Costa Rican progressive band Time’s Forgotten has made their pandemic-era concert, Phases, now available for free on YouTube. Originally released as a pay-per-view event during the pandemic, Phases marks a significant transition for the band, introducing Priscilla Ruiz as the new vocalist.
“We designed Phases to be a bridge between the first era of the band and the new one with Priscilla,” the band shared. “We played music from our entire catalog, including some tracks from our at-the-time unreleased album, Shelter.”
Filmed and recorded with an exceptional team dedicated to delivering the best concert experience in Costa Rican history, phases is a labor of love celebrating the band’s nearly 20-year journey in progressive rock. “After three years, we decided to release it for free on YouTube so those who missed it initially can now enjoy it,” they added.
Watch it on here or on YouTube
Time’s Forgotten is: Vocals: Priscilla Ruiz Keyboards/Guitar: Juan Pablo Calvo Lead guitar: Ari Lotringer Bass: Gonzalo Trejos Drums: Jorge Sobrado
Concert Production: Johanns Pereira: General Producer Antonio Calvo: Director, Co-Producer Ari Lotringer: Video Editing and Post-Production, Co-Producer Juan Pablo Calvo: Sound Mixing and Mastering, Co-Producer Virgilio Azofeifa, Elias Arias, Memo Gómez: Associated Producers Estudio 14.
Crew: Draxe Ramírez: Live Sound and Recording Memo Gómez: Audio Recording Kenry Solano: Lighting Manolo Umaña, Fernando Fonseca, Jeancarlo Castro, Santiago Ramírez: Camera work. Antonio Calvo, Ericka Hernández, Ardeshir Cordero, Jonathan Hidalgo, Andrea Chen, David Law: Visuals and Animations Mary Solano: Makeup Artist Thanks to all the RSTV and Estudio 14 staff for their dedication and professional work on the day of the recording.
…in breif Time’s Forgotten is a progressive rock/metal band from Costa Rica that has its origins back in 2004 when they formed under founder and keyboardist Juan Pablo Calvo.
In related news the band is wrapping up the recording and production of their fifth album, promising more exciting developments for fans.
We are thrilled to announce “Shelter” the upcoming fourth album by Costa Rica’s premier Prog Metal act Time’s Forgotten to be released in early 2022 via label Melodic Revolutions Records.
“This is a concept album and I think it is our best work yet,” says Calvo. “It shows how we’ve matured throughout our 16-year career as a band and we can’t wait for you to listen to it!”. The band also has some very special surprises for this in 2021, so stay tuned!
Tracklist: 1. New Dawn (prologue) 2. City 3. Cycle #248 4. Defiant 5. Accident of Evolution 6. Waking Up (interlude) 7. Ascension 8. Outsider 9. Moments of Clarity 10. The Road Home 11. Sleepless
Produced by Ari Lotringer and Juan Pablo Calvo and arranged by the band. Mixed and mastered by Calvo at Lúcuma Estudios.
Art direction: Fernando Fonseca. Photography: Sebastián Blanco. Photo editing: Ari Lotringer
Format: CD & Digital Catalog Number: MRRCD 22208
Time’s Forgotten is. Priscilla Ruiz: lead vocals Jorge Sobrado: drums Ari Lotringer: lead guitar Gonzalo Trejos: bass Juan Pablo Calvo: keyboards, guitars, vocals
Time’s Forgotten is a progressive rock/metal band from San Jose, Costa Rica that has its origins back in 2004 when they formed under founder and keyboardist Juan Pablo Calvo. After that, they’ve released three studio albums as a proper band: A Relative Moment of Peace (2006), Dandelion (2009) and The Book of Lost Words (2012) co-written by Calvo and Ari Lotringer, the band’s lead guitarist. During that time, they played the most important theaters in the country, ranging from 500 to 1000 in attendance, quite an accomplishment for a band in a very small country. They have opened for Angra and Avantasia and played the acclaimed Baja Prog Fest back in 2007.
They have also won the ACAM award two times for prog record of the year and Juan Pablo won the best audio engineer in 2018. They have had great national and international reviews of their work, during the years, including being on the cover of Costa Rica’s most important newspaper twice.
In 2015, due to burning out, they decided to go on hiatus for a short time and returned in 2019 to start a new chapter in the band, this time changing vocalist from male to female. Former vocalist Francisco Longhi was replaced by newcomer Priscilla Ruiz, who brings more versatility and vocal tools to the mix.
The band is working very hard on a fourth album which they hope to release in the second half of 2020 and are already setting up live dates for the whole of next year.
in a post from the bands social me page reads:
We’re extremely happy to announce that we are now part of the record label Melodic Revolution Records! This is a very important part of our career and we couldn’t be happier! They will be releasing our forthcoming album. Have a wonderful weekend!
Estamos extremadamente felices de anunciar que somos parte de la disquera Melodic Revolutions Records!. Este es un paso super importante en nuestra carrera y no podríamos estar más felices! Ellos lanzaran nuestro próximo album. Tengan un chuzo de fin de semana!
A Statement from the label:
We are thrilled to be working with Time’s Forgotten on their upcoming release, it will be the band’s fourth album and the first with lead vocalist Priscilla Ruiz. Time’s Forgotten has created a sound that seems familiar at first glance yet their sound is very distinctive and original. We believe this album and line up will help propel the band onto the Progressive Rock/Metal world stage.
Time’s Forgotten recently released their first single CITY from their upcoming album
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