Welcome to Prog‘s emblem new Tracks Of The Week. Six emblem new and various slices of revolutionary tune so that you can revel in.
Giant congratulations to Orion, the one-man prog steel studio venture of multi-instrumentalist Ben Jones, who romped house remaining week to win remaining week’s TOTW. Which simply is going to turn that it isn’t at all times the established artists with the large fanbases who can pop out tops right here. Irish post-rockers God Is An Astronaut got here 2nd with Norwegian proggers Dim Grey in 3rd.
The basis for Tracks Of The Week is modest – we now have collated a batch of recent releases by means of bands falling below the revolutionary umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single publish for you – makes it such a lot more uncomplicated than having to dip out and in of quite a lot of particular person posts, does not it?
The theory is to look at the movies (or pay attention if it is a circulation), revel in (or now not) and in addition to vote on your favorite within the balloting shape on the backside of this publish. Could not be more uncomplicated may it?
We will be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the name implies, every week. Subsequent week we’re going to replace you with this week’s winner, and provide a bunch of recent prog tune so that you can revel in.
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JORDAN RUDESS – SHADOW OF THE MOON
Dream Theater keyboard participant Jordan Rudess releases his newest solo album, Permission To Fly, via InsideOut Song on September 6. He is labored with British vocalist Joe Payne, and drummer Darby Todd in addition to Steve Dadaian on guitar, in addition to visitor guitar solos from Bastian Martinez. The considerate Shadow Of The Moon, which includes a glorious vocal efficiency from Payne, is the second one unmarried Rudess has launched from the impending album.
“Developing the Shadow Of The Moon video with Lightricks was once an out of this world enjoy,’ says Rudess. “Operating with the sort of proficient crew and the competition winner, and the usage of Lightricks’ new state of the art LTX studio instrument, introduced my imaginative and prescient to lifestyles in tactics I couldn’t have imagined. This collaboration in reality showcases how robust it’s to mix tune with cutting edge visible storytelling.”
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OCEANS OF SLUMBER – WICKED GAME
Any individual who were given into Texan prog metallers Oceans Of Shut eye via their 2016 duvet of The Moody Blues’ Nights In White Satin is prone to benefit from the band’s newest tackle any person else’s track. This time it is Chris Isaak’s brooding 1989 vintage Depraved Recreation, made well-known by means of its look in David Lynch’s Wild At Middle a 12 months later. The track options at the emblem new Oceans Of Shut eye studio album The place Gods Concern To Discuss, which will probably be launched via Season Of Kist on September 13.
“Once we had been in Columbia, I heard a membership remix of Depraved Recreation whilst out at a cafe,” explains drummer Dobber Beverley. “It was once so unhealthy that I had to move and make issues proper in my head.”
“We realised that the album had to finish on a observe that was once nonetheless acquainted but in addition a little bit unsettling,” provides spouse and singer Cammie.
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SUSANNA – I TOOK CARE OF MYSELF
Norwegian art-rocker Susanna shifts clear of her contemporary obsession with the poet French poet Charles Baudelaire to concentrate on love and relationships along with her upcoming album, Meditations On Love. Her persistent seek for new sounds and concepts led her to Juhani Silvola, a Finnish-Norwegian manufacturer and musician who strikes simply between pop tune, experimental sounds, and people traditions. One of the crucial delights of taking part in Susanna’s tune is that, whilst preserving her special approach, she at all times brings one thing new to the desk with each and every unencumber.
“It’s now not essentially simple to rise up for your self, to depart a scenario, a spot, a dating, to mention sufficient is sufficient, this doesn’t paintings for me, I will’t take this anymore,” Susanna says. “When is the precise time to position your foot down? There is a gigantic energy, nearly exploding, within the acknowledgement of the instant.
“My hairdresser in the course of the previous 23 years used to play ice hockey for the Oslo crew Vålerenga, so I needed to ask her: how the heck are we able to make this occur? Reason it’s completely some degree to all of it that it will have to be feminine avid gamers, because it’s rather a masculine and brutal recreation. The fits, the protective apparatus and that all of it is going on on the ice has been an unfamiliar and thrilling new surroundings for me to hunt out. What a thrill to fulfill this crew and notice them in motion.”
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TIM BOWNESS – IDIOTS AT LARGE
It is been all alternate for Tim Bowness not too long ago. He is been receiving nice critiques out at the highway along with his new band Butterfly Thoughts, he is signed to a brand new file label, and he releases his emblem new album, Powder Dry, via Kscope on August 16. Even the album sees Bowness tackling the whole lot himself, excluding the blending, which has been treated by means of his No-Guy cohort Steven Wilson. He is even were given an angrier, extra lively sound at the new album, typified by means of new unmarried Idiots At Huge.
“The track is in part about eco-apocalypse and in part about any person turning into indifferent from their friends and family on account of their an increasing number of robust ideals (ideals strengthened by means of digging deeper down the web rabbit hollow),” Bowness explains. “This isn’t a observation at the rights or wrongs of the rest, it is an statement about how idealism can regulate the process a lifestyles.
“Idiots At Huge is certainly a mix of musical extremes – prettiness and viciousness present facet by means of facet – with the atmospheric verses having one thing of the ambient/minimalist classical about them and the choruses being as shut I come to business/steel.”
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JINJER – SOMEONE’S DAUGHTER
Cherished by means of the steel scene, Ukrainian quartet Jinjer were pushing their extra revolutionary credentials of overdue, with the clicking unencumber for his or her emblem new unmarried even calling them “fashionable revolutionary steel icons.” Song to the ears of those that revel in their tune on the heavier finish of the prog spectrum and unsurprising given the band are large fanatics of the style. Somebody’s Daughter is a brand spanking new unmarried, without a doubt the start of a brand new album cycle, which highlights a extra business facet of the band, despite the fact that stays in large part now not for the faint-hearted.
“Somebody’s Daughter is a creative try to solid the sunshine at the inside global of girls, who in quite a lot of situations and instances, have had to make a choice a trail that was once traditionally made by means of males,” explains powerhouse vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk. “In a global the place ladies are incessantly underestimated and lost sight of, they’re nonetheless robust heroes who navigate hardship with power and resilience, unapologetically turning into themselves and breaking boundaries within the face of the demanding situations that face them.
“Somebody’s Daughter celebrates transition from naivety into knowledge, weak point into pressure, unwavering decision and fearlessness as our moms, sisters, daughters and better halves stroll via adversity and struggle for higher alternate. Those ladies are incessantly forgotten however they’ve earned admire. They‘ve earned mine, that is evidently!”
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KINGCROW – HOPIUM
Italian proggers Kingcrow’s will unencumber upcoming album Hopium, their first unencumber for brand spanking new label Season Of Mist, on August 23. The slow-building name monitor is the 3rd unmarried to be taken from the album, following Kintsugi and Night time Pressure. It exemplifies the variety of the quintet, one thing epitomised by means of the album itself, as they evolve from their former prog steel leanings into one thing extra exceptional altogether.
Kingcrow (Diego Marchesi – vocals, Diego Cafolla – guitars, keys, backing vocals,
Ivan Nastasi – guitars, backing vocals, Riccardo Nifosì (bass, backing vocals) and
Thundra (drums, percussion)) recorded Hopium at Rome’s Sound Below Drive, which was once produced by means of brothers Diego and Thundra Cafolla. The album additionally options Vikram Shankar of SIlent Skies on piano at the name monitor.
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