RED LLOYD

Neo-Prog • Germany

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Red LLoyd is the solo project of Frank Altpeter, the vocalist and keyboard player of the German Gary Moore tribute band 'Moore and More', based in Cologne, Germany.

Frank had been playing rock music in a live band, whilst also writing his own music, for a long time, but until the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 he had never the opportunity to record it. As a result of the imposed Covid-19 restrictions however, he was finally able to go into the studio to lay down his ideas and find some fellow musicians to help him record them.

He had been inspired by prog rock from an early age, especially Pink Floyd and Genesis, and he found that as he recorded the tracks they became more and more cinematic, almost to the point where he considered them to be epics.

Some of the ideas had originated back in the early 1980s, when Frank was experimenting with various types of hardware, synthesizers etc, and it was at this time that he discovered the first Digital Audio Workstations, which made multitracking capabilities available for everyone. During the lockdowns of early 2020 he was able to revive his old recordings with modern equipment, some new ideas arose, and an album was put together using a mixture of both his old and new recordings.

The album is based around the Genesis album 'Duke', which was released on March 24, 1980, so being a big fan of the band, Frank rushed out and bought the album on the very first day and took it straight home to listen to it. He was quite surprised, however, that there seemed to be no consistent concept, and the songs appeared to him to be only partially connected.

Despite this, he still found the album fascinating, and as a result he decided to create and tell his own interpretation of the true story of 'The Duke'. He began researching the various instruments and effects that Genesis had used in 1980, obtained access to working examples of them, and constructed the story of a medieval Duke who flees into the desert after being betrayed by his own henchmen, and who then tries to find a way to regain his strength and, with the help of his still loyal people, return home to answer their call.

Helping him with the recording of the album was G�nter Schl�nkes, the guitarist and bassist of German progressive rock band Riven Earth, and a multi-instrumentalist named Daniel J.S. Lewis, who had previously recorded an EP with Frank called 'Kings' as the duo 'Waran' in 2005, and who used to run a studio in Buffalo...Red LLoyd is the solo project of Frank Altpeter, the vocalist and keyboard player of the German Gary Moore tribute band 'Moore and More', based in Cologne, Germany.

Frank had been playing rock music in a live band, whilst also writing his own music, for a long time, but until the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 he had never the opportunity to record it. As a result of the imposed Covid-19 restrictions however, he was finally able to go into the studio to lay down his ideas and find some fellow musicians to help him record them.

He had been inspired by prog rock from an early age, especially Pink Floyd and Genesis, and he found that as he recorded the tracks they became more and more cinematic, almost to the point where he considered them to be epics.

Some of the ideas had originated back in the early 1980s, when Frank was experimenting with various types of hardware, synthesizers etc, and it was at this time that he discovered the first Digital Audio Workstations, which made multitracking capabilities available for everyone. During the lockdowns of early 2020 he was able to revive his old recordings with modern equipment, some new ideas arose, and an album was put together using a mixture of both his old and new recordings.

The album is based around the Genesis album 'Duke', which was released on March 24, 1980, so being a big fan of the band, Frank rushed out and bought the album on the very first day and took it straight home to listen to it. He was quite surprised, however, that there seemed to be no consistent concept, and the songs appeared to him to be only partially connected.

Despite this, he still found the album fascinating, and as a result he decided to create and tell his own interpretation of the true story of 'The Duke'. He began researching the various instruments and effects that Genesis had used in 1980, obtained access to working examples of them, and constructed the story of a medieval Duke who flees into the desert after being betrayed by his own henchmen, and who then tries to find a way to regain his strength and, with the help of his still loyal people, return home to answer their call.

Helping him with the recording of the album was G�nter Schl�nkes, the guitarist and bassist of German progressive rock band Riven Earth, and a multi-instrumentalist named Daniel J.S. Lewis, who had previously recorded an EP with Frank called 'Kings' as the duo 'Waran' in 2005, and who used to run a studio in Buffalo, NY called Dead Dog Studio.

The album was released as a CD and digital download on January 10, 2025 by the Munich-based ZOUNDR record label.

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