Even at the age of seventy-one, Donovan Leitch is still extremely active. The Scottish singer-songwriter tours regularly, transforming his concerts into spiritual happenings. He not only plays his timeless classics. He tells numerous anecdotes about the sixties and gives the audience tips for spiritual self-discovery. He is currently on tour with his bootleg Joolz Jones.

Joolz Jones is the grandson of Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones, who died in 1969. Donovan married his ex-girlfriend Linda Lawrence in 1970 and adopted their son Julian. eclipsed caught Donovan and Jones by telephone at Donovan's country house in Ireland. The creator of pieces such as "Atlantis", "Mellow Yellow", "Jennifer Juniper" or "Sunshine Superman" tells of the upcoming concerts and above all about the magical sixties; the rather shy Jones, however, sometimes feels somewhat uncomfortable in the role of the musical heir.

As a member of Genesis, Tony Banks wrote music history. Thanks to his talent for composition and the innovative use of various keyboard instruments, he left his mark on the group. Since Genesis were only active once after 1998, the Briton increasingly focused on composing orchestral works. In February, he released his third album with classical music, mainly borrowed from the late Romantic period. According to the number of pieces it contains, it bears the simple title "5".

After "Misplaced Childhood", Marillion's 1994 opus "Brave" is now also being re-released: as a luxurious boxed set filled to the brim with Steven Wilson remixes, a concert recording and a new documentary. eclipsed spoke exclusively with Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery, Mark Kelly and Ian Mosley about the creation of a dark masterpiece that has lost none of its fascination even after twenty-four years.

Fourteen years between two albums - these are dimensions that a band first has to be able to afford. They require a healthy self-confidence, but also devoted fans who have the patience of an angel. As with the duo Billy Howerdel and Maynard James Keenan, who form the creative nucleus of A Perfect Circle, where the time factor doesn't seem to matter: songs are only released when they are really perfect. When the artistic vision has been exhausted to the last and the press has once again been properly presented. An exhausting prelude for a big album called "Eat The Elephant". That's just part of A Perfect Circle..

Stuart Nicholson has deleted the word consistency from his vocabulary. Because his band Galahad lives with constant changes since their foundation in 1985. Not only their line-up has changed - partly inevitably, partly intentionally - again and again. Also their style was and is as changeable as with hardly any other formation in the Prog. With their new studio album "Seas Of Change" the English from Dorset continue this tradition.

The time of disco sounds and dance/trance influences that took some getting used to and that could still be heard on "Battle Scars" and "Beyond The Realms Of Euphoria" is over for Galahad. "We always had a lot of influences, more than just prog, for example folk and hard stuff like Rammstein", says Nicholson and adds explaining: "You have to consider: When we started, many of us were still teenagers. A lot of things just started to develop."

Hoboken is an unsightly small town in New Jersey that twilights on the Hudson River opposite Manhattan. She didn't give much to the world. Well, yes: Frank Sinatra was born here one hundred and three years ago, and two stylistically influential bands in recent American rock history come from here. One, Sonic Youth, is already history itself, the other, Yo La Tengo, is just reinventing itself on "There's A Riot Going On".

"It Could Be Home" is actually an album debut that took over thirty years to release. Emerging from the ashes of Liverpool-based post-punk eccentrics A Better Mousetrap and Warrington art rock band After The Stranger, Plenty was formed in 1986 and was Tim Bowness Band before the well-known No-man Band. Taking up the accents of contemporary artists like The Blue Nile Prefab Sprout as well as David Bowie and Peter Gabriel, Plenty's music alternated between electro-pop anthems, moving ballads and ambient experiments.

Earthless have shone on their previous studio albums with long instrumental tracks full of guitar solos that are just as long. This mixture of retrorock and psychedelic is also represented on "Black Heaven", the fourth album of the trio from San Diego, but the total of six tracks have become shorter and four of them even have vocals. But of course all the guitar solos are still in focus. eclipsed spoke to guitarist Isaiah Mitchell.

eclipsed: The tracks on the new album are much shorter than on the first three albums. Why this development?

Isaiah Mitchell: This time we had written so many songs and many were just worth it to get on the album. They literally screamed for it and so formed the album. The album just wanted it that way and we listened to it

eclipsed: You don't feel like 15-minute guitar solos anymore?