock musicians of the scene, needed money. Not for himself personally, but for a project that was close to his heart. In 1998, the "Crossroads Centre" addiction clinic on the Caribbean island of Antigua, initiated by the once alcoholic and heroin-addicted guitarist, opened its doors after five years of planning, preparation and construction. However, the necessary funds were lacking to finance the ongoing operation of the clinic.

22. June 2016

Jon Anderson , Roine Stolt

JON ANDERSON & ROINE STOLT - Pure Teaching

When a prog obsessive like Roine Stolt joins forces with a scene icon like Jon Anderson, you can expect great things. Many Yes fans hope that this collaboration will be no less than a worthy album in the tradition of the Prog pioneers. The fact that he was booted out of "his" band may not have completely wound Anderson yet. But he's been looking for ways to keep making yes music. One of these ways brought him together with Flower King boss Roine Stolt. eclipsed talked to both artists about this surprising, but somehow also logical cooperation.

eclipsed: Recently you were on stage with Steve Hackett, now the album with Jon Anderson. You obviously like to surround yourself with legendary musicians?