Welcome to Prog‘s logo new Tracks Of The Week. 8 logo new and various slices of revolutionary track so that you can revel in.
Congratulations to UK proggers Returned To The Earth (aka multi-instrumentalist Robin Peachey), whose Darkish Morality from upcoming new album Stalagmite Steeple received remaining week’s Tracks Of The Week at a canter, with US prog rockers IZZ in 2nd position and WorriedaboutSatan in an excessively decent 3rd.
The idea for Tracks Of The Week is discreet – we now have collated a batch of latest releases by means of bands falling below the revolutionary umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single submit for you – makes it such a lot more uncomplicated than having to dip out and in of more than a few person posts, does not it?
The idea for Tracks Of The Week is discreet – we now have collated a batch of latest releases by means of bands falling below the revolutionary umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single submit for you – makes it such a lot more uncomplicated than having to dip out and in of more than a few person posts, does not it?
The theory is to look at the movies (or pay attention if it is a flow), revel in (or no longer) and likewise to vote to your favorite within the balloting shape on the backside of this submit. Could not be more uncomplicated may it?
We’re going to be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the identify implies, every week. Subsequent week we’re going to replace you with this week’s winner, and provide a number of latest prog track so that you can revel in.
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TIM BOWNESS – ROCK HUDSON
Tim Bowness lately introduced that he is simply signed to steadily minded document label Kscope, after liberating his earlier six solo releases, from 2014’s Deserted Dancehall Dreams via to remaining yr’s Butterfly Thoughts. Bowness will free up Powder Dry, his new album, on August 16 and has simply shared new unmarried Rock Hudson, an continuously spiky slice of in-your-face artwork rock, on which,m just like the accompanying album, he plays all of the tools.
“With its eclectic roster and open-minded and adventurous method to track and presentation, Kscope turns out like a logical house for what I’ve been arising with of overdue,” Bowness states. “I’m excited to peer the place all of it leads.
“Like the entire album Powder Dry, the track resulted from an try to seize a fleeting feeling as correctly as I may. This time the temper was once darkish, and there is something of the spiky Submit-Punk and Electro-Pop track of the early Nineteen Eighties that captivated me as a teen within the combine. Pleasure Department, The Remedy, The The and so on…’
MAGIC FIG – PS1
San Franciscan quintet Magic Fig are a brand new one on us, however the band’s proggy psychedelia, typified by means of new unmarried PS1, carries with it the sturdy whiff of Canterbury with its fuzzy keyboards and dreamy melodies, while the medieval costumes decorating the band individuals within the video for sure has no longer long past disregarded. Like any the ones nice Canterbury bands, Magic Fig know what an excellent pop melody is all about, blending it with spectacular musicality. They free up their self-titled debut album via Siver Present Information in June 7.
“We’re making an attempt to make a track that encompasses a large number of other photographs and worlds,” explains guitarist Muzzy Moskowitz. “One thing that may achieve the outer limits of what a pop track may also be. We wish the track to put across a sense of each childlike marvel and of demise, fable and the unknown.”
KATI RAN – SÁLA
Dutch artist and Nordic People pioneer Kati Rán releases her new album SÁLA lately via Svart Information. The album is an actual deal with for any person who enjoys the icy Nordic surroundings conjured up by means of the likes of Wardruna, Heilung, Nytt Land, SKÁLD and their ilk. To have fun Rán has shared a visualiser video for the album’s identify monitor, all tribal rhythms, modified backing vocals and Rán’s personal stunning voice on the beating center of it,
“Neatly smartly, what can I say or write about this auspicious day, the place SÁLA has been born,” she says. “Any such giant tournament, in case you have put your entire center and soul and craft into it makes any artist speechless in the beginning. It’s each a abnormal feeling of reduction and mawkish nostalgia, as we free up SÁLA lately, in order that those songs can are living their very own lives and their that means have their very own interpretation for all of the listeners in the market, henceforth.
“Within the remaining two years I actually and Jaani Peuhu have tenaciously co-produced, written/re-arranged, recorded and re-recorded, edited, blended and tweaked some extra and laughed and cried day by day to deliver this album into its ultimate shape out lately as it is ‘oldsters’ of types. I feel I will talk for either one of us and say that we are hoping it should deliver some therapeutic and light-weight for any person who unearths themselves in a dismal position, excitement for any person who desires to navigate its literary depths, or just to have a laugh with it for all who revel in taking note of excellent new Darkish People track. Thanks all. Thank you you Svart Information. And my because of Jaani for believing in me and for all of the assist given whilst we produced this album in combination, when sooner than best I thought in it and labored in this on my own. It undoubtedly made a distinction.”
