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24.V+ Tinyfish
24.V+ Kingcrow
24.V+ Shadowland
24.V+ Transatlantic
24.V+ Steven Wilson
24.V+ Todd Rundgren
24.V+ Psychic For Radio
24.V+ Morphine Machine
24.V+ Jolly
24.V+ Flood
24.V+ It Bites
24.V+ Illumion
24.V+ Mind Key
24.V+ Musea Records
24.V+ K-Scope Records
24.V+ Cuneiform Records
24.V+ Metal Mind Records
24.V+ Viajero Inmovil Records


BANDS & PERFORMERS:

SAW
(USA) / May 24, 2009

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SAW

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RPWL
(Germany) / May 24, 2009

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Metal Mind Records

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Tinyfish
(UK) / May 24, 2009

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Metal Mind Records

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Kingcrow
(Italy) / May 24, 2009

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Kingcrow

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Shadowland
(UK) / May 24, 2009

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Metal Mind Records

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Transatlantic
(International) / May 24, 2009

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Transatlantic

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Steven Wilson
(UK) / May 24, 2009

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K-Scope Music

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Todd Rundgren
(Canada) / May 24, 2009

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Todd Rundgren

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Psychic For Radio
(USA) / May 24, 2009

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Psychic For Radio

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Morphine Machine
(Holland) / May 24, 2009

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Morphine Machine

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Jolly
(Italy) / May 24, 2009

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Galileo Records

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Flood
(UK) / May 24, 2009

New release:

Unicorn Digital and La Villa Strangiato are proud to present the world premiere of FFlood’s debut album “Tales from the Four Seasons”. This is the chill out album of the year. It comes right from the heart of the English countryside. The album follows a year in the life of the woodland. Four tracks take you through each season from the early morning mists of Spring, the strawberries and ice cream of Summer through to the cider apples and golden leaves of Autumn and finally the snow covered landscape of Winter. The stories are told through acoustic guitar against a backdrop of chamber orchestra and piano. “Tales from the Four Seasons” is an instrumental album. It began life as a short piece entitled Summer written whilst on holiday in Dorset five years ago and became a four suites concept album. Although typically drawn to more heavy arrangements in terms of the use of synthesizers, bass pedals and electric guitars, Flood felt it was important to keep the orchestration and choice of instruments the same as had been used on Summer. The original orchestration has been augmented by the use of piano, upright bass clarinet and drums. Each season is made up of individual movements linked together using short linking passages. The music was inspired by the sights and sounds of the English countryside.

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Unicorn Digital

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It Bites
(UK) / May 24, 2009

New release:

It Bites were originally formed in 1982, when school friends Francis Dunnery, Dick Nolan and Bob Dalton met John Beck. After playing gigs at working men’s clubs and nightclubs locally for a year, the band decided to call it a day. Six months later, the musicians met by chance in a pub, and the idea of reforming was discussed. Their debut album, Big Lad in the Windmill, came in July 1986 and dented the album charts at number 35. The band toured with Go West, then Marillion in late 1987, and Robert Plant in early 1988. The follow-up album Once around the World was produced by Steve Hillage and released in March 1988. It showcased their more progressive musical influences. The band toured successfully across the UK, USA and Japan. Eat Me in St. Louis was released in 1989, but in 1990 – during the process of writing their fourth album – Dunnery announced that he was leaving It Bites. Thank You & Goodnight, a live recording, was the band’s last record which came out in August 1991. Now back with the new album ”The Tall Ships” and a new guitarist/vocalist in John Mitchell (Arena, Kino, Frost), It Bites shows that they still create some incredible music with infectious hooks.

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Progrock Records

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Illumion
(Holland) / May 24, 2009

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Illumion

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Mind Key
(Italy) / May 24, 2009

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Mind Key

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RECORDING COMPANIES:

Musea Records
(France) / May 24, 2009

New releases:

  • Tuonen Tytar II (International) – “A Tribute to Finnish Progressive Rock” 3CD
  • Quikion (Japan) – “Escargot Blanco”
  • Progression By Failure (France) – “Progression by Failure”
  • Being & Time (Japan) – “Being & Time”
  • Echo Us (USA) – “Echo Us”
  • Little Tragedies (Russia) – “The Paris Symphony”
  • Mindflower (Italy) – “Little Enchanted Void”
  • Kotebel (Spain) – “Ouroboros”
  • Abacab (France) – “Mal de Terre”
  • Fantasmagoria (Japan) – “Day & Night”
  • Narrow Pass (Italy) – “In This World & Beyond”
  • Sebkha Chott (France) – “De la Persistance de la Mythologie”
  • Tee (Japan) – “The Earth Explorer”
  • No Name (Luxemburg) – “20 Candles”
  • Bertrand Loureau (France) – “Reminiscences”
  • Pascal Comelade (France) – “Tribute”
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    Musea Records

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    K-Scope Records
    (UK) / May 24, 2009

    New releases:

  • Engineers (UK) – “Three Fact Fader”
  • No-Man (UK) – “Wherever there is Light”
  • The Pineapple Thief (UK) – “The Dawn Raids”
  • Anekdoten (Sweden) – “Chapters”

    Engineers – “Three Fact Fader”
    Engineers’ long awaited second album, “Three Fact Fader”, is due to released on K-Scope Music on July 6th. To mark the release, the band will be playing their first live gig in over two years on July 10th at the Bush Hall in London. In addition, Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree / ex-Japan) will also be performing a rare live set on what promises to be a special evening.

