Tentant ton truc là... je vais essayer d'écouter ça !

Tiens, puis pendant que j'y suis, tu devrais écouter THE THIRD ENDING, hautement recommandable .

Merci , je vais tenter THE THIRD ENDING comme tu me le conseilles !
Je suis assez novice en prog ... à part GENESIS période Peter GABRIEL , YES , MARILLION , DREAM THEATER , PORCUPINE TREE et GLASS HAMMER ( que beaucoup trouvent nuls ) ( et j'en ai peut-être oublié un ou deux ) , je n'y connais rien !
Merci pour le conseil

Tout ce qui bon est prog, c'est bien connu (quand tu lis certains sites spécialisés, c'est un peu ce qui en ressort)... ou plutôt tout ce qui prog est bon

HE FLOWER KINGS - The Sum Of No Evil Due In October
Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007

InsideOut Music has issued the following press release:

Swedish Prog masters, THE FLOWER KINGS, have entered Varispeed Studios in southern Sweden to work on their 10th studio album entitled, The Sum Of No Evil. Varispeed is known for its vintage gear producing a great ‘70s sound and vibe.

“Altogether this album is a definite step back to what we did around Retropolis/Stardust/Flower Power,” says mainman Roine Stolt, “a more symphonic, melodic style with more keyboard/guitar interplay.

“We're working on six songs,” continues Roine, “all just working titles: 'Love Is The Only Answer' a 26-min. epic, very symphonic in the vein of early TFK songs (think Stardust or Garden Of Dreams); 'Trading My Soul' cinematic melancholic ballad, big sound; 'Brimstoned Again' a Tomas Bodin instrumental with frantic drumming from Zoltan, as prog as it gets; 'We're Life In Motion' very upbeat and positive melodic TFK'ish 13-min track, possible closer of the set; 'Dukular', a very keyboard-oriented 13-min track that is close to early ELP, Genesis and Refugee, great catchy hook, Hasse sings; 'Sum Of No Reason' - a heavy riffing and very proggy melancholic 12-min tune, about religion, business and wars, think UK with Bozzio, lots of odd time signatures and polyrhythm, drop-tuning etc.”

To the surprise of a lot of fans, this album also features the return of Hungarian drumming prodigy, Zoltan Csorsz.

Look for The Flower Kings’ The Sum Of No Evil' in stores this October with a tour to follow.


si si, déjà le nouvel album des Flower Kings

Hum... Le dernier m'avait pas spécialement, mais, sans raison apparente, celui-ci je le sens bien !

"RIVERSIDE: have released an EP on the Mystic Production label entitled "02 Panic Room" ...

1. O2 Panic Room
2. Lucid Dream IV
3. Back To The River
4. O2 Panic Room (remix)"

Riverside, ce sont les polonais ?

Oui, eux-mêmes, lex excellents Polonais.

Pour les "fans", une curiosité... :

JORDAN RUDESS: The fourth rock solo album by Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess is now available for pre-order and will be released on September 7th. The Road Home is a collection of Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant and ELP covers played by Rudess with the assistance of a wide array of friends from the scene: Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) Neal Morse (Spock's Beard) Ed Wynne (Ozric Tentacles), Kip Winger (Winger), Rod Morgenstein (Dixie Dregs), Bumblefoot (Guns'N'Roses), Marco Sfogli (JamesLaBrie), Nick D'Virgilio (Spock's Beard), Ricky Garcia (Lafee).

Jordan Rudess - The Road Home

1. Dance On a Volcano
2. Sound Chaser
3. Just The Same
4. JR Piano Medley
5. Piece of The Pi
6. Tarkus

(The piano medley features excerpts of Soon, I Talk To The Wind, And You And I and Supper's Ready)

What people are saying :

Mike Portnoy, drummer of Dream Theater says:
"A PROG MASTERPIECE!!! You've taken these songs to a whole new level, yet totally respected the original compositions. One of my favorite CD's of 2007!"

Jon Anderson, singer of Yes says:
"'Soon' is one of those magical songs that popped in to my head one day on tour, to hear Jordan dancing around the melody is a joy, such wistful playing"

Keith Emerson, keyboardist from ELP says:
My father, by way of encouragement, often said to me “You’ll never make any money writing music other people can’t sing or play.” As I never wrote this conceptual piece to make money, I wish he were still around to hear Jordan Rudess and his fine musicians’ version of Tarkus; taking a composition I am proud of to another level. Unlike Aki Kuroda’s marvelous classical treatment of the same piece, Jordan’s version spits cordite, making Tesla Coils run for cover - so you better duck listening to this one! He takes no prisoners, and handles it head on, even the solos. Rather like George Lewis’s orchestration of the Miles Davis’s solo on the original “So What,” Jordan sometimes utilizes my improvised solos of the original recording, something I find both remarkable and disturbing at the same time. “Stones Of Years” complete with Tarkus cannon shots in the solo brought a smile to my face, while I just had to admire his piano modulations on the same piece that are absolutely beautiful. Undoubtedly, throughout, Jordan’s keys shine along with his band and when he “mixes” it on Aquatarkus, it’s then that he makes it his own.

