Welcome to Prog‘s emblem new Tracks Of The Week. Seven emblem new and numerous slices of innovative track so that you can experience.
Congratulations to Polish prog rocker Glass Island, multi-instrumentalist and singer Wojciech Pielużek, whose Keep Underneath Quilt received final week’s Tracks Of The Week. Wojciech had observed our request for artists to ship subject material in for attention and ended up profitable, so it simply is going to turn it is at all times value a rely. Neatly accomplished to UK alt.proggrs Destiny’s Hole and Marjana Semkina, in 2d and 3rd position respectively.
The basis for Tracks Of The Week is understated – we now have collated a batch of latest releases via bands falling below the innovative umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single put up for you – makes it such a lot more uncomplicated than having to dip out and in of more than a few particular person posts, does not it?
The basis for Tracks Of The Week is understated – we now have collated a batch of latest releases via bands falling below the innovative umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single put up for you – makes it such a lot more uncomplicated than having to dip out and in of more than a few particular person posts, does not it?
The theory is to look at the movies (or pay attention if it is a circulate), experience (or now not) and likewise to vote to your favorite within the vote casting shape on the backside of this put up. Could not be more uncomplicated may just it?
We’re going to be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the name implies, each and every week. Subsequent week we will replace you with this week’s winner, and provide a number of latest prog track so that you can experience.
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LOUISE PATRICIA CRANE – MIDNIGHT VIEW
Mel Collins’ haunting saxophone sound is the very first thing you listen because the video for the jazz-tinged Middle of the night View will get underway. The multi-instrumentalist is not the one member of King Purple to characteristic on Crane’s upcoming album Netherworld, which is launched thru Strange Doll Information on June 21. Singer and guitarist Jakko Jakszyk additionally options, and produced the album too. Different visitors come with Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson in addition to Gary Husband and Peteer Blegvad.
“As a perpetual night-owl, my thoughts is maximum alive and inspiration maximum fertile when the sector is drowsing,” Crane unearths. “I wrote Middle of the night View to near the storybook; it is mirrored within the lyrics, the way in which that I sing them, the heat and prominence of Mel Collins’ saxophone — bringing the tales at the album to what I think is a pleasing and somewhat epic conclusion, and shutting the narrative arc on my album. My selected observe list is thoroughly positioned — the album starts with people and my Irish heritage, and results in innovative, night-time jazz.
“Step by step a tonal shift happens, with the primary look of Mel’s taking part in, marking the turning level for the listener. I truly love Tears For Fears’ The Operating Hour, Mel performs a blinder on that music, so I used to be decided to provide him the ground right here too — that opening solo of his truly units the tone right through. That is me elevating a martini glass to the entire cathartic adventure of writing, generating, arranging and composing those songs that make up Netherworld, and to all of the different youngsters of the evening, like me, who come alive at witching hour.”
OLIVER WAKEMAN – INSTEAD OF MY FEAR
The crystal transparent vocals of Hayley Griffiths truly elevate this uplifting observe from Oliver Wakeman’s just lately launched Anam Cara album. The primary guy himself weighs in with a satisfying keyboard solo his dad would indisputably be pleased with, whilst Oliver Day provides a placing guitar solo against the top. The music is ready discovering an interior energy when lifestyles turns into difficult. “It’s about discovering the object on your lifestyles which will provide you with energy and upon which you’ll construct your id,” Wakeman unearths. “So when issues get tricky, strip all of it again to fundamentals – a little bit like I did with the writing of this music.”
“I re-wrote this music time and again,” he continues. “I believe I’ve about 18 variations of it! I used to be on the lookout for an elusive feeling which took a very long time to seek out.
“My son is studying the right way to write track these days and he had requested me how I do know when a observe is any excellent. I informed him that if you’ll play it on a piano or an acoustic guitar and you have got a excellent melody, then you could have one thing value development on. So when it got here to As an alternative Of My Concern, I took my very own recommendation and took the music again to fundamentals – and sure, I realised there used to be a truly nice observe right here.”
HASSE FROBERG AND MUSICAL COMPANION – WHEREVER YOU MAY GO
It is been 40 years since Hasse Froberg first launched an album, Breaking The Spell, with Swedish tough rockers Spellbound! For the reason that he is been a member of The Flower Kings and introduced his personal band, Hasse Froberg And Musical Better half with 2010’s Long term Previous. The band have simply launched their 6th album, Everlasting Snapshots, from which comes the breezily uplifting Anyplace You Would possibly Pass.
