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rustedsynapse 
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 Topic: Geo Andrade (Anabasis) releases rock opera "Airs"Posted: May 08 2012 at 10:24 |
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Hello friends and colleagues!
It's been awhile but I wanted to let you all know that Steve and I are giving away a copy of our rock opera and all you have to do to be entered for a chance is to visit our Facebook page and leave a message - that's it! Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/AIRS.Brockmann.Andrade Good luck and thanks for your continued interest and support!
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rustedsynapse
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Thank you guys!
 From our Facebook page: Steve and I are pleased to announce that we will be giving away the single "Annabelle" on CDBaby as a gift to all of you, our dear friends of "AIRS", with our thanks and compliments for your continued support!
We have been blown away by the statistics being registered lately here on our Facebook page and at the official "AIRS" website:
To receive your free digital download of "Annabelle" - beginning tomorrow April 7th and available for one week through April 14th - simply follow the link:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/brockmannandrade
Select song #10 - "Annabelle" - place it in your cart and checkout! Simple as that! If you are not registered at CDBaby you will be asked for your email address before proceeding to checkout.
And while you're there, why not have a listen to another song sample from the rock opera ... perhaps you may want to add it to your cart for the low, low price of .99 cents? (smooth, huh?)
To hear the entire rock opera streaming (and to have the ability to open the lyric book in a separate window), please follow this link: http://www.airs-arockopera.com/Media/Audio.aspx
Steve and I love you all and consider ourselves blessed to have met so many new friends and colleagues through "Airs - A Rock Opera" ... we appreciate this experience more than you know.
Our hearts on strings ... Thank you to everyone here at Prog Archives for checking us out, listening and spreading the word! |
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Posted: April 06 2012 at 09:55 |
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Nice - a true highlight of the album
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Hi everyone!
I wanted to thank you all for the attention and consideration you have been gracious enough to have shown Steve Brockmann and I in the months since the release of "Airs - A Rock Opera" - it has been amazing and we are humbled beyond belief! It's been like enjoying ice cream with a truckload of sprinkles!  We have released another video single that you may be interested in checking out ... it is a gorgeous, soul stirring performance by Floor Kraayvanger narrating the spiritual coming together of the main characters of AIRS ... a perfect, gospel tinged music for this Easter weekend 2012, regardless of your religious beliefs! "And she rises / Rises to freedom / She laughs and rest her head on Owen's chest / We fly / You're my sky" Enjoy and please visit us (if you haven't already) at http://airs-arockopera.com/Home.aspx! |
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Hello once again, friends and colleagues!
 Well, we've received some wonderful, well thought out (and written!) reviews of AIRS from Andy, laz and Rivertree of which we are so very appreciative - thanks, boys!  We have released our first "video single" today and as promised I am posting it here - we hope that you enjoy it and thanks for taking the time to check it out! 
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Fantastic news that Brockmann/Andrade has been added to Prog Archives as a Crossover Prog band!
Hooray!  Thank yous go out to Andy Webb, Uwe Zickel and Steve Lazenby for early support and championing of us and then to, of course, the crossover prog team of Olav Martin Bjørnsen, Scott Gold, Warthur and Windhawk for their ears and ultimate consideration! Cheers to all of you who have checked this humble thread from me and Steve ... here is the link to the page for "Airs - A Rock Opera": http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=36638 We would love to hear what you think - please let us know! Oh ... the website is officially launched! Please visit www.airs-arockopera.com - sign-up for the mailing list and get an instant download to an unreleased track, "The Moment's Eye", the first that Steve and I wrote together for what was to be Steve's next album, ha-ha-ha!
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^have talked with Steve via Facebook a bit, nice guy he is ...
a very informative interview ... well done project is cleared for inclusion in the meanwhile - it won't take long ... Edited by Rivertree - February 09 2012 at 12:01 |
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Hello again my friends!
I really appreciate all of the kind attention and gracious notes that this thread has elicited - you are all wonderful and I am so very pleased to be associated here!  With that in mind, and in the spirit of sharing some more information on the project, I thought that I might post our "band bio" for you to check out (has a bit more background and information than the press release). Brockmann/Andrade is the collaborative
writing team of multi-instrumental recording artist and composer Steve
Brockmann (Bredstedt, Germany) and freelance writer/editor George Andrade (Fall
River, MA, USA). In 2008 (or
thereabouts), George approached Steve with the idea of writing an album from a subplot to a novel that he had planned to write based
loosely on the “punishment” of the Manisses Indians on Block Island, Rhode
Island for the “accidental” murder of the captain of a trading vessel by a
chieftain’s son and the subsequent “claim by right of conquest” and resettlement
thereafter. Great idea, huh?