Derek Schulman, singer from Gentle Giant says:
So... With finger pops and de-tuned piano syncopation, Jordan Rudess does Gentle Giant!!! What a concept!!! I was waiting with my toes curled, expecting the worst, but found myself smiling with slightly amused satisfaction, that these guys not only pulled this off, but made more of the song than Gentle Giant as a band did. Congratulations to Jordan and his cronies for doing the band and the song justice... we are very appreciative and honored. The one thing that must be said though: This song would definitely be voted off American Idol immediately... thank god for that."

Le prochain FLOWER KINGS, suite :

"THE FLOWER KINGS: The new album is finished. Roine stolt posted the following news update on his forum:
NEW ALBUM MIXED AND MASTERED !!!

New Flowerkings album is mixed mastered and ready to go to printers !!!!

Yes it is true ,I've finally escaped from the monster that is our new album. It took about 6 weeks longer than expected....but that was expected ...huh.
Well it was raining most of the time in Sweden anyway so why not put some extra time into getting the album mix more than excellent,there are so many facets to the EQ of a hi-hat anyway ...

Is it any good ? well ask me today and I'd say it's crap...just like any other rock album out there... however if you ak me in 2 weeks from now I will probably say it is our finest album to date...and this time I can honestly say so.

All members have put in excellent work and lot's of soul and comittment,the songs are full of fantasy and flair,just as you'd expect from Flowerkings.
Most of all, this is Flowerkings "to the max",I can safely say that anyone that have ,at one point in their life loved Flowerkings ,or progressive rock,as we know it , will most certainly LOVE this album. It has everything a prog lover would kill for and delivered with both skill and passion with no cheese moments and no pointless prognoodling just for the sake of proggin', and no we don't use any make up or masks like PG did, nor did we order dead stuffed animals to the studio when recording and Jonas had no 5000 pound Persian carpet . But I drank an awful lot of tea,all sorts,all flavours...
It is is quite keyboard-heavy at times ,just as progrock was in the 70's ,lot's of true analog Hammond B3, Wurlizer, Rhodes pianos, Minimoog and CS 80 galore .
I think Tomas even played a school organ from the 50's and he found a few other cheesy 70's Yamaha and ACE organs too...however he didn't play the organ.

It has lots of cool busy drumming and bassing from Zoltan and Jonas ,just as a prog rhythm section should do,top 70's vibe...some cool epic guitarleads and Hasses hi pitch vocal that deliver the epic chill,hi as ever and stronger than before and my quirky lower vocal that take you to unseen places or to the WC for an unexpected throw up ,I know my accent is terrible and I'm "no real singer" but I insist in doing it anyway 'cause I just love to torture some fans of "real singers", it gives me such a sadistic pleasure,I'm sooooo perverted.

Probably an album that need time to grow ,just as prog should be ,but yet it has some cool instant hooks ,but NO popsongs,No jazz noodling (unless you concider Crimson or Zappa to be jazz) and NO ambient experiments , just pure symphonic prog ......and some selleri and carrot.
When I say symphonic it means the album have a few sections that are grander and more symphonic than any other Flowerkings CD ,grander than grand .....bigger than big.....fatter than fat......
On one track we have a 320 men/women choir flown in from Budapest and 3 imported german Church organs that was taken down and built up again in the studio for that grand final chord, last song ...you know the sustained one that last for 54 seconds. THAT's what I would call a REAL prog epic ending.

But Hey , why talk about the album .......it has to be heard ..........I've heard it too many times ( about 3754) and you haven't heard it at all.

Well, who said the world is fair to a progfan ?

In a few weeks we'll put up a few teasers on MySpace .

Help us propel this release into a bestseller and chances that we'll tour YOUR turf will be good ,to very good ......who knows maybe excellent .
We might even do an extra encore.......buy Tomas a coke and he'll do it .

By chance is there anyone out there who own a VW bus in good shape and wanna sell it , I'll have Klaus Voorman do a paintjob and we'll get our stuff in and ..... tour , rice and noodles.......US and Euro .......all year long ,playing these songs for you.......we're dying to get this material in shape and play it live ......We'll rule prog for evermore,put ANY other band to shame !

Place a pre - order very soon .

Roine."

Toujours aussi productif les flower kings. Bon on va voir ce qu'ils nous reservent...

Voilà déjà ce qu'ils nous réservent pour la pochette. J'aime, on s'y croirait.



"THE FLOWER KINGS: Above is the artwork for the new Flower Kings album The Sum Of No Evil which is slated for release on September 28th in Europe and October 9th in the USA through Inside Out Music.

The tracklisting of the new album is as follows:
One More Time
Love Is The Answer
Trading My Soul
The Sum Of No Reason
Flight 999 (Brimstone Air)
Life In Motion
The album will be available in a regular edition as well as a ltd edition digipack which contains a bonus CD with 4 extra tracks and a "making of".