“It is a idea album that offers with questions akin to how will we transform who we’re,” Froberge explains. “Is the whole thing predetermined? Is future fascinated by our lives? The name Everlasting Snapshots displays over the truth that new destiny of lives is being born each and every 2d and right here we get to practice two of them.”
EIVØR – UPP ÚR ØSKUNI / RISE FROM THE ASHES
Since signing with prog and steel label Season Of Mist, it would not be totally unreasonable for Eivør so as to add additional dimensions and textures to her lush sound and you’ll indisputably listen an additional layer of digital beats and guitar-driven threat on UPP ÚR ØSKUNI / RISE FROM THE ASHES, which is taken from the Faroese singer’s upcoming album ENN, which is launched thru her new label on June 14.
“When I used to be writing UPP ÚR ØSKUNI / RISE FROM THE ASHES, I imagined a coven of witches, previous and provide, chanting to one another around the chasms of time”, Eivør says. “This video felt like a homecoming in some ways. I had a robust urge that to seize the spirit of UPP ÚR ØSKUNI / RISE FROM THE ASHES, we had to movie within the Faroe Islands. Katrin Joensen Næss used to be the easiest selection for director, as the 2 folks shared the similar aesthetic imaginative and prescient. We had been joined via an excellent group of Faroese feminine artists whom I additionally respect. Artwork Director Jenný Kragesteen, Gown Fashion designer Maibritt Marjunardóttir and the remainder of those glorious girls all delivered their particular magic to this video. Within the spirit of the music, all of us felt that we rose from the ashes in combination growing this visible international. I could not be extra proud or extra thankful for this collaboration.”
MERCURY REV – PATTERNS
Chamber pop, psychedelia and prog all mix on Patterns, the new unmarried from US quartet Mercury Rev, It is the first unmarried to be taken from the band’s upcoming album Born Horses, the band’s 9th so far, which is launched thru Bella Union Information on September 6. The band undertaking over to those shores for reside dates this November and once more in March 2025
“After we gaze up on the stars within the sky at evening, the flickering lighting fixtures appear random. If lets zoom out and notice all the galaxies revolving round each and every different, we’d see the order in it,” the band give an explanation for. “There are handiest Patterns on most sensible of Patterns…”
“When Jonathan and I first met, something we bonded over used to be Blade Runner, each Ridley Scott’s movie and Vangelis’ soundtrack: that really feel of the previous and the longer term, the haunting noir temper and the romance of the longer term,” explains guitarist Sean ‘Grasshopper’ Mackowiak. “Born Horses faucets into a few of that. Taking a look again to adolescence, to Broadway tunes, to lonesome blues, Chet Baker, Miles Davis’ Sketches Of Spain, data that our oldsters listened to, however we put a twist into the longer term. From the start, Mercury Rev had been on a cusp, between analogue and virtual, hi-fi and lo-fi on the similar time. It used to be like Brecht or Weill, the phrases suggesting visuals, and the visuals suggesting moods. We additionally idea so much concerning the barren region in this file, and the city barren region.”
AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR – DO MÓR
Northern Eire instrumental post-rock quartet And So I Watch You from Afar have created a brilliantly trippy new video to accompany Do Mór, the primary unmarried taken from the band’s upcoming album Megafauna, which is launched thru Berlin’s Pelagic Information on August 9. Conceptually, the brand new album serves as an homage to each Portrush at the Irish North Coast and Northern Eire capital Belfast; the 2 puts the band discuss with as house.
“Megafauna is largely a distilled moniker for our friends; all the pals and characters that we’ve grown up with who’ve made us and our houses what they’re nowadays,” explains guitarist Rory Friers. “Lockdown used to be an intensely introspective and reflective procedure, which put the relief of group at the leading edge of our minds right through the writing procedure.”
PARALYDIUM – SANDS OF TIME
Swedish symphonic prog rockers Paralydium will free up their 2d album, Universe Calls, throughout the Frontiers label on August 23. It follows 2020’s Global’s Past debut and gives and confident step up, stuffed with melodic passages and a posh musicality. Sands Of Time is the primary unmarried to be launched from the album
“Sands Of Time takes you on a adventure thru huge deserts the place a person rises to energy, destined to dominate the sector,” explains guitarist John Berg. “This robust observe blends mighty melodies with hard-hitting riffs and grooves, atmosphere the tone for the album and hinting at what is to come back.
“On this album, we now have delved deeply into our innovative roots” – the band defined. “Lengthy-time lovers will acknowledge the expansive, open-world qualities paying homage to our EP, now that includes longer tracks and broader preparations. The album is a mix of Worlds Past with a extra epic manner, whilst additionally absolutely exploring our innovative facet with complicated time signatures and immersive sections.”