It was a book that was to deal with the individual mistakes
that can bring down families and communities (and nations) and become the
sins of fathers visited upon sons … and the transcendence of this guilt of
lineage by ultimately reconciling one's self-perception with one's reality and
coming to terms with the “space between the bars” of such self-imposed
prisons. It was about a miller and
stonemason’s son who returns home from prison to mend the
walls and fences that he has destroyed and soon learns to speak of wind and air
- not stone and mortar - and through the help of those he's injured understands
that our hearts are on strings … as his father had always dreamed. How rock n roll is that?
The idea quickly grew from a concept album to
a full blown rock opera and was named, well, “Airs – A Rock Opera” – and Brockmann/Andrade was born.
Steve Brockmann has written 74
minutes of exciting and emotional music that runs the gamut of rock, metal,
blues, pop, gospel and even cinematic score in a classic rock opera style that
has been described by some as a “mixture of Eloy
and Camel and Savatage” and “Toto-esque AOR-flavored hard rock, utilizing
progressive twists and turns a la Spock’s Beard … as well as many a salute to
the complex metal structures of Iron Maiden”.
The story by George Andrade is Bradbury-esque and naturalistic presented
through lyrics that are drawn as if working from a “word palette”, interspersed
with narrative passages that set the stage for Brockmann’s oftentimes cinematic
score.
"A theatrical feast for the heart and
mind, “Airs - A Rock Opera" tells her story with simplicity and elegance:
on a small circular island in the Atlantic, Owen Doane has rolled through a
stop sign and driven a car carrying two tourists – a mother and her 9 year old
daughter - from the road to strike a stone wall. The accident caused the
girl to suffer injuries that paralyzed her from the waist down, confining her
life to a chair and thereby forcing Owen's father, Derrick Doane, to suffer the
collapse of his company that had been built upon the Doane family heritage of
pulling stone from fields before harvest and building walls after milling grain
since they had first settled Manisses Island in 1664. Owen returns home
from prison to mend the walls and fences that he has destroyed and soon learns
to speak of wind and air - not stone and mortar - and through the help of those
he's injured understands that our hearts are on strings. A powerful,
vintage '70s/'80s rock score by Steve Brockmann conveys all of the loss,
disillusionment, rekindled hope, reconciliation and ultimate redemption that is
Owen's journey and is rich with soaring cinematic passages!"
Steve
and George first "met" on the Spock's Beard message board awhile back
(4+ years ago) where they also had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Barry
Thompson (The ANABASIS), John Fontana (Shadow Circus), Paul Adrian Villarreal
(Sun Caged), Josh Sager (Din Within), Jamie McGregor (Singularity) and Martin
Kornick (artwork for The ANABASIS) to name a but few ... those were some pretty
heady times filled with exciting company for all!
The musicians there would
occasionally send music files back and forth to collaborate for personal
satisfaction as well as for charity (The Tsunami Projekt, being the most
famous) and George would always be "that guy" on the outside looking
in, jumping up and down at the perimeter of the circle hoping to one day be
permitted to join in! Well, after much hinting on his part that day
eventually came – the group decided to let "the writer guy" take a
shot at writing lyrics to a song. He was thrilled when his words were
well received and it was soon thereafter that he received an email from Steve
Brockmann asking if he would consider writing lyrics to a song that he had
written intended for his next solo album (Pools Under Ganymede, TBA).
George jumped at the
chance and the song became "The Moment's Eye" … Steve and George hit
it off immediately and very quickly found that they saw eye to eye (no pun
intended) artistically. They quickly realized,
too, that they shared an emotional and aesthetic kinship as well as the uncanny
ability to develop each others' vision through their respective crafts.
They also found that they each had the proclivity and the eye to tell
stories through songs in complimentary ways; George’s lyrics tended to be
narrative in nature and Steve’s music was sweeping and cinematic in scope
(though firmly rooted in rock).
It was then that George decided
(rather boldly) to approach Steve with the thought of perhaps writing an album
together ... he told him the idea that he had based upon a book he was
developing and proceeded to send a 20 page, single-spaced synopsis in English (not Steve’s native tongue, of course) to
Germany! A couple of weeks
passed … and then George (who had been getting a bit worried) finally heard
back from Steve who sent him an instrumental that was gorgeous, ornate and majestic
- a perfect opening number! That evening, unable to sleep, George finally
got up not long after midnight with the song swimming in his head and wrote the
words to what would become the opening track (“Fateful Days”) of their debut
rock opera ... and they were off! Fateful days, indeed.
