by Transport Aerian | Feb 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Dear friends, music lovers and random passers by!
Today it is time to give you the last blog note before the time when the event that I and, as I really hope, some of you as well, anticipate. The experimental blend of a literature act and music, the gloomy story of love and longing, is what Transport Aerian’s upcoming studio effort has become is coming closer to the date of its release.There are less than a few months left for us – and for you – to wait. Today it is time to reveal some final details that we were keeping undercover for all this time. A lion share of the atmosphere, concept and the haunting chemistry of Darkblue, has been brought there by the hand of my collaborator, with whom together I made this album: a woman, a lady, an artist, who represents the female character within the narrative canvas of the album. Today I’m going to introduce her to you. Her name is Rachel Bauer.
Not being a part of progressive rock world, Rachel is, however not a stranger to the music environment and I take it as a honor to collaborate with her, as it brings Transport Aerian to the whole new level, opening the new musical and existential perspectives, which I, by the nature of my approach to the art consider of the biggest importance in the album making process.
As any complete musical piece of art, an album requires not only musical but also a visual component. And while some of the technical visual work for Darkblue is made by the guest visual artist Jess Telmatt, a good share of visuals are created by Rachel herself and her vision through the lens of the camera, which matches the ideas and concepts of the album flawlessly. In this blog I give you just a taste of her visual works – and just a snap peek at what she is… I promise more for you to see soon!
The second, and probably just as exciting bit of news, which I must share with you, is that now we’re getting close to the release date, which is set to be in the very beginning of May. The album in its physical and – optionally – digital shape will be available world-wide with a great and irreplaceable help and support from our artistic allies, Melodic Revolution Records family.
“We were once lost in time, but
I am a fog walker.
Your black spire on the lonesome island stands out of the gray mist on this day,
And you: once locked yourself up, isolated within a high tower upon the shower of memories,
But you, you were dancing through fog, just like me.
I approach”.
– Full Body Access, Darkblue,
Transport Aerian.
(Hamlet, photo by Rachel Bauer)
by KIM SOLI | Feb 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
From their SMASHED 2012, DEBUT ALBUM, ” THE VILLAGE, ” almost everyone thought CANADA’S ” ULTIMATE PROG BAND, ” INNERSPACE was THE NEXT PINK FLOYD, however, THIS BAND HAS A LOT MORE TO OFFER, than PINK FLOYD & MOZART, combined.
TO REFRESH YOUR MEMORY, CLICK ONTO THIS LINK: https://powerofprog.com/profiles/blog/show?id=4136212%3ABlogPost%3A162636&commentId=4136212%3AComment%3A163086
As written on their KICKSTARTER site:
” We have wider influences but we keep our “Innerspace sound” that made people liked us in the first place. Although, it’s going to be a much more diverse album, including more genres, we are keeping our progressive rock roots. Their is more dynamics and the songs are more different with different moods from one another. ”
” Just like on our first album The Village, we are using symphonic orchestra and choir, solo flute and solo saxophone but we are also bringing new sounds to our band such a small men vocal ensemble (gregorian like), electronic beats and modern ambiances, etc. ”
FOR MORE DETAILS, LOG ONTO THEIR KICKSTARTER SITE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/924372470/innerspaces-2nd-album-0
DONATE NOW, RECEIVE THE ALBUM & MORE PERKS, BY OCTOBER 2015!!!
LIKE THIS BAND, ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/innerspaceband
FOR MORE UPDATES, LOG ONTO: http://www.innerspace-band.com/home.html
by Neronia | Feb 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
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by KIM SOLI | Feb 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
Since 2010, the FABULOUS FRONTMAN of THE FLOWER KINGS and SPELLBOUND, aka HASSE FROBERG, had made a TREMENDOUS WORLD DOMINATION, with his MUSICAL COMPANION, with ” FUTURE PAST, ” and the 2012 release, ” POWER PLAY, ” and WILL RETURN THIS SPRING, WITH A POWERFUL 3RD RELEASE!!