    No-Man – “Wherever there is Light” EP
    Acting as a bridge between No-Man's elegiac 2008 return Schoolyard Ghosts and the forthcoming live concert DVD “Mixtaped”, “Wherever there is Light” is a strictly limited edition release. From Schoolyard Ghosts, the poignant title track features an incredible guest performance from US pedal steel legend Bruce Kaphan (American Music Club/Red House Painters) . The alt-country tinged Death Was California and the atmospheric Counting are two new songs especially written for the EP, while Carolina Skeletons and All the Blue Changes are the first recordings released from No-Man's sell-out autumn 2008 mini-tour. Also containing Grant Wakefied's poetic video for the title track, a powerful preview from the Mixtaped DVD, and a striking Carl Glover designed digi-pack, the enhanced “Wherever there is Light” EP is a rare and beautiful thing from the band Uncut memorably described as 'Britain's most underrated sorrowful sonic architects'.

    The Pineapple Thief – “The Dawn Raids” (Parts 1 & 2) EPs
    The Pineapple Thief return with two four track EPs, entitled “The Dawn Raids”. The EPs are available as limited edition CDs and or to download. The CDs will be strictly limited to 2,000 copies of each and are only available from the Kscope store . Both EPs will be available from all major download platforms soon but can currently be downloaded from the Kscope store as either mp3s or as Flacs (high quality lossless files). In addition to two versions of Tightly Wound the EPs feature several unreleased tracks. Bitter Day is a specially written track, Freefall is a previously unreleased track, but a live favourite, and The West Coast and February 13th are unreleased Tightly Unwound session tracks. Due to popular demand, two tracks from the previous digital only EP Too Far Gone and Second Chance are also included.

    Anekdoten – “Chapters”
    “Chapters”, a 2CD introduction to Anekdoten , is now available from the Kscope store. Anekdoten are considered one of the leading bands in contemporary progressive rock. The band formed in Sweden in 1991 and has released five albums on their own Virta label. Chapters is a 2CD set which mixes tracks from these albums along with rarities and unreleased tracks.

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    K-Scope Records

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    Cuneiform Records
    (USA) / May 24, 2009

  • Led Bib (UK) – “Sensible Shoes”
  • Miriodor (Canada) – “Avanti!”
  • Positive Catastrophe (USA) - “Garabatos Vol. 1”
  • Ed Palermo Big Band (USA) – “Eddy Loves Frank”
  • Upsilon Acrux (USA) – “Radian Futura”

    Led Bib“Sensible Shoes” (Genre: Jazz)
    “Fun” may not be a word you expect to hear in relation to jazz, but it’s the addition of this playfulness that has over years seen Led Bib throw out any preconceptions and play for audiences who don’t consider themselves jazz fans or would not even necessarily know that they like jazz in the least. With a very loud blast of anarchic rock, a surge of euphoric jazz and an irrepressible burst of band laughter, the UK quintet Led Bib release their fourth album. A tremendously popular act at home in the UK, where they regularly play large-scale festivals and concert halls (as well as playing the typical club gigs.) Sensible Shoes is their first recording to be released outside of the UK.

    Miriodor“Avanti!” (Genre: Avant-garde Progressive Rock)
    The Montreal-based quartet, Miriodor create instrumental music that is complex, playful, visually evocative, and exquisitely performed. The band describes its sound as “like a soundtrack for a movie, a movie with weird and strange stories,” and indeed, each CD is like a book of short video stories, each differing in subject and mood. Their compositions are each as intricate as an Escher drawing and entertaining as fun-house mirrors. Miriodor’s distinctive compositions and its rigorous musicianship have identified it as the main Canadian exponent of the R.I.O. (Rock In Opposition) sound with an unpresumptuous, light-hearted, and sincerely entertaining twist.

    Positive Catastrophe - “Garabatos Vol. 1” (Genre: Jazz / Latin Jazz)
    Positive Catastrophe is the brainchild of Taylor Ho Bynum and Abraham Gomez-Delgado . Bynum has been described as “animated as a vintage Loony Tune...one of the most exciting figures in jazz's new power generation” (Steve Dollar, Time Out Chicago). Gomez-Delgado has been called “the new century's mad scientist, creating a musical hybrid so seemingly wrong it can be nothing but right” ( Global Rhythm Magazine ). Together they have come up with Positive Catastrophe: a trans-idiomatic ten-piece little big band that successfully connects the dots between Sun Ra and Eddie Palmieri.

    Ed Palermo Big Band“Eddy Loves Frank” (Genre: Jazz / Big Band Jazz)
    As a jazz arranger, composer, bandleader and saxophonist, Ed Palermo works magic with Frank Zappa ’s music. These big-band jazz arrangements are no mere transcriptions; they are “revelations”, as one critic best said. Palermo belongs to a tradition of visionary composers and arrangers who have recognized hidden beauty and genius in an avant garde composer’s radical work, and created genius arrangements that help reveal that beauty to the public eye. Palermo’s arrangements have helped bring Zappa’s rock music wider recognition outside of the rock world, elevating rock music’s status as ‘serious’ composition while proving that serious and satirical can indeed coexist.

    Upsilon Acrux (USA) – “Radian Futura” (Genre: Rock / Post-Punk / Progressive Metal)
    Upsilon Acrux is among the best of the bands transforming the post-punk landscape, reinvigorating modern music's physically powerful, aggressive and speed-driven sound by infusing it with a compositional intensity and technical prowess long associated with various forms of metal and progressive rock. In Upsilon Acrux’s hands, this sonic fusion results in an explosive new music that is both exhilarating and abstract. Radian Futura is an album of explosive, intense and surprisingly beautiful, intricate, instrumental rock: simultaneously physical and cerebral, challenging and melodic.

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    Cuneiform Records

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    Metal Mind Records
    (Poland) / May 24, 2009

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    Metal Mind Records

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    Viajero Inmovil Records
    (Argentina) / May 24, 2009

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