Steve assembled a magnificent cast of
vocalists to perform the roles of the characters from “AIRS”; beginning with
the lead “Owen”, Steve’s strategy was to cast the voices based upon the multiple
emotional intensities required for the “scenes”/songs as well as the
psychological undercurrents of the action – Paul Adrian Villarreal (Sun Caged),
Gordon Tittsworth (Images of Eden/Dread The Forsaken), Tilman Eckelt
(Grailknights), Cornelius Kappabani (Bifrost) and Jan Hoving (Stonefly/A.
Vandenberg) all rose to the occasion and fleshed out the character
superbly. Gordon Tittsworth also
performed as “Derrick” (Owen’s father) while Cornelius Kappabani played the
roles of ”Derrick”, “Craig” (Owen’s brother) and “The Islanders”. The lead female role of “Annabelle” was
performed beautifully, soulfully by Floor Kraaijvanger (Superfloor/Floored) and
the role of young “Hannah” was tenderly portrayed by Antila Thomsen.
The band of musicians was just as impressive
with Steve performing all guitars, bass and keyboards except for bass on “The
Great Salt Pond” played by his brother Christoph Brockmann (North Band -
Germany) and special guest appearances by Dave Meros who played bass on two
songs (“Annabelle” and “Flight II”) and Alan Morse who provided his signature
guitar effects and sailing solos to the finale (“Flight II”). The drums were played by Jochen Ohl (North
Band – Germany) with Phil Robertson (Warner, Polygram, Electra, EMI, Atlantic
session player) behind the kit on “Grounded II”.
The album was recorded and mixed by Steve
Brockmann at his Fencesound Music Studios, Nordfriesland, Germany and mastered
by Andy Horn at The Red Room, Berolzheim, Germany.
Floor Kraaijvanger and Jan Hoving were
recorded at EDGETIP recording studio, Arnhem, Netherlands by Raoul Soentken. Gordon Tittsworth was recorded at Astral Sun
Studios in Red Lion, PA, USA. Paul
Adrian Villarreal was recorded in a Large Wooden Badger in KluBerath, Germany. Antila Thomsen, Tilman Eckelt and Cornelius
Kappabani were recorded by Steve Brockmann at Fencesound Music Studios,
Nordfriesland, Germany. Alan Morse was
recorded in Monrovia, CA, USA. Dave Meros was recorded at Pollo Del Mar in Fair
Oaks, CA, USA. Phil Robertson was
recorded at Crawlspace in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Tony Kost, Seann Jackson, Leigh Andrade and
Nicolette Collard-Andrade were recorded in Providence, RI, USA and Fall River,
MA, USA by George Andrade.
For daily updates and coverage of the release
please visit the official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AIRS.Brockmann.Andrade
“Airs – A Rock Opera” will be available for
immediate delivery from Fencesound Music as well as for sale in all major
retail outlets and digital download sites on February 29, 2012. The track listing for “Airs – A Rock Opera” is:Now I Know
1. Fateful Days (featuring Paul Adrian
Villareal)
2. Grounded (featuring Gordon Tittsworth)
3. Kites (featuring Tilman Eckelt)
4. Flight (featuring Cornelius Kappabani)
5. Current Events
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Winds of Change (featuring Gordon Tittsworth)
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Heirs (featuring Gordon Tittsworth & Cornelius Kappabani)
- Winds
of Change II (featuring Cornelius Kappabani)
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Errs (featuring Gordon Tittsworth)
Book of Airs
6. History (instrumental)
7. Heritage (featuring Gordon Tittsworth)
8. Experiments (featuring Gordon Tittsworth)
9. Floating (instrumental) The Flyer
10. Annabelle (featuring Jan Hoving)
11. The Center (featuring Floor Kraaijvanger
& Gordon Tittsworth)
12. Fateful Days II (featuring Antila
Thomsen)
13. Hannah (featuring Cornelius Kappabani
& Antila Thomsen) Airs
14. The Great Salt Pond (featuring Floor
Kraaijvanger)
15. Grounded II (featuring Gordon Tittsworth
& spoken cast)
16. Kites II (instrumental)
17. Flight II (featuring Floor Kraaijvanger,
Antila Thomsen & Cornelius Kappabani)
18. Owen (featuring Paul Adrian Villarreal) Steve Brockmann, music composer,
arranger and producer, is a multi-instrumentalist who has played an active role
in Northern Germany’s music scene since the early 1980s. Amongst others, he has
played support gigs for such rock legends as Uriah Heep, Moody Marsden Band,
and Hawkwind. Steve currently concentrates his musical work on various projects in his personal
studio. Steve’s releases include “Don’t Sing” (2001), “Broskro Skrobro” (2002),
“Expected Errors” (2007). He has also composed
and contributed charity singles for The Haiti Project,
a collaborative album of 40 musicians and bands including Neal Morse, Roine
Stolt, Dave Meros and IZZ (“For You” 2010), and for Förderkreis für krebskranke Kinder und Jugendliche. e.V., a center for young children and teens living with cancer in
Northern Germany (“For Those Who Left, For Those Who Came (Christmas
Eve)” 2011).
