RPWL - The Attack (Live) (10:20)
Album: A New Dawn (Live) (2CD) (2017, Release: 14.07.)
Label/Distribution: Gentle Art Of Music/Soulfood
www.rpwl.net

With "A New Dawn", the Freising art rockers have presented a great success to ambitious German rock theaters. But also on CD the floy music convinces, which is performed with instrumental impressive force and verve like the marching "The Attack", which is exemplary for the fight against populists and hooligans.

Bjørn Riis - Forever Comes To An End (8:17)
Album: Forever Comes To An End (2017)
Label/Distribution: Karisma/Soulfood
www.bjornriis.com

The US-American David Judson Clemmons found a new home in Berlin many years ago. Rock music, highly emotional rock music is what he presents on his solo albums and with his two bands JUD and The Fullbliss. While his solo works are arranged more spartanly and The Fullbliss rock with a smoldering and longing, JUD is a heavy and rough band. However, David Judson Clemmons is always concerned with the everyday struggles, society and politics that can make the life of the so-called little man a strain. With eclipsed the Berliner-by-choice talks about his bands, about his life, about the present time and about the recently released JUD album "Generation Vulture".

eclipsed: The new JUD album "Generation Vulture" starts with a rough guitar thunder. Is that the sound that corresponds to how you see the world, society and "schizoid humanity" (as you call them in the new song "Find Us, Heal Us")?

eclipsed: The album title "Fresh Air" sounds relaxed and light at first. But then it did not become a loose and light album ...

Jean-Hervé Péron: No, it's not that. If you currently look at the world around you, what is happening in Turkey, in the USA and elsewhere, then it stinks enormously. I think a little fresh air would be in order.

Werner "Zappi" Diermaier: Concerning the piece "Fresh Air": We equipped it live with a prelude, with a drone in which the rhythm slowly develops. The intro was long, it was exciting, with different instruments. Then we got into this "Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom." And then it gets better and better. You can play it almost endlessly. Such a piece lives by its length.

eclipsed: On the second part of this track you are more rhythmic than ever or at least not for a long time. And that means something.

He was tired and exhausted, had already talked too much the last few days and had to step down a bit today. What the manager of Roger Waters passes on to the representative of the New York record company in the best sergeant manner shows little respect for half a dozen journalists who travelled from all over the world to the Big Apple to speak to the former Pink Floyd mastermind. All dates on a rainy Thursday noon at the end of April will be severely shortened. A nonchalant approach, which is not even communicated to most of those affected, in order to avoid resentment.

It's warm in the lobby of the Berlin hotel "nhow". The sun shines through the panorama windows, which provide a clear view of the Spree. Anathema's singer and rhythm guitarist Vincent Cavanagh strolls relaxed through the lobby of the "nhow", which sees itself as "Europe's first music hotel", playing some melancholic notes on the piano. The 43-year-old visibly enjoys the atmosphere, the cappuccino, the sun and also the questions about the new Anathema album "The Optimist" as well as other important things of life.

eclipsed: You were born in Liverpool, and I suspect that every young man..

Vincent Cavanagh: Thanks for the compliment.

eclipsed: I'd love to. I guess every young man from Liverpool is a fan of the Beatles and FC Liverpool.

"I've been living in New York City for over 40 years now," muses Mick Jones (72), "but whenever I'm in London, like now, I feel at home. I've remained a foreigner, even after all these years. For Johnny Hallyday and others I wrote songs for several years and was a session musician in France. Those were exciting years when I made friends with the Beatles and Jimmy Page. I think this time in France had its share in the later Foreigner sound."

Friends of the Beatles - so it's not so surprising that Jones played on George Harrison's solo album "Dark Horse" (1974). "Now that I've said it myself in one sentence, these are really the two cornerstones of our sound: the Beatles and Jimmy Pages Led Zeppelin. Between France, good old Rock'n'Roll, a little bit of mine and Ian McDonalds prog phase with Spooky Tooth and King Crimson and of course a lot of Lou Gramm."

Long, Long Way From Home

The title of the new album of Samsara Blues Experiment, "One With The Universe", sounds very positive. It's like there's somebody in the right place with you and the world. Much, however, has come about against a serious background. "There's a lot of personal stuff in this album," says Chris Peters, mastermind of the trio, "maybe more than ever before. Three of the five songs are lyrically dedicated to my ex-girlfriend. That breakup had ripped me into quite a hole. I wanted to free myself creatively from it. It also doesn't make sense to moan, even if that often seems to be the order of the day in the blues. 'My baby left me this morning...' - but in the end you have to get over it."

Actually, "Terra Circus" came into being by chance. In 2014 Tom should play "The Perc" Redecker with his project Sun Temple Circus as support for Agitation Free. But the tour fell into the water, the concept remained. And since the majority of Sun Temple Circus participants were founding members of Electric Family anyway, it was only a small step towards reviving the psychedelic rock formation.