Rushfan4's New CD Thread 9 - Roswell Six

In continuation of my meager attempt to divert some PA forum discussion time away from Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater and the other usual suspects, here is my 9th installment of Rushfan4's New CD Discussion Thread.  The Shadow Circus thread was relatively successful as I enjoyed learning more about the album than I might otherwise have learned, so maybe something similar can occur with this one.  This month's album is Roswell Six's Terra Incognita: Beyond The Horizon.  There is one slight deviation from my devious plan to divert attention from bands such as Dream Theater, because James LaBrie is one of the vocalists on this album.  This is in fact an album performed by a prog rock all-star team.  The vocalists are James LaBrie, Lana Lane, Michael Sadler from Saga, and John Payne from Asia and GPS.  The album is produced by keyboard player Erik Norlander.  Guitars are by Gary Wehrkamp from Shadow Gallery.  Bass guitar is Kurt Barabas from Amaran's Plight, amongst others.  The drummer is Chris Quirarte from Prymary.  Also involved are Kansas' David Ragsdale on violin, IQ's Martin Orford on flute, and Chris Brown from Ghost Circus.  The album's concept was written by and is based on a novel by bestselling Sci-Fi author Kevin J. Anderson and his wife Rebecca Moesta.  There is a companion novel to go along with the CD.  I haven't purhased or read that yet, but I am certainly intrigued and it is on my to-do list. 

Edited by rushfan4 - March 02 2010 at 16:14

Thanks Scott....its available on Zune Marketplace with my Zune Pass so I am d/l now and will listen later at the gym...

^ I am not a big book reader......But I'll check out the website. I do like all the bands listed as influencial...including DT

Got thru the first 4 tracks...Good stuff for sure!!! As usual Lana Lane comes thru on Halfway....and Labrie sounds very good.

What fortunate timing, I'm working on a press release for the next album for next week as we speak, I've got some details to work out still, but all the music is done and almost all the vocals, we should be in to mixing in about 2 weeks.  I can tell you that Steve Walsh of Kansas and Sass Jordan, who you may or may not known, but she's sold millions of albums and had the exact sound we needed, are on vocals.  This new album focuses the battles in the 2nd novel and we needed a different sound, so we have Henning Pauly doing the music.  

Personally I'm really pleased with how this has come out, of course I'd say that, but really, this is the best stuff I've heard Steve do in an outside project, and he really took his time with it.  I'll have audio samples up with the press release, so I won't prejudice it ahead of time with a description, but it's very different than the first one.

Sadler on Vocals?? Awesome! Saga aren't the same without him, sadly.

That'll never happen, Michael Kiske retired from Metal

BTW, I am giving this album another spin as I type.

BigBoss wrote: Sadler continues to be one of my very favorite vocalists and he still knocks it out of the park.  He's getting close to finishing our band project Psychic for Radio as well.  Imagine how cool it is to have your favorite singer, singing songs you wrote.

It has been a few days.  Time to give this one another spin and listen.  I guess this album doesn't seem to hit the wow chord for others as much as me.  I am a huge Erik Norlander fan.  To me, Erik is kind of like the second coming of Keith Emerson on the keys.  And I am always up for a concept story to go along with my music.  Thus, I listen.