A preview medley of the new album can be heard on the Flower Kings Myspace site."

FISH: More artwork revealed this week as Fish published the first glimpses of Mark Wilkinson's artwork for the forthcoming album 13th Star on his website. The album is slated for release early September and will be available for pre-order from Fish' website from next week onwards.

13th Star was launched earlier this week in Haddington, Scotland, on the date originally planned as Fish and Heather Findlay's wedding. You can read Fish' report of the event here.
There are rough mixes of four of the new songs to be found on Fish' Myspace."

"RICHARD BARBIERI: For years Things Buried, the debut solo album of Porcupine Tree keyboardist Richard Barbieri was only available at gigs and through internet mailorder, but it will now finally be given a proper release through Snapper Music.
Amazingly, considering his musical career has spanned four decades, Things Buried is Richard Barbieri’s debut solo album.
This career has taken him from the seminal recordings he made with Japan in the seventies and eighties through to the current worldwide success he is enjoying with Porcupine Tree.

Things Buried is an instrumental work that highlights Barbieri's unique approach to sound and mood, ranging from textural atmospherics to dynamic rhythmic passages.
The album also features the distinctive styles of Percy Jones (Brian Eno, Brand X) on fretless bass guitar and Andy Gangadeen (The Bays, Massive Attack) on drums.

Richard has recently completed a world tour with Porcupine Tree, supporting the release of the top 40 album ‘Fear Of A Blank Planet’ and continues to regularly guest with the highly-rated improvisational electronic group The Bays.
In addition to his recording and live work Richard has also been invited to programme sounds for new software by leading synthesiser and software producers. Recent work includes contributing to the prototype of the new Roland V Synth and Propellerheads’ Reason 4 software.

Visit the Things Buried mini-site and hear tracks from the album.

Richard Barbieri - Things Buried

Nevada
Fear And Trembling
Light On Glass
Drops Of Mercury
Flaw
Medication Time
Red Square
Path Not Taken"



Bouarf... J'aime pas du tout les extraits, musique trop synthétique for me.

"Official Rapid Eye Movement release dates! 16.08.2007 11:01

We already know the official release dates of the new Riverside "Rapid Eye Movement" album. The last part of "Reality Dream" trilogy will be released on Inside Out label on the 28th of September in Europe and on the 9th of October in the USA. Naturally, we're planning to go on tour again and we'll let you know about the details soon.

And here are the titles of the tracks on our new album:

Part One: Fearless

1. Beyond The Eyelids
2. Rainbow Box
3. 02 Panic Room
…
4. Schizophrenic Prayer
5. Parasomnia

Part Two: Fearland

6. Through The Other Side
7. Embryonic
8. Cybernetic Pillow
9. Ultimate Trip"



Cool, un bon album en vue !

Du plagiat de PORCUPINE TREE, vous en voulez ? En voilà ! Ici, ça s'appelle ABIGAILS GHOST et on s'y croirait, mais bon...

J'attends le Riverside avec impatience !

Je vais quand même jeter une oreille sur Abigails machin, sait-on jamais !

Tu me diras Jané... mais moi j'ai franchement du mal là, c'est trop 'identique'.





"JETHRO TULL: releases "Live at Montreaux DVD and CD" on August 20th ...
Jethro Tull's 2003 performance at the famous Montreaux Jazz Festival is now on DVD and 2-Disc CD. The DVD sound includes 5.1, DTS, and Dolby Surround.
DVD TRACKLIST:
Some Day The Sun Won’t Shine For You
Life Is A Long Song
Bourée (Version de Noël)
With You There To Help Me
Pavane
Empty Café
Hunting Girl
Eurology
Dot Com
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Fat Man
Living In The Past
Nothing Is Easy
Beside Myself
My God
Budapest
New Jig
Aqualung
Locomotive Breath
Cheerio

Disc One
Some Day The Sun Won’t Shine For You
Life Is A Long Song
Bourée (Version de Noël)
With You There To Help Me
Pavane
Empty Café
Hunting Girl
Eurology
Dot Com
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Fat Man

Disc Two
Living In The Past
Nothing Is Easy
Beside Myself
My God
Budapest
New Jig
Aqualung
Locomotive Breath
Cheerio

Sound Samples can be heard HERE!"

Je les avais vu en 2004 le Tull à Colmar, vraiment sympa comme concert (avec Manfred Mann et Canned heat).

Les Flower Kings ? Quelles sont les différences entre les derniers albums qu'ils ont sorti ? (enfin, si y'en a bien sur ). Je les ai pas écouté, enfin eux dans le genre fonctionnaires du prog, ça se pose là.

Libre à toi de ne pas aimer THE FLOWER KINGS Fishbowlman, moi je considère que c'est un groupe essentiel dans le Prog de "maintenant".. Quant aux derniers albums je les trouve moins bons que les précédents, ce qui en fait est souvent le cas d'un groupe qui dure. Prions pour le prochain contredise ça.