Ça sera pour 2008, mais c'est une nouvelle qui peut déboucher sur un CD de big qualité ! :

"ASIA: Geoff Downes, Steve Howe, Carl Palmer & John Wetton announce the release of a brand new studio album on Frontiers Records.
Asia, the first legendary super group to emerge with the dawn of the MTV-age, reunited in 2006 with its original line-up. The founding members Geoff Downes, Steve Howe, Carl Palmer and John Wetton all had experiences in Classic Rock icons such as Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, King Crimson and The Buggles, and released one of the most enduring and commercially successful debuts of all time. Simply entitled “ASIA”, the album stayed at the #1 spot on the Billboard Top 100 album chart for an astounding 9 weeks in 1982. Only a handful of albums such as Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” have been #1 on the Billboard charts for a longer time.

ASIA celebrated the 25th anniversary of the debut album’s release with a world tour that brought more than 70 successful dates. During their time and work together, the four musicians started to write new songs and, in the summer 2007, they started working on the recording of a brand new all original studio album. The natural choice for the band was to sign a worldwide deal with Frontiers Records, the Italian label which has a solid trademark for quality, enthusiasm and professionalism in Classic Rock Music.

“Our initial optimism was more than rewarded by the enthusiasm of our fans” says, John Wetton. Adds Geoff Downes: “ It’s great finally to give some new music to those Asia fans who have remained with us patiently all these years”. “There is a certain chemistry and energy that comes out when the four of us are working together and the new material reflects this”, says drummer Carl Palmer. “This is the REAL ASIA”, states guitarist Steve Howe “and the new album will be the landmark of our enthusiasm and pleasure to work together again”. Geoffrey Downes concludes: “We’ve all remained dedicated to our craft of making compelling and powerful music. After many years apart, I think we all have a new and very fresh attitude to the music. I am looking forward to playing the new songs on stage”.

Recording is well underway with a commercial release scheduled for April 2008. The new album will also see the return of Roger Dean who will provide one of his paintings for the cover art. ASIA has already announced a new UK Tour in March 2008, where they will be showcasing the songs from the yet untitled album for the first time. More tour dates are being settled in the USA and Japan for the rest of the Spring 2008, with a full European tour to follow.
In other news Asia will now be in Louisiana in April. The band will play April 26th at the Paragon Casino (Mari Center 2) in Marksville, LA. In addition, the Harrisburg, PA show has been moved from April 1st to April 7th, and the Ridgefield, CT show on April 9th has been canceled. Refunds are available through the Ridgefield Playhouse. The latest itinerary can always be found on the Asia website."

Quel line-up quand j'y pense...

Vu sur www.originalasia.com, la jaquette du nouvel ASIA :

Et la liste des titres :

01. Never Again
02. Nothing's Forever
03. Heroine
04. Sleeping Giant / No Way Back / Reprise
05. Alibis
06. I Will Remember You
07. Shadow of a Doubt
08. Parallel Worlds / Vortex / Deya
09. Wish I'd Known All Along
10. Orchard of Mines
11. Over and Over
12. An Extraordinary Life
Bonus acoustique:
- An Extaordinary Life (Edition limitée Europe)
- I Will Remember You (Edition limitée Japon)

Ils seront sur scène le 18 mai à la Halle de Martigues et le 26 mai au Zénith de Lille

Alors là, une news (vue sur www.dprp.net) qui m'étonne et me réjouit au plus haut point ! :

"RIVERSIDE: News on the Riverside Forum announce the release of a new album entitled "Schizophrenic Prayer" to be released on 17th March 2008!

Schizophrenic Prayer
Rainbow Trip
Behind The Eyelids
Rapid Eye Movement
Schizophrenic Prayer
Total Time: 32:46

Bonus:
02 Panic Room (videoclip)"

Vu au même endroit que toujours :

"NO-MAN:’s sixth studio album, Schoolyard Ghosts, is scheduled for release on KScope/Snapper Records on 12th May 2008. Compared to its predecessor (2003's atmospheric Together We're Stranger) Schoolyard Ghosts shows the band moving towards an altogether purer and more personal place, far removed from the art pop/indie dance experiments of its acclaimed 1993 One Little Indian debut release, Loveblows & Lovecries.

A distinctive combination of beautifully detailed songwriting, haunting melodies and inventively cinematic production, Schoolyard Ghosts sees Tim and Steven expanding the band's sonic palette yet again by collaborating with (amongst others) Californian pedal steel guitar ace Bruce Kaphan (American Music Club, Red House Painters), drummers Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, Mastica) and Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson), saxophonist/flautist Theo Travis, and the London Session Orchestra arranged by Dave Stewart (Hatfield & The North, Egg, Stewart & Gaskin etc).

