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19. February 2015

The Decemberists

THE DECEMBERISTS - Victorian Snobbery for in between

The Decemberists are not a band like any other. Where other rock groups simply record song albums at regular intervals, the US-Americans tell stories. Fables of crackling colour and seductive beauty, which can be traced back without the slightest doubt to their narrators. Her latest, shrill and colourful fairy tale book is entitled "What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World". And as much as the Decemberists are different from other bands, the new CD varies as much from the band's earlier records. Colin Meloy and his Decemberists have made a not inconsiderable change of direction on their latest record.

19. February 2015

CD-Sampler , Lonely Robot , Arcane , The Neal Morse Band , Black Star Riders , Gingerpig , Pallas , The Scenes , Eivor , Pete Ross And The Sapphire , Love Machine

LONELY ROBOT - God Vs Man (5:41)
Album: Please Come Home (2015)
Label/Distribution: InsideOut/Universal
www.insideoutmusic.com

LONELY ROBOT is the new project of John Mitchell (It Bites, Arena). On his debut album "Please Come Home", the Brit has not only taken over the songwriting, but also the production and shows that despite his outstanding instrumental abilities, he pays more attention to creating the right atmosphere.

20. January 2015

Steven Wilson

STEVEN WILSON - Free, that means alone

Two years ago Steven Wilson climbed the Prog-Olymp with his solo work "The Raven That Refused To Sing". The active Englishman has received exuberant criticism across the scene. Now he lays with "Hand. Cannot. Erase." A work as ambitious and complex as its predecessor. However, the bar is high. If and how Steven Wilson wants to overcome them and which direction he takes, he tells in a big interview.

eclipsed: Steven, would you agree with the following statement: You wanted to show the prog scene and all your critics with "The Raven" that you can always make a progressive rock album if you want to, a big one?

Steven Wilson: Partially. "The Raven" was a sign that I can make a classic progressive rock album and that I can do it better than anybody else. That sounds arrogant, but I think now that I've done that, I can't go on.

20. January 2015

Gov´t Mule

GOV'T MULE - Pink Floyd and all the others

An institution in America, Gov't Mule are still an insider tip in Germany. The band has been around for twenty years. But anyone who knows her knows that she has two identities. It now takes this fact into account with a special CD series. This raises the question: Gov't Mule and Pink Floyd - does that work together? Quite as Gov't Mule show on their latest release "The Dark Side Of The Mule".

20. January 2015

Archive

ARCHIVE - The essence of the essential

Archive's new album works like a song that has phases of relaxation, but mostly consists of rhythmic barrage fire. "Restriction" grabs the listener at the first bar of the Schlafittchen, so that he won't let go until the last note. "Restriction" is not a concept album, but rather describes a continuous stream of consciousness with few quiet spots and many rapids. The two chief archivists Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths are amazed themselves.

eclipsed: Every new archive release sounds different than anything you've done before. You reinvent yourself with every record. The motto of "restriction" seems to be "less is more".

20. January 2015

Jack Bruce , Cream

JACK BRUCE - Farewell to a Great One

With him, the rock world has lost more than one great bass player: Jack Bruce, who died on 25 October at the age of 71, was also a brilliant composer and an outstanding singer, but above all a great person, as the many comments from colleagues already in his lifetime, but especially after his death show. It was Roger Waters who once called Jack Bruce "probably the most talented bass player of all time", for Eric Clapton, who published the two and a half minute instrumental "For Jack" on his website after the news of the death of his former Cream companion, he was "an enormous inspiration", Ginger Baker was "sad that we've lost a fine man" - the list of tributes, to which Ringo Starr and Geezer Butler also contributed, could be continued for so long. Jimi Hendrix also belonged to the legion of musicians he influenced with his virtuoso bass playing. The former BBC presenter John de Bono even called him the "Miles Davis of Rock".

20. January 2015

The Waterboys

THE WATERBOYS - Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' roll

"An Appointment With Mr. Yeats", Mike Scott's tribute to the famous Irish poet W. B. Yeats, dates back three years. After a few years of disorientation, the Waterboys found their way back to their folk rock roots. Since then, other artists have recalled the Waterboys: Ellie Goulding covered "How Long Will I Love You". Prince played "The Whole Of The Moon" at a show in London. But where is the journey of the Waterboys, who will perform again in Germany in 2015, heading with their new album?

eclipsed: The last time you had your classic folk rock on it was in 2011. Now you come with a completely different style: Rock'n'Roll and American sounds. What happened, Mike?

Mike Scott: Well, I just wanted to make an album in America. I have a bunch of friends in New York and also a new American booking agent, which made it much easier for me to play shows in the USA since then. Of course I met musicians in the USA. I wanted them on a new album.

20. January 2015

Joe Cocker

JOE COCKER - Farewell to the White Soulman

No white singer had a voice as immersed in black soul as his. Hardly any of his colleagues landed so fast after the breakthrough so hard on the ground of the facts, but also only few fought their way back after the way by the drug and alcohol hell again so impressively to the top as Joe Cocker. His last fight, however, he could not win: On December 22, the 71-year-old Englishman died of lung cancer at his ranch in Colorado.

John Robert Cocker, born on 20 May 1944 in a suburb of the industrial town of Sheffield in central England, left school at the age of sixteen and completed an apprenticeship as a plumber, but already had a musical career in mind. Appearances as singer in the band of his brother Victor, from 1963 as frontman of Vance Arnold & The Avengers as supporting act for more famous acts like the Hollies and even at a concert of the Rolling Stones in their home town hall led to a record deal with Decca Records in 1964.