And now, a few words from Hasse himself:
” How do you do it? I mean we’ve left out so much good stuff, it’s crazy. Here’s a short teaser of HFMC, trying to show you what the album is about. “
” Note: That this is NOT the mastered version. This is what it sounds like, when sound engineer Petrus Königsson has cranked up the volume on the final mixes and squeezed it into an mp3. Feel free to listen and share! ”
TO SEE & HEAR THIS NOODLE, CLICK ONTO THIS YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKLz6IOTGVY&feature=youtu.be
TO PRE-ORDER THE NEWALBUM, BEFORE IT’S RELEASE DATE OF MARCH 13, FOR ONLY 9.99 POUNDS ( THAT’S $15.23 USD FOLKS, ) CLICK ONTO THIS LINK: https://www.burningshed.com/store/glassvillerecords/
FOR NEWS, TOURDATES, BIOS, & MORE, LOG ONTO THEIR NEW WEBSITE: http://hfmcband.com/home
LIKE THIS BAND ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hasse-Fr%C3%B6berg-and-the-Musical-Companion/84014399944
by KIM SOLI | Jan 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
It occurred to me that THOUSANDS OF OBSESSED FANS, whom donated on the ANDERSON PONTY BAND’S KICKSTARTER site, had HARASSED JON ANDERSON & JEAN LUC PONTY, for the reason that THEIR CDs and DVDs were not completed on time.
Ladies and Gentlemen, DO YOU WANT THOSE CDs & DVDs to end up with FAST but NASTY RESULTS or do you want them to be GOOD, with HIGH QUALITY SOUND & VISION?
Harassing those LEGENDARY MUSICIANS will not speed up the process, therefore, RESPECT THOSE LEGENDS & WAIT FOR THOSE CDs & DVDs this Spring, therefore, DON’T THINK FOR YOURSELVES, THINK OF THE LEGENDS, WHO WILL DELIVER TO YOU!
And now, a message from Management:
Dear Friends:
We’ve seen some recent posts, emails and comments on Kickstarter and other websites about what will be delivered to our Kickstarter backers and we want to respond to those concerns. The album will include 50-60 minutes of music from the Aspen sessions. The DVD is a live presentation of the Aspen concert.
We want to assure you that we understand the reasons for the concern that some of you have raised. Although all of the Reward Descriptions clearly do state that there would be a single CD and DVD of the Aspen show, some of the other content, specifically Update 17, said something very different, and we acknowledge our responsibility and apologize for the misunderstanding and miscommunication about the product details.
While our plans definitely do include recording and releasing more music in the future, there was simply no way it would have been possible for the Band to create, arrange, rehearse, record and complete a separate studio album in advance of completing and producing the Aspen show CD and DVD. Whatever the source of the misunderstanding, Jon and Jean Luc were for the most part not involved in the Kickstarter postings, and certainly not Update 17; it has always been their understanding and intention that the Kickstarter project was going to be all about the Aspen performance only.
For those who feel that they were misled and taken advantage of because there will be a single album released instead of two separate albums and who wish to be compensated, we will offer to any contributor who requests a partial refund of their contribution in the amount of $5.00 if your reward included only the digital download, and $12.50 if your reward included both the digital download and the CD. These amounts reflect one-half of the contribution levels for the digital download and the digital download plus CD respectively. Please email your request to: refund@andersonponty.com on or before December 31, 2014. No refunds will be offered after that date.
We are well along in post-production working on additional editing and mixing of the album and DVD, and we will be keeping you updated and posting samples as they become available. We all truly believe that the Anderson Ponty Band is a powerful and magical musical vehicle, and we are grateful and appreciative that you have joined us on this wonderful journey.
Again, we sincerely apologize for the misunderstanding and confusion.
Respectfully,
The Anderson Ponty Management Team
BESIDES, A NEW WEBSITE IS UNDER WAY, THIS FRIDAY!
Hi all…hope everyone is doing great today. This is Jamie G writing.
I talked with management today and I’m happy to tell you
that this Friday our new website ( currently under construction)
will be live.
In addition many of the questions you have asked me here as well as in personal messages ( that I can’t answer cause I am just a musician in the band) will be answered…yes including some of you who wonder about past “business”.
