ifsounds and Melodic Revolution Records are proud to announce the upcoming release of the band’s 6th album “An Gorta Mór”.
According to ifsounds
“An Gorta Mór” is a concept album about the theme of runaway: the opening and the closing numbers build a bridge between the tragedy of the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór in Gaelic) and the massive Irish exodus to America of the middle of the 19th Century with the current move of people from Africa to Europe through the Mediterranean way. The other songs are about runaway and desperation from another point of view, focusing on other social issues such as unemployment and domestic abuse.
Release Date: August 27th, 2018
Format:CD & Digital
Packaging: Jewel Case with 12-page color booklet
Songs Titles:
01. Mediterranean Floor (06:34)
02. Techno Guru (02:17)
03. Violet (04:07)
04. Reptilarium (04:51)
05. An Gorta Mór (22:00
I.Emerald Island
II.Phytophthora infestans
III. Bridget O’Donnell
IV The Great Famine
V. Doolough Lake
VI. The Docks of Limerick
VII. Regina Oceani
VIII. Long cónra
IX. Ghosts in America
Guests:
Lino Giugliano – Keyboards and synths on “Reptilarium”, “The Great Famine” and “Doolough Lake”.
Matteo Colombo – Violin on “Emerald Island” and “The Docks of Limerick”.
Vincenzo Cervelli – Lead Vocals on “The Docks of Limerick”, Backing Vocals on “Ghosts in America”.
Alessandra Santovito – Lead Vocals on “Regina Oceani”.
Francesco Forgione – Bhodrán on “The Docks of Limerick”.
Marco Grossi – Backing Vocals on “Ghosts in America”.
Arranged by ifsounds.
Album Notes
Lyrics and Music by Dario Lastella.
Produced by Dario Lastella. in Italy
Mastered by Steve Kitch in England
Sleeve design by Fabienne Di Girolamo: http://fabiennedigirolamo.com
“An Gorta Mór” was produced, recorded and mixed in Molise, Italy between October 2017 through May 2018.
On November 6th, 2012 ifsounds releases the ambitious concept album the Red Apple just 40 days prior to the real possibility of Armageddon as predicted by the Mayans.
For over a 1,000 years, many people around the world including Scientists feared of a global catastrophe predicted by the Mayans, this fear which could end the human race is always with us.
Dario Lastella from the Italian progressive rock band ifsounds wrote a concept album and a novel inspired by a global madness scenario. “Mela Rossa” is a choral novel which describes the four different corners of the world during the last days of a fatal 2012: Italy, Argentina, Mongolia, and the USA.
According to Dario, The novel is mainly about human feelings and behavior and about the management of the power. What is true and what is false? Who can we trust? Who could “ride the gravy train” of an end-of-the-world scenario? Does the threat come from the outer space? Are they the aliens? Or are we the real threat for the human race?
In 2017 Dario’s novel Mela Rossa, the companion to the album Red Apple is published in Italian by Planet Book.
Melodic Revolution Records is Celebrating its 10th year anniversary as a record label, and they have just released a press release called “A Celebration – 10 Years of Melodic Revolution Records” (Press Release) In the press release they thank music fans for supporting the labels artist. Thus the label have put together a whopper of a Digital Album and is offering it for a limited time as a Free Download it will only be available for seven days.
The digital album features 80 tracks which equates to over 7 hours of Music.
Featured artist include:
Echoes Landing, Laurie Larson, DDRIVE, J-Zohar, Alyshen, ifsounds, Scarlet Hollow, Cary Clouser, Vitriol, 24k, Jim Crean, Insites, When Friends Come Out to Play,Unified Past, Solstice Coil, Morre, MandalaBand, Aethellis, Don Mancuso,Capricia, Paul D’Adamo,The Minstrel’s Ghost, Kracked Earth,The Room, Halo, King Friday, Hellhaven, Corvus Stone,Anuryzm, Transcend, Oceans of Time, Roads to Damascus, Murky Red, Transport Aerian, Amadeus Awad, Andy John Bradford’s Oceans 5, Luigi Milanese, AzaZello, Sunshine & Bullets, Morpheus Rising, Thoughts Factory, Peter Matuchniak, Marco Ragni, Ellsworth Hall, Backhand, Leon Alvarado, Voice of the Enslaved, Progeland, Drastic Fall, Time Horizon, Kinetic Element, Gekko Projekt, Darrel Treece-Birch, Port Mahadia, Petri Lindström Project and Nth Ascension
Melodic Revolution Records has brought together a collection of the best musicians from around the world to participate in the charity release “One Love! Music for Relief” which will be made available on September 9th 2016 via There is Hope Records a charity sub-label of Melodic Revolution Records.
Melodic Revolution Records strives to not only promote and release creative works of music by many of the best up and coming artists, but to also help those in need in our community and around the globe. The music donated will help raise money for the recent events in Baton Rouge Louisiana which has experienced catastrophic flooding and the devastating earthquake that struck Amatrice , and surrounding communities in the central region of Italy.
We were gratified by the outpouring of support from the music community. When we put forth a call to action for track donations to support – One Love! Music for Relief, t he immediate reaction from the musicians was “Yes we want to help anyway we can!” After the official announcement of One Love! Music for Relief, many more artists reached out in wanting to lend their support and the result is a digital album that has almost 3 hours of music with 30+ artists.
Our hope is that this release will not only raise some of the much needed money to help the survivors of these tragedies and their families, we also hope to continue to focus awareness on the human aspect of our existence long after the fickle media cycle has moved on. Yes there are natural disasters, unfortunately there is no short supply of these, but it is how we humans come together that is the true miracle of our existence. We cannot let these events S fall off our radar, we must continue to support our fellow humans as they begin to rebuild their lives. So yes the earthquake in Central Italy and catastrophic flooding in Louisiana have abated, but now the road to rebuilding has begun and we know that support will be needed for some time to come, There is Hope Records wants to ensure that support continues.
We would like to encourage everyone to help promote this project on social media and those with a website we encourage to add a link or embed the player on your site.
Thank you!
Where Does The Money Go?
Minus PayPal and/or credit card transactions; 100% of money will be donated to… and split between Habitat for Humanity and The Red Cross.
Melodic Revolution Records is gearing up to release “One Love! Music For Relief” via its not for profit sub-label, There is Hope Records.
19 extremely talented Bands and Solo Artist from all over the world have come together so far and contributed music for this release, release date and more artists to be announced soon.
Our hope is that this release will not only raise some of the much needed money to help the victims and their families, as well as continue to shed awareness about these recent natural disasters including the earthquake in Central Italy and catastrophic flooding in Louisiana long after it has fallen off the media radar.
100% of sales minus pay pal and orcredit card transaction will be donated to and split between Habitat for Humanity and The Red Cross.
About There is Hope Records There is Hope Records was established in 2010 as a not for profit sub-label to Melodic Revolution Records to help those in need.
About The Album Art The album Art was designed by world famous Fantasy artist Ed Unitsky known for his work with bands like The Flower Kings, United Progressive Fraternity,The Tangent, Unified Past to name but a few.
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