F2/progrock.co.uk records update

 

Hello, and welcome to another update from progrock.co.uk - the home of
Progressive Rock!

SOLSTICE

We are extremely pleased to announce the signing of Solstice to F2 Music. A
personal favourite of mine since the very early 80's, Solstice were part of
a thriving Prog scene in the UK, alongside Marillion, Pallas, IQ, Pendragon
& Twelfth Night, bringing strong folk influences into their melodic
progressive rock sound. Superb electric violin and guitar was the centre
piece of this excellent band. And the great news is that Solstice will be
playing live again later this year before going in to the studio to work on
a NEW Solstice CD for 2008!

In the meantime we will be releasing 'definitive' versions of the band's
three studio CD's - 'Silent Dance', 'New Life' and 'Circles' - with brand
new artwork and booklets, and each with a bonus CD containing rare demos
and special live tracks. The bonus discs will include all those previously
released on the very hard to find Solstice compilation CD 'Pathways', plus
even more! We will be sure to let you know when they are available! See the
'Digital Downloads' news item below to

Solstice is:

Andy Glass - guitar and vocals
Emma Brown - vocals
Jenny Newman - violin and vocals
Steve McDaniel - keyboards
Robin Phillips - bass
Pete Hemsley - drums

At the signing, Andy Glass said 'we are delighted to be entering into this
creative partnership and we are full of hope for the future'. Excellent
news indeed, and welcome back Solstice!

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DIGITAL DOWNLOADS!

We have launched our digital download shop on www.progrock.co.uk! All of
the Solstice studio tracks from their three CD's, plus all of the tracks
from their Cropredy 'live in the studio' CD are available to download at
great prices! The rare demos and special live tracks will not be available
as downloads, and will only be available on the bonus discs with the
re-released CD's coming soon! More digital downloads will be added very
soon!

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NEW STOCK

Magenta - Speechless [CD single] - GBP 3.50
The new single by Magenta featuring two versions of the new track
'Speechless' and a superb new full band version of 'Anger', originally from
the band's second CD 'Seven'. Also includes the promo video for
'Speechless' as a quicktime movie. We have very limited stock of this CD,
so buy now before it's too late!! See the 'Magenta fans' information below
for some other music you may like!

PRE-ORDERS

1. NEO - Broadcast [DVD] - GBP 15.99 / [DVD+CD] - GBP 20.99 [due
16/04/2007]
This unique DVD features songs by IQ, Pallas, Pendragon, Shadowland and
Arena. Band includes Mark Westwood, John Jowitt, Clive Nolan and Andy
Edwards, with guest appearances from Nick Barrett of Pendragon and Alan
Reed of Pallas.

2. Pendragon - Past and Presence [DVD+2CD] - GBP 20.99 (DVD only is GBP
15.99) [due 16/04/2007]
Special concert to celebrate the 21st anniversary of 'The Jewel'. This is
two hours of some of the best music that progressive rock has to offer!

3. Steve Thorne - Emotional Creatures (part 2) - GBP 9.99 [due 30/03/2007]
Features appearances by Tony Levin, Nick d'Virgilio, Geoff Downes, Gavin
Harrison & Pete Trewavas!

4. Alan Morse - 4 O'clock And Hysteria - GBP 9.99
Excellent instrumental album featuring contributions from all members of
Spocks Beard, plus Neal Morse!

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THE PROGROCK CHARTS!

Still at number one is the debut CD by The Reasoning called 'Awakening',
and featuring a host of great musicians including Rachel Jones (ex
Karnataka), Matthew Cohen (ex Magenta) and a guest guitar solo by Steve
Rothery (of Marillion). If you are a fan, then you will probably like a CD
that Matthew's previous band Erasmus released called 'Voyage'. It features
a brief vocal performance by Christina (Magenta) and includes Rob Reed
(Magenta) on keyboards. A bargain at just GBP 8.00!

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EZRA PRESS RELEASE

Ezra are pleased to welcome Chris Jones (guitar) and Gareth Hill
(keyboards) to Ezra. In their recent press release, the band stated 'We
have ditched the sequencer and replaced it with real people. Those of you
who have followed us over the years will have seen various line-ups of the
band, some with keyboards some with sequencer, but it's the first time
we've had another guitarist in the band. There are plenty of guitar parts
on the albums that we can now play live for the first time. This now makes
Ezra a seven piece! Both have fitted into the band perfectly and played
their first performance on 23/04/2007 supporting Peter Banks (ex Yes).

