In the darn seventh year of their collaboration, "Black Coffee" is the third studio work of the unequal couple Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa. There she is, carrying her heart on her tongue and unable to give any 08/15 interviews, and there he is, the jack-of-all-trades of blues rock, who would like to be perceived as Eric Clapton of modern times. eclipsed Bonamassa said hello to Beth Hart on the sidelines of his London concert with Black Country Communion Concerts. The magazine spoke at length with Beth Hart.

Beth Hart's career stagnated when Joe Bonamassa recorded soul and rhythm & blues classics with her for the first time in 2011. Although the singer had released "My California" the year before, a great ballad work in the field of rockpop, the star who made the "LA Song" shine in 1999 did not come from the spot. Hart played shows in front of a few hundred people. Yesterday's snow.

Long Distance Calling have long since established themselves in the German postrock and new art rock scene. After a good ten years in the business and two albums with vocals, the Münster-based instrumental rock quartet now returns to its origins and creates one of its strongest statements with the new work "Boundless".

Bassist Jan Hoffmann sees many things critically in the previous work of his band Long Distance Calling. He is, however, satisfied with the current situation that the Group has worked through over the years. Which is not only, but also due to the new album, as he emphasizes in the interview with eclipsed.

eclipsed: "Out There", the opener of the new album, goes straight to the top.

The Michael Schenker Group is now called Michael Schenker Fest. The new album "Resurrection" brings a rehearsal with the lead singers with whom the band scored in the eighties and nineties. With Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet and Robin McAuley as well as Doogie White from Temple Of Rock, the German star guitarist has gathered a whole vocal quartet around him in the studio. The fact that the many cooks have not spoiled the porridge is due to producer Michael Voss. We talked to him and Schenker about the developments at MSF.

Ritchie Blackmore will be seventy-three on the fourteenth of April. He is then on tour with Rainbow: five concerts in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Berlin and Prague. The British master guitarist has regained his enjoyment of rock music. And this basic satisfaction can also be seen in the interview. Blackmore has always been attached to the image of the capricious contemporary. In the five interviews I have conducted with him since 1985, however, he was always friendly, courteous and willing to provide information. At the same time, he is pleasantly self-critical, but often tends towards irony and humorous provocation, which is repeatedly taken at face value by quite a few press representatives. Blackmore doesn't segregate rehearsed promotional phrases. On the contrary, it sometimes seems as if it is looking for the right formulation to be able to express what it wants to say more precisely.

After reporting on the Yes splinter group under the aegis of Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman in December, Steve Howe, who presides over the "official" Yes with Alan White, Geoff Downes, Billy Sherwood and Jon Davison, now has his say. The last sign of life of his band was the concert recording "Topographic Drama - Live Across America". It was released in November 2017, two months after Yes had to cancel the pending concerts of the "Yestival" tour due to the sudden death of Howe's youngest son. Since then the visionary guitarist had retired. Now he is back in the public eye and gives information about his plans.

eclipsed: Your son Virgil's death was a disaster. Even if it is difficult, how do you cope as a private person and as a musician?

The history of the band Talk Talk, which is above all the history of Mark Hollis, reflects one of the most unusual developments in rock music. Started in the early eighties as a synth-pop act in the spirit of the New Romantics, the first album "The Party's Over" was still a child of its time. The following "It's My Life" was a huge success in Germany; the single "Such A Shame" climbed to second place in the charts. The songs were catchy, but at the same time strange, different. There was the disturbing elephant trumpet at the beginning of "Such A Shame" or the unorthodox - sometimes mumbling, sometimes hysterical - singing of Mark Hollis. What kind of band was that?

Space for the avant-garde

For the eleventh time it's "Rock meets Classic". Since 2010, bassist Mat Sinner has been the musical director and boss of the rock band, which, together with a large orchestra under the direction of Bernhard Wünsch, invites rock celebrities to celebrate their rock classics on a grand scale. This year's guest list includes Francis Rossi of Status Quo, Sagas Michael Sadler, Leo Leoni and Nic Maeder of Gotthard, Eric Bazilian of the Hooters and the Supertramp duo John Helliwell and Jesse Siebenberg. eclipsed spoke with Sinner and Sadler about the new edition.

eclipsed: One could think that after eleven tours the routine takes over - in the best sense of the word - the command at "Rock meets Classic". Is that right?

In the current music landscape there are hardly any more active figures than Joey Burns and John Convertino. They started as the rhythm section of Giant Sand and the Friends Of Dean Martinez, strengthened the backs of such different musicians as Amparanoia, Barbara Manning, De Pedro, Iron & Wine or Neko Case and defined Calexico as a gentle but committed desert rock. Twenty years after their foundation, they are taking a new step.