MAREK ARNOLD'S ARTROCK PROJECT

Marek Arnold's Artrock Project biography
Marek Arnold is the saxophonist, keyboard player and composer in such bands as Toxic Smile, Cyril, Seven Steps To The Green Door and Damanek - going back over at least the last 20 years. Throughout this prolific time, he was asked time and again: Why don't you make a solo album? However, Marek didn't really pay much attention to these questions, but after he was asked to compose the signature tune 'Stay' for the renowned Reichenbacher Artrock Festival in 2018, and this piece of music subsequently received a lot of praise, he decided that he would indeed finally face the recurring question about the solo album, and take on the challenge.

He soon realized that he could use his many contacts in the progressive rock scene by inviting them to join in the project as guests. Many came to the recording sessions in person, others sent their music files via the Internet, and over the next five years, a total of 12 male and female singers, 8 drummers, 6 bassists, 10 guitarists, 6 keyboard players, 6 lyric writers, 7 wind instrument specialists and a choir took part in creating the album.

In addition to the new compositions, the album also includes two older pieces by his former band Toxic Smile, which disbanded in 2015. The often played live 'Cold Run' is presented for the first time as a studio recording, and 'Arirang' from the Madness And Despair (MAD) album forms the main part of the opening sixteen minute track 'A Story of Separation and Loss', albeit renamed here as 'No Place Like Arirang'.


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