George Andrade, story, lyrics and
narratives, is the lyricist and Executive Producer for the progressive metal band
The ANABASIS (10T Records). He has
written adult and children’s fiction, reviewed
albums for such progressive bands as Mars Hollow,
Shadow Circus and Relocator, reviews novels for HorrorNews.net, provides critical
readings for screenplays and is a freelance editor. He is listed in the Locus Magazine author index and has been an
artist-in-residence for Very Special Arts Rhode Island. He also wrote, produced and directed the
short film “Supports’ which won a RI Cable Award for “Best
Entertainment/Variety” in 1992.
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Posted: February 07 2012 at 08:45 |
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Hello, friends and colleagues!
I thought that I would share a really cool interview that Steve gave with MetalShock Finland ... a pleasant conversation about his playing experiences and influences - and of course "AIRS"!  |
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Oh man, very cool and exciting to hear such responses from you guys ...
This baby pre-dates The ANABASIS (!) - Steve and I have nurtured her as best we could through these past couple of years and we look forward to finally releasing the album for "the world" to hear! I appreciate all for the kind words and any attention or consideration you may give the project in the coming weeks - thank you! Again, if we happen to be so fortunate as to be voted for inclusion by the crossover prog team we would appreciate any who would like to review "AIRS" - we start with a digital copy (master music and art files) to get you going and then we'll send youa physical copy with our thanks!!
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Indeed, I enjoyed those songs as well! The whole album is a melodic joy ride; chock full of great themes and tricks to please any and all fans of the AOR-flavored prog hard rock.
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It's a damn fine piece of work
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Posted: February 02 2012 at 19:09 |
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Here are our first two trailers - starring Karlos the Prog Pug!
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Thank you so very much, Uwe - your kind comments mean a lot to me ... this project is very personal and dear.
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Stones, mills, kites, the book of Airs ... Owen's tragedy, but hope and confidence as well ... an interesting story, for the heart and mind, indeed - and I'm with Dave Meros ... some songs are 'burners' in the meanwhile, speaking of 'Annabelle' and 'The Great Salt Pond' first and foremost
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Greetings, Prog Archives friends and colleagues! You were all so very kind and welcoming of me and Barry Thompson's debut project of The ANABASIS "Back From Being Gone" ... might I humbly submit with hat in hand my latest writing endeavor? This is a rock opera that I wrote with the extremely talented Steve Brockmann (German recording artist and producer) based upon a subplot from a novel that I had planned to write in the dim and distant past (well, these things take awhile ) ... it's called "Airs - A Rock Opera", and we're quite proud of it and would really love for you all to check it out.Now, I've already passed this along in private to Andy Webb and Uwe Zickel for their advance reviews and thoughts and I believe that the album has since been turned over to the "Crossover Prog" team for consideration. We have two teaser trailers available (just follow the bouncing hyperlinks below) and we will be releasing more in the coming month as well as a full single, "Annabelle". Also, once our website is finished being built, we will have a trailer for the complete rock opera with teasers from all 18 songs in their running order. In the meantime, for continuous up-to-date information and coverage of the release please visit us at our official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AIRS.Brockmann.Andrade If we are fortunate enough to be included here on Prog Archives, I would really appreciate the opportunity to be reviewed by any of the collaborators or freelancers - anyone interested please don't hesitate to get in touch with me for an advanced copy! Thank you for your time - here is our official press release!  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 30, 2012 – Steve Brockmann (“Expected Errors”) and George Andrade (The ANABASIS) to release “AIRS – A ROCK OPERA”, Featuring Guest Appearances by Paul Adrian Villarreal (Sun Caged), Gordon Tittsworth (Images of Eden), Dave Meros and Alan Morse (Spock’s Beard) on Fencesound Music. Fall River, MA, USA/Bredstedt,
Germany - January 30, 2012 (Fencesound Music) – Fencesound Music is thrilled to
announce the pending release of the full length, debut rock opera from Steve Brockmann
and George Andrade (Brockmann/Andrade) entitled “Airs – A Rock Opera”, on
February 29, 2012.