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PROG ROCK ON THE RADIO!

progrock.co.uk are proud to sponsor a new online radio show - Paul Baker's
excellent Progressive Soundscapes show (until recently on arfm.co.uk).
Paul's new home is at www.rock247online.co.uk - a brand new Rock and Metal
station which has just gone online. Make sure you tune in to hear some
excellent music. The Progressive Soundscapes show will go out from 2pm to
5pm every Sunday.

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MAGENTA FANS!

If you are a fan of Magenta, as well as buying the new single 'Speechless',
you may also be interested in some of the other projects that Rob Reed, the
main man behind Magenta, has previously been involved in, as well as some
other members of Magenta!

Othello Syndrome - The Shadow of Dreams - solo CD by Martin Rosser,
guitarist with Magenta, and includes Rob Reed on keyboards, and Tim
Robinson on drums.

The Fyreworks - The Fyreworks - Main man Danny Change (guitar) with a great
band including Rob Reed on keyboards, Andy Edwards (Ezra) on vocals and
guitar, Doug Sinclair (Steve Hackett Band) on bass and Tim Robinson on
drums.

Cyan - Echoes - part 2 of the remastered best of CD's featuring tracks from
Cyan's first two CD's plus a number of previously unreleased tracks.

McCarthy - Christian rock artist Alan McCarthy with Rob Reed on keyboards
and Martin Rosser on guitar.

Erasmus - Voyage - solo CD by Matthew Cohen (ex-Magenta now The Reasoning),
and includes Rob Reed on keyboards and a brief appearance by Christina of
Magenta.

Best Regards

David Robinson
www.progrock.co.uk
F2 Music Ltd, Festival House, 2 Goldfinch Close, Loughborough,
Leicestershire, LE11 3HG, UK

Hello, and welcome to another update from progrock.co.uk - the home of
Progressive Rock!


NEW STOCK / PRE-ORDERS

1. Magenta - 'The Singles' - GBP 9.99 [Due in stock: 21/05/2007]
Contains 14 tracks consisting of every song that has made up the band's
four EP/singles. Eight of these tracks have been specially re-recorded
exclusively for this release, and none of them have been available on a
full length CD before. Total running time 79 minutes. Rob Reed explains the
decision to release the album: "Most of these songs have been an important
part of Magenta's live set for several years now and they have evolved as
the band has performed them live.  We felt it was time to record and
release definitive versions with our current line up, which includes Dan
Fry on bass.  We hope that fans of the band that have our three albums, but
have not yet had the chance to hear these songs, will enjoy this equally
important aspect of the band's music. However, we hope that those that
already have some of this material will appreciate how these songs have
evolved over time and that you all love the new versions". Included on the
CD is Night and Day (originally recorded with Annie Haslam) which features
a complete lead vocal from Christina for the first time, plus Sunshine
Saviour, a new piece adapted from Children of the Sun from the band's first
album Revolutions. The three bonus tracks contain an additional 25 minutes
of music including the full 14-minute director's cut of "Pride".

Track listing: Speechless (Single Version) / Anger / King Of The Skies (New
Version) / I'm Alive (New Version) / Call Me (New Version) / Sunshine
Saviour (New Version) / Broken (New Version) / Lemminkainen's Lament (New
Version) / Night And Day (New Version) / Essence Of Love (Instrumental) /
Cold (2007 acoustic mix) (New Version) / Bonus Tracks: Opus 3
(Instrumental) / Pride (Director's Cut) / Sloth (String Mix)

2. The Watch - Primitive - GBP 9.99 [Due in stock: 01/05/2007]
Brand new CD by Italian band The Watch. This CD is an absolute MUST BUY for
early Genesis fans!! This, and the band's previous CD's (Vacuum & Ghost -
all now in stock at www.progrock.co.uk!) will sit well next to your copies
of Trespass, Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot! Vintage Prog that you will love!
Highly recommended! The Watch have also been confirmed to appear at the
Loreley Festival with Jethro Tull, IQ, Fish, Pendragon and Asia.

3. Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic: Part One - GBP 9.99 [Due in stock:
21/05/2007]
Four Swedish motivated young artists celebrate music inspired by 70s prog
giants such as Gentle Giant. This latest album from Inside Out includes
some sophisticated arrangements that, despite complexity, remain easily
consumable at all times. One to watch!

4. Kaipa - Angling Feeling - GBP 9.99 [Due in stock: 21/05/2007]
Kaipa, the band around mastermind Hans Lundin, has been spearheading the
Swedish progressive rock scene since 1975. Their latest work is superb and
combines progressive rock music with elements of folk and jazz. Features
Jonas Reingold (The Flower Kings, The Tangent) and Patrik Lundstrom
(Ritual).