Featuring the hypnotic Wherever There Is Light, the warped dynamism of Pigeon Drummer, the outsider lament of All Sweet Things and the subtly evolving explorations of the uplifting 13-minute semi-orchestral epic Truenorth, Schoolyard Ghosts represents the band's most consistent and mature work to date and looks set to build upon the success of predecessors Returning Jesus and Together We're Stranger.

The album was written and recorded between Autumn 2007 and Steven during the January 2008 recording sessions Spring 2008 in No-Man’s Land, Hemel Hempstead, UK; with additional recording in Norwich (UK), Lille (France), Vimmerby (Sweden), New York City, Austin and California (USA). Final orchestral sessions are being recorded in London in mid-March.

The full album tracklisting has been confirmed as follows:

All Sweet Things
Beautiful Songs You Should Know
Pigeon Drummer
Truenorth
Wherever There Is Light
Song Of The Surf
Streaming
Mixtaped

J'ai jeté une oreille sur Phoenix, le ASIA... Anecdotique et sans saveur, sans parler de certaines mélodies qui font carrément dans le ringard . Allez, je sauve 10 minutes sur l'ensemble de l'album, les moments les plus travaillés sont quand même tout à fait corrects... Mais quelle déception vu le line-up infernal !

Allez, pour nos amis progueux, une nouvelle publication musicale qui consacre ce mois-ci une trentaine de ses pages au rock prog : http://www.muziq.fr/

Il paraît que c'est très bien fait, et que ça se trouve en kiosque. J'irai voir aujourd'hui.

Oui , c'est pas mal fait , je l'ai ... Je ne sais pas si pour des connaisseurs du prog , le dossier a beaucoup d'intérêts , mais pour quelqu'un comme moi qui ne connait pas encore grand chose , je trouve ce dossier excellent .
Il y a des pages sur certains groupes phares : GENESIS , YES , GENTLE GIANT , Robert WYATT , SOFT MACHINE , JETHRO TULL , MAGMA , KING CRIMSON , VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR , RUSH , MARS VOLTA , EMERSON LAKE & PALMER , PORCUPINE TREE et CAMEL .

Puis des pages sur les courants : symphonisme ( MARILLION , ANGLAGARD , EARTH AND FIRE , TRACE , MIA , ... ) , prog folk ( HARMONIUM , MALICORNE , Alan STIVELL , MAYFLY , .... ) , Prog & Jazz ( UK , BRAND X , BRUFORD , MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA , .... ) , l'école de Canterbury ( CARAVAN , HATFIELD AND THE NORTH , Hugh HOPPER , MATCHING MOLE , Kevin AYERS , .... ) , Krautrock ( CAN , AMON DUUL , KRAFTWERK , FAUST , NEU! , MAMMUT, ... ) ,.......

Une double page sur le prog en France ( ALICE , ANGE , GONG , TRIANGLE , ILOUS & DECUYPER , KOMINTERN , .... ) et en ITALIE ( CHERRY FIVE / GOBLIN , BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO , ..... ) .

Et d'autres choses très intéressantes !

Je vais essayer de trouver ce magazine.

Le dernier Beardfish !

Après quelques écoutes, il a l'air vraiment excellent, encore meilleur que l'album précédent. Plus rock, un poil plus pêchu et un peu plus de folie aussi (sur les harmonies vocales).
Rien d'original mais que c'est bon !!!

J'ai écouté un titre sur progarchives... Cela sonne assez GENTLE GIANT, enfin ce morceau, et ça le fait carrément bien ! Je vais tenter l'album (et le dernier par la même occaz').

Sur le précédent, le "Part 1", y'avait un morceau qui faisait très King Crimson aussi, période The Wake of Posseidon.
Sinon y'a un peu de Supertramp (pour les mélodies popisantes, avec le piano)...
Sinon oui c'est un excellent groupe... je suis pas trop porté sur les nouveautés prog, mais là ça le fait vraiment comme tu dis, je pense pas que tu sera déçu.

Le groupe Sylvan sortira un double-CD live et le DVD de sa tournée 'Posthumous Silence' normalement en juillet : http://www.sylvan.de/sylvan_web/news_e.html

Bien ça ! Dans le même "genre" :

Vu sur dprp :

"SPOCK'S BEARD: will be releasing a live DVD in June 2008 entitled "Live" on the InsideOut label. In the meantime to whet your appetites a trailer is available on YouTube which you can see below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fpl-Ldtlpw

"The trailer was filmed by D'iMages on 25th May 2007 at De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands.