“Airs – A Rock Opera” is packed with 74 minutes
of exciting and emotional music that runs the gamut of rock, metal, blues, pop,
gospel and even cinematic score in a classic rock opera style and comes with a
beautifully designed, 24 page lyric book illustrating an engaging narrative story.
Steve Brockmann, music composer, arranger
and producer, is a multi-instrumentalist who has played an active role in
Northern Germany’s music scene since the early 1980s. Amongst others, he has
played support gigs for such rock legends as Uriah Heep, Moody Marsden Band,
and Hawkwind. Steve currently concentrates his musical work on various projects
in his personal studio. Steve’s releases include “Don’t Sing” (2001), “Broskro
Skrobro” (2002), “Expected Errors” (2007) and the upcoming “Pools Under
Ganymede”.
George Andrade, story, lyrics and
narratives, is the lyricist and Executive Producer for the progressive metal
band The ANABASIS (10T Records). He has written adult and children’s fiction, provides
critical readings of screenplays, reviews novels for HorrorNews.net and is a freelance
editor. He is listed in the Locus Magazine author index and has been an
artist-in-residence for Very Special Arts Rhode Island. He also wrote, produced and directed the short
film “Supports’ which won RI Cable Award for “Best Entertainment/Variety”.
"A theatrical feast for the heart and
mind, “Airs - A Rock Opera" tells her story with simplicity and elegance:
on a small circular island in the Atlantic, Owen Doane has rolled through a
stop sign and driven a car carrying two tourists – a mother and her 9 year old
daughter - from the road to strike a stone wall. The accident caused the
girl to suffer injuries that paralyzed her from the waist down, confining her
life to a chair and thereby forcing Owen's father, Derrick Doane, to suffer the
collapse of his company that had been built upon the Doane family heritage of
pulling stone from fields before harvest and building walls after milling grain
since they had first settled Manisses Island in 1664. He returns home
from prison to mend the walls and fences that he has destroyed and soon learns
to speak of wind and air - not stone and mortar - and through the help of those
he's injured understands that our hearts are on strings. A powerful,
vintage '70s/'80s rock score by Steve Brockmann conveys all of the loss,
disillusionment, rekindled hope, reconciliation and ultimate redemption that is
Owen's journey and is rich with soaring cinematic passages!"
“Being such a fan of 70s art-rock, particularly Kansas, Styx and Genesis, I was honored and thrilled when George and Steve asked me to participate in the AIRS rock opera,” says Paul Adrian Villarreal. “It was a pure pleasure to work on such a wonderful project and alongside so many other great talents. I can’t wait to hear it in its final form, and for the rest of the world to hear it! Thanks, guys and let’s do it again sometime!” “What can I say – it’s an amazing piece of art
and contains one of my favorite songs that I’ve heard in quite some time,” says
Gordon Tittsworth. “”Kites” always takes me to a better place no matter how
many times I hear it.”
“... The songs (“Annabelle” and “Flight II”) are
both really great. I still have “Annabelle” circulating in my head. Every once
in a while I'll find myself humming that one,” says Dave Meros. “I don't know
if you've heard the term, but when something enters your ears and stays there
for a long period of time and you can't stop thinking about it whether you like
it or not, it's called an "ear worm".
Annabelle is one of my current ear worms.”
“The
album’s 18 tracks explore a host of themes and elements, twisting and turning
moods with the whim of the emotive lyrics, awakening the script from just words
on a page to the heightened sense of emotion of which they deserve,” says Andy
Webb of Prog Archives. “The continuity of melodies, the truly “human” concept,
the mature and accessible compositions, and the fantastic production quality
make this album shine, showing the great creative prowess of the minds of
George Andrade and Steve Brockmann.”
“Airs – A Rock Opera” by Brockmann/Andrade is available for immediate pre-order through the official “AIRS” website or at Fencesound Music. All orders received by February 19 will be entered into a random drawing for a chance to receive one of fifteen 8.5x11 signed glossy prints of the AIRS logo and kite detail from the album cover design of Matt Willett and will be shipped in time to be received as close to the release date as possible. Also available at your favorite online, digital download, or retail outlet on 2/29/12. Teaser trailers from “Airs – A Rock Opera” are now available to preview on the Fencesound Music YouTube Channel. Additional trailers and the release of a single “Annabelle” are soon to follow. Further promotional support provided by month long radio campaign culminating with World Premiere Event on AiiRadio, February 28, 2012. Updated
information available on the Official Facebook Page. Contact
information: Steve Brockmann / George
Andrade
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