5. Kamelot - Angling Feeling - GBP 10.99 (standard edition) & GBP 11.99
(special edition with DVD!) [Due in stock: 21/05/2007]
Kamelot - ready to continue their ascension to the pinnacle of metal
royalty! After their biggest and most successful releases 'The Black Halo'
metal pioneers Kamelot return with another studio masterpiece. 'Ghost
Opera' will appeal to Metal fans, Gothic fans and Prog fans!

6. Planet X - Angling Feeling - GBP 9.99 [Due in stock: 21/05/2007]
Founded by Derek Sherinian (Billy Idol, former Dream Theater), Planet X
describe themselves as 'the sickest instrumental band in the world?a band
that played so fiercely, it would strike fear in the hearts of other
musicians when they heard us'. This release demonstrates what happens when
a number of exceptional musicians team up. An incredibly fast-pacing roller
coaster ride - the perfect fusion of rock and metal.

7. Pendragon - Past & Presence (DVD + 2CD) - GBP 20.99 [Slightly delayed
release date - now 06/05/2007].
Special concert to celebrate the 21st anniversary of 'The Jewel'. This is
two hours of some of the best music that progressive rock has to offer!

8. Alan Morse - 4 O'Clock And Hysteria - GBP 9.99 [Due in any day now!]
Excellent instrumental album Spocks Beard guitarist - includes Neal Morse!
Full line up is: Alan Morse - guitars, Eric Darken - percussion, Nick
D''Virgilio - drums, Jerry Goodman - violin, Gary Lunn - bass, Dave Meros -
bass, Neal Morse - keyboard, acoustic guitar, mandolin, Ryo Okumoto -
keyboards, Scott Williamson - drums

9. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet - GBP 9.99 [Just arrived in
stock!]
The new studio album by Porcupine Tree, the band's ninth, will be released
on the 16th April 2007. The album tracks flow into each other, forming one
50-minute piece. Features guest appearances by Alex Lifeson & Robert Fripp!
Highly recommended!

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SOLSTICE - DIGITAL DOWNLOADS!

We have launched our digital download shop on www.progrock.co.uk! Following
our signing of the excellent Progressive band Solstice earlier this month,
all of the Solstice studio tracks from their three CD's, plus all of the
tracks from their Cropredy 'live in the studio' CD are available to
download at www.progrock.co.uk at great prices! More digital downloads will
be added very soon!

We did have some initial technical problems with our digital download
facility, but this has now been completely resolved and couldn't be simpler
to use!

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THE PROGROCK CHARTS!

For seven weeks now, the debut CD by The Reasoning called 'Awakening' has
been our number one best seller. Featuring a host of great musicians
including Rachel Jones (ex Karnataka), Matthew Cohen (ex Magenta) and a
guest guitar solo by Steve Rothery (of Marillion), it's easy to see why! If
you are a fan, then you will probably like a CD that Matthew's previous
band Erasmus released called 'Voyage'. It features a brief vocal
performance by Christina (Magenta) and includes Rob Reed (Magenta) on
keyboards. A bargain at just GBP 8.00!

However, the competition is growing with the release of some excellent CD's
/ DVD's recently, including the new Magenta 'Singles' album, the new CD
'Primitive' by excellent Italian band The Watch, the Porcupine Tree CD
'Fear Of A Blank Planet and two excellent releases from the Inside Out
label, Kaipa - Angling Feeling and Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic: Part
One. What a great Prog summer we will have!!

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LOVE PROG!

And don't forget our LOVE PROG! campaign! Spend over GBP 30.00 at
www.progrock.co.uk and you can choose anything from our specially compiled
list absolutely FREE! While stock lasts!

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CAN'T FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR?

Get in touch and let us know what you would like us to stock and we will do
our very best to help!

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Best Regards

David Robinson
www.progrock.co.uk
F2 Music Ltd, Festival House, 2 Goldfinch Close, Loughborough,
Leicestershire, LE11 3HG, UK

 

Hello Prog fans, and welcome to another update from www.progrock.co.uk -
the home of Progressive Rock!

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CONTENTS

1. Solstice - The Definitive Edition CD's will be released on 01 SEPTEMBER
2007 + free downloads!

2. Other new releases including The Flower Kings, Ritual, Riverside and
more!

3. Back in stock - Magenta - Seven / Revolutions / The Gathering

4. Other news

5. Progrock.co.uk on the road!

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1. We are very pleased to announce that the 'Definitive Edition' CD's will
be released on 01 SEPTEMBER 2007. You can pre-order them individually now,
or pre-order all four releases for the very special price of just GBP
44.00! Just visit www.progrock.co.uk for all the information you need! The
release are:

SILENT DANCE - THE DEFINITIVE EDITION (double) - GBP 12.99
The classic first album by Solstice, now released with a 73 minute bonus
disc which includes the BBC Friday Rock Session from 1983 - the first ever
release of this recording. Also includes every lots of early demo
recordings by the band, including the sought after 'Pathways' demo tracks,
released for the first time here on CD!