I am also thrilled to tell you that though we are still working every day on recording, creating, tweaking, that mixes are starting and there will be a sample of one of those also posted on Friday.
Hope that you all will check in.
Thank you …
Jamie Glaser ( guitarist ..APB band)
HERE’S A NOODLE OF WHAT YOU’LL GET ON THE ANDERSON PONTY BAND’S CDs & DVDs: https://soundcloud.com/anderson-ponty-band
SIGN UP FOR MORE UPDATES: http://andersonponty.com/
LIKE THEM ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/andersonpontyband1?pnref=lhc
STAY TUNED, FOR MORE INFO WILL COME SOON! :))
by Transport Aerian | Jan 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Dear friends, music lovers and random passers by!
Several months ago I announced that Transport Aerian has started working on the new album, under the title Darkblue. After that, I slipped out of the information space, fading from the sight of the virtual and physical existence. This was not a hibernation. Behind the stages and in the shadows of silence I am actively shaping the material that will be the next album. Now, after a couple of months of work and dozens of thoughts, ideas and bits of lyrics written, I have finally come to terms with the recordings, and this is why I was not giving you many updates recently: I prefer to concentrate on the music in process of its creation, not letting any influence in, and not letting much of the energy out. It is necessary as I still believe in a somewhat romantic idea that music is about capturing the spirit, rather than stamping the product meant utterly to fill your followers expectations or, even less, your pockets. This is one of the reasons why Darkblue is drastically, incomparably different from my previous recording experiences and than my previous album, which essentially brought me back into the existence as an artistic power and opened a plenty of horizons that await to be engaged.
But I think now the time has come for me to open a little bit more of what I’m slowly putting together. Unlike Bleeding, which was mostly but a set of songs, bound together by one mood, or rather, by a desperate need to shout in the desert in hope to hear some echoes, the Darkblue will be a conceptual album. That said, it is not merely a set of songs bound with the same emotional state, which I did the previous times, rather, it is the one-piece musical diary that tells the surreal love story, which is being recited throughout the album’s temporal and spatial space from the face of two main characters. This makes the album not only essentially different as it does have a plot and the story line, but it also makes it different on the way it is constructed, as it has no songs, it has one piece to comprehend entirely. I am aware that this approach, however, most likely murders the album as a commercial effort. I am not only aware of that, I’m also absolutely happy and conscious about that decision, because I dedicate what I’m doing to those who are willing to hear, and willing to participate and share the energy of music with me. I do not try to knock on the deaf and blind shut door of the mainstream media, stage or genre-oriented or utterly tasteless auditorium. I believe what I’m doing is for those who is capable to let the spirit in only. You are one of those, because you are reading this. You were probably one of those, because my previous effort, a shout out in the desert, a cry of coming back to life after a painful experience of being shattered to pieces was not unheard or unnoticed. And that’s why now I feel the freedom of doing what I feel like. And you, the ones who believed in me, gave me that freedom.
A few months of work and a year of conceiving was actually almost enough to record the majority of parts. I have recorded and written all the instruments on my own, mostly in my own small and cosy home studio. As Darkblue is a story-telling album, and it has two main characters, one of which, a lonesome and broken exile — is represented by myself, and the other – by the very special guest singer, whose participation made this album very special sound and energy-wise, but whose identity I will keep in secret until the later date. The release date is still to be announced, as its being discussed with the amazingly helpful label Melodic Revolution Records, which will be helping us bringing the album into the world and I must say it is relieving to have such a helping hand in this journey.
As I’m aware that music only might be not enough for the album to become truly a piece of art, and as I intend to keep on with the high standards of the physical releases, the next step will be putting together an appropriate visual design. I strongly believe that the album is not but a set of songs, rather its an artwork, a package, a physical artifact that you’d find pleasant to hold in your hands. Right now I’m working on the different design concepts and look for the artists who can make it happen. In any case I intend to keep the visual side on the level appropriate to the modern standards of real music, hence it is most likely that the physical form of the album will include some exclusive package. To finish this transitional update, and give you something to consider before more will be ready to come, let me introduce you to this teaser, which shows some aspects of the incoming album more precisely. I trust in your helping hand for making this all happen.