The long-awaited Spock's Beard "live" DVD and 2 CD set is now available for preorder on the Spock's Beard Website. Release dates are Germany, Austria & Switzerland on June 13, the remainder of Europe on June 16 and North America on June 24, 2008.

As stated above the DVD was recorded live in The Netherlands in May 2007 and it includes: On A Perfect Day, Mouth of Madness, Crack the Big Sky, The Slow Crash Landing Man, Return to Whatever, Surfing Down the Avalanche, Thoughts (Part 2), Drum solo, Skeletons At The Feast, Walking On The Wind, Hereafter (Ryo solo), As Far As The Mind Can See (Dreaming In The Age Of Answers, Here's A Man,They Know We Know, Stream Of Unconsciousness) Rearranged and The Water / Go The Way You Go medley. The DVD and CD set contain the same songs."

Vu sur dprp.net :

"PRESTO BALLET : releases second album ....
At last... the second release from Presto Ballet, "The Lost Art Of Time Travel" is now available!! Still keeping to his classic 70's progressive rock roots, Kurdt Vanderhoof serves up another hard rockin' classic prog album. "This album is a bit more focused then the first release," says Vanderhoof. "The songs tend to be a bit more epic in arrangement, but still concentrating on melody." And as always, this album was made using only classic analog synths, Mellotrons, and other similar gear. "Thats what Presto is all about, we want to keep that sound alive." If you were a fan of the debut album, "Peace Among The Ruins", you must add "The Lost Art Of Time Travel" to your collection!

Track list:

The Mind Machine (10:50)
Thieves (9:04)
You're Alive (4:24)
One Tragedy At A Time (14:00)
I'm Not Blind (6:16)
Easy Tomorrow (6:30)
Haze (9:28)"

Vu sur dprp :

"THE KEITH EMERSON BAND: Back in Week 20 we brought to you the cover artwork by Martin Kornick on the upcoming new Keith Emerson Band featuring Marc Bonilla album but no further details. We can now bring you full tracklisting and a release date of 20th August (Japan), a US date is yet to be released. Details on pre-ordering the album can be found at www.amazon.jp and www.cdjapan.co.jp.

The Keith Emerson Band features Marc Bonilla (Guitars and lead vocals), Gregg Bissonette (Drums, Percussion) and Bob Birch (Bass). The Touring band will feature Marc Bonilla, Travis Davis and Tony Pia.

On the tracklisting shown below - tracks 1 - 15 comprise one piece of music coming in at just over 35 minutes.

1. IGNITION
2. 1ST PRESENCE
3. LAST HORIZON
4. MILES AWAY PT 1
5. MILES AWAY PT 2
6. SONATA
7. FUGUE
8. 2ND PRESENCE
9. MARCHE TRAIN
10. BLUE INFERNO
11. 3RD PRESENCE
12. PRELUDE TO A HOPE
13. A PLACE TO HIDE
14. MILES AWAY PT 3
15. FINALE

16. THE ART OF FALLING DOWN
17. MALAMBO (from "Estancia Suite")
18. GAMETIME
19. THE PARTING"



J'avoue que cela fait des lustres que je ne me suis pas intéressé au père Keith... qui sait ce que cela peut donner !

UKZ, le nouveau groupe d'Eddie JOBSON... ça se confirme !!!

Voici une vidéo d'un de leurs futurs morceaux : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=YFlnG3AKOW8

C'est du très lourd ! Entre UK et KING CRIMSON, sombre, quelque peu avant-gardiste et surtout très prometteur !

Le nouveau IQ approche :

Hein... ? Je pige pas trop : c'est un nouvel album avec de vrais nouveaux morceaux ou un mix bizarre entre des trucs chopés récemment dans un studio et des vieux live... ???

Le groupe SYLVAN passe en concert a Bordeaux (espace Tatry) le 23 mai a 20h30 avec en 1ere partie OLYMPUS MOON (groupe bordelais de metal atmospherique).

Plus d'infos:
http://www.espacetatry.fr/index.html
http://www.myspace.com/espacetatry33
http://www.sylvan.de/sylvan_web/news_e.html
http://www.olympusmons.fr/

Réservations:
http://www.fnacspectacles.com/place-spectacle/manifestation/Pop-rock-SYLVAN---BXSYL.htm