NEW LIFE - THE DEFINITIVE EDITION (double) - GBP 12.99
Now released with a bonus disc containing 77 minutes of rare live
recordings from 1984 & 1985, both as a four piece and as a five piece. You
can hear why they were considered one of the best live bands on the prog
circuit!

CIRCLES - THE DEFINITIVE EDITION - GBP 9.99
A single CD release with 3 bonus demo tracks and a superb early version of
Medicine, first released on the Audio Directory of British Progressive Rock
cassette only release.

THE CROPREDY SET - THE DEFINITIVE EDITION (CD + DVD) - GBP 12.99
This is a CD + DVD release of the band's Cropredy performance in 1998. The
first ever video footage officially available of Solstice!

DOWNLOAD OF TRACKS BY SOLSTICE FOR FREE!

Just visit the http://www.progrock.co.uk/acatalog/Solstice.html, add the
free tracks to your basket, go to the checkout, fill your name, address and
email address and you will receive the links required to download the
tracks. It's that easy! Tracks available for free are listed below - and if
you like them, why don't you come back and buy some more, or buy the albums
and get the bonus tracks!

Sunrise (from Silent Dance)
Morning Light (from New Life)
Soul To Soul (from Circles)
Sacred Run (from The Cropredy Set)

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2. OTHER NEW RELEASES

There are some excellent new releases coming up over the next couple of
months - and all available to pre-order from www.progrock.co.uk, at great
prices.

FLOWER KINGS - THE SUM OF NO EVIL - GBP 9.99 (standard CD) / GBP 11.99
(special edition)
Also available as a standard single CD release or a special edition
digipack which includes a bonus CD with 4 audio tracks and a 'making of'
documentary from the recording studio! The Sum Of No Evil' is a true return
to form for the Flower Kings. There are no experiments this time around and
the result is true Flower Kings music and their best album for a long time!


RIVERSIDE - RAPID EYE MOVEMENT - GBP 9.99 (standard CD) / GBP 11.99
(special edition)
Also available as a standard single CD release or a special edition
digipack which includes a bonus CD.
Riverside's music can best be described as a cross between atmospheric Pink
Floyd and Porcupine Tree, mixed up with modern metal elements. Their sound
is fresh and authentic and they are without a doubt one of THE up and
coming bands of the genre at the moment!

RITUAL - The Hemulic Voluntary Band - GBP 9.99
With 'The Hemulic Voluntary Band' Ritual, featuring Kaipa singer Patrik
Lundstrom, have recorded their most adventurous album to date. This fourth
studio album harks back to Ritual's self-titled debut from 1995 which is
still highly praised within prog circles. A must for fans of Kaipa, Flower
Kings, etc!

SIEGES EVEN - PARAMOUNT - GBP 9.99
Following an extended creative hiatus, this influential prog act return  
with a new studio album. The album forges an atmospheric arch to the band's
beginnings back in the late eighties, documenting the topicality of their
music at the same time. For fans of Kansas, Peter Gabriel, Yes, King
Crimson, etc!

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3. BACK IN STOCK

We now have the following popular CD's back in stock.

Magenta - Seven - GBP 9.99
Magenta - Revolutions - GBP 12.99
Magenta - The Gathering (DVD) - GBP 9.99

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4. OTHER NEWS

Abel Ganz are nearing completion of their new studio CD 'Shooting
Albatross', We have heard some early mixes and it really is sounding great!
Alan Reed (Pallas) plays on the epic track of the CD and Chris Fry
(Magenta) plays a great solo on one of the tracks. An official release date
will be set in the next few weeks, so watch this space.

Credo are currently writing new material for their follow up CD to the
superb 'Rhetoric', and early indications are that this will be another
great release by the band!

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5. PROGROCK.CO.UK ON THE ROAD

We apologise for not being at the Mostly Autumn gig at the Robin, Bilston
on 08/06/2007 as promised. Unfortunately the band refused to let us sell
any CD's at the concert (nothing to do with the venue) - a real shame
considering we have been promoting their latest CD through the
progrock.co.uk web site for the last few months! Also, I know a lot of you
have asked why we don't attend the Classic Rock Society gigs any more with
our stall. Unfortunately we have been told that we are not allowed to sell
CD's there either! Our whole purpose is to help promote prog rock wherever,
whenever we can, so if you know of any other venues that you would like to
see us at, please let us know, we would love to be there!