THE OMNIFIC – WILL-O’-THE-WISP
Australian duo-ling (see what we did there?) bass trio The Omnific pass complete on fable prog on us within the hilarious new video for Will-O’-The-Wisp, which is taken from the trio’s upcoming 2nd album, The Legislation Of Augmenting Returns, out via Wild Factor Information on June 27. Serving to make this the proggiest free up from the Melbourne trio are visitors Rohan Sharma (keyboards/programming, I Constructed The Sky) and Joshua Verco (double bass) and Pranav Roy on trombone.
“This track options rather a distinct sonic sound, with regards to what we have now performed previously, introducing many topics that we haven’t utterly explored,” explains Toby Peterson-Stewart, one of the vital band’s two bass gamers. “That is the primary Omnific track to characteristic a “Guitar”, the Fender Bass VI. It required 6 arms for us to fathom recording a guitar on certainly one of our songs!”
AL DI MEOLA – AVA’S DANCE IN THE MOONLIGHT
Al Di Meola wishes no creation to readers of Prog, being each a member of mythical prog fusion band Go back To Eternally, or for his fearless and exploratory solo albums. Ava’s Dance In The Moonlight, a tribute to Di Meola’s younger daughter Ava, is taken from his upcoming album Twentyfour which is launched via ear Track on July 19. The brand new album options the guitarist on each acoustic and electrical guitars – each characteristic on Ava’s Dance In The Moonlight – alongn with lush orchestral preparations.
“The foundation in the back of Ava’s Dance In The Moonlight got here from a heartwarming second within the studio,” explains Di meola’s document label. “As Al was once composing the track, his daughter, Ava, entered the studio to bid him goodnight. Captivated by means of the primary notes of the melody, Ava started to bounce ballet-style, offering Al with a second of inspiration that ended in the introduction of the track. Drawing from this mesmerizing efficiency and the delicate second shared together with his daughter, Al crafted a good looking ode to the innocence and magic of formative years.”
STORM DEVA – FREE
UK prog duo Typhoon Deva have made rather a touch for the reason that free up in their self-titled debut album remaining yr, with are living appearances at each remaining yr’s Prog The Wooded area and supporting John Mitchell at his contemporary solo display in Camden. The duo are vocalist and keyboard participant Carollyn Eden and prog rocking astrophysicist Dr. Stuart Clark, and as they get ready for a chain of are living presentations later this yr with a complete band, have launched the flowing Loose as a 2nd video from Typhoon Deva.
“I wrote Loose on a good looking, sunny crisp spring morning,” says founding member Carollyn Eden, “It is concerning the pleasure of existence and the immense wonderful thing about the flora and fauna round us. All of it simply felt intensely stunning and joyous. The night sooner than, an interior tale from my formative years, which I had carried over the years, unexpectedly made sense and it felt like a weight being lifted as I eventually let it pass.”
KAIPA – RELATIONVIEW
We have now completely no concept the way you pronounce the identify of the impending album from Swedish prog legends Kaipa – Sommargryningsljus! That may well be a proper tongue-twister, but there is something inherently stunning concerning the track contained therein. No longer least this folky providing, whose identify is a ways more uncomplicated to pronounce, and which includes a hanging vocal efficiency from Aleena Gibson and similarly strident guitar from In step with Nilsson. Kaipa free up Sommargryningsljus via InsideOut Track on June 28. Be happy the times of going right into a document retailer and requesting a document are in large part over!
“Essentially the most people music-inspired track at the new Kaipa album Sommargryningsljus with each violin and whistles,” explains keyboard participant Hans Ludin. “As soon as in an entire life, or for some, possibly a number of instances, you stumble upon that magical second when time is out of sight, and you might be simply amazed by means of what you enjoy. I’ve selected to name this “Revelationview”. This can be a track about this enjoy.”
ORESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE – ORGONE UNICORN
Longstanding purveyors of instrumental improvisational revolutionary space-jazz, Danish band Øresund Area Collective have signed to famend US prog label Lasers Edge for his or her [count them] forty fourth album! The band, fronted by means of Scott Heller, often referred to as Dr. Area, will free up their opus, Orgone Unicorn, in the course of the label on July 26, and to have fun have launched this suitably trippy video for the identify monitor
“It’s an honor for Øresund Area Collective to enroll in the ranks of the various nice bands which can be or were on Lasers Edge. Nice to paintings with Ken, whom I’ve recognized for lots of, a few years. I am hoping the fanatics will revel in this new journey in sound, as we proceed to push utterly improvised track into extraordinary puts.”
