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BANDS & PERFORMERS:RECORDING COMPANIES:
12.II+ Elegant Simplicity
12.II+ Soft Machine
12.II+ Saga
12.II+ Yoke Shire
12.II+ Mellow Records
12.II+ Musea Records
12.II+ Lizard Records
12.II+ Unicorn Records


BANDS & PERFORMERS:

Elegant Simplicity
(UK) / February 12, 2006

Latest News:

Elegant Simplicity have tentative plans to re-record, re-mix and generally re-vamp some songs from "Palindrome" and "Architect of Light" and to release them as an EP. The songs will be a lot different to the original versions and are designed to introduce the casual listener to our music. It will consist of the vocal songs from those albums, in shorter, more digestible format.

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Elegant Simplicity

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Soft Machine
(UK) / February 12, 2006

Latest news:

From Leonardo Pavcovic:
"Elton Dean, my long time friend, current member of Soft Machine / The Soft Machine Legacy and Soft Bounds, one of the greatest sax player ever, an undisputed legend of the British jazz scene and member of the seminal experimental jazz-rock innovators Soft Machine during their golden period, died early this morning in London at the age of 61.
Leonardo Pavkovic, Moonjune Management

The new member of Soft Machine / The Soft Machine Legacy is Theo Travis (soprano & tenor saxophones, flute; electronics). Theo successfully played the recent Soft Machine Legacy gig in Milton Keyns, UK on February 1st, 2006. He is a well-established musician, known for his touring and recording association with Gong, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Steve Jensen, Richard Barbieri, Phil Miller, Daevid Allen, John Marshall, John Etheridge and many other musicians from the "Canterbury" scene.

Related Links:
MoonJune Global Media

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Saga
(Canada) / February 12, 2006

Forthcoming release:

The new Saga album, tentatively titled "Trust", should be released at the end of April, via Inside Out Records.

Related Links:
Saga
InsideOut Music

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Yoke Shire
(USA) / February 12, 2006

Forthcoming live shows (free):

Thursday 2/16/06
"The Grog"
Newburyport, MA
8:30 to 11:30 p.m.

Saturday 2/18/06
"The Tap Brewpub"
Haverhill, MA
8 p.m. to midnight

Thursday 2/23/06
"The Outlook at Nashoba Valley Ski Area"
Westford, MA
9 p.m. to midnight

Friday 2/24/06
"Fitzwilliams Irish Pub"
Burlington, MA
8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Related Links:
Yoke Shire

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RECORDING COMPANIES:

Mellow Records
(Italy) / February 12, 2006

Mellow is back in form, with a new staff, and is ready to rock!

New releases:

Apogee (Germany) - "Aftertaste"
Apogee's real debut album, for the first time on CD. Related to Versus X.

Yleclipse (Italy) - "Opus"
Second CD by the young Italian band.

Forthcoming releases (will be available for sale since March 2):

Altair (Spain) - "3"
The third album by the band, recorded live in Barcelona. The music is a classic keyboard-trio Symphonic Progressive, ELP and Triumvirat being the primary influences.

Philippe Grancher (France) - "3000 Miles Away"
The reissue of the LP which was originally released on the Pole label in 1977. The music is somewhere between Vangelis and Clearlight.

Fungus (Italy) - "Careful"
Debut. References: early Pink Floyd and Gong.

ABC Higher & Higher (International) - "A tribute to The Moody Blues"
The 3 CD box set with 210 minutes of music; more than 30 bands from all over the world...

Goad (Italy) - "The Wood, Dedicated to H.P. Lovecraft"
The band has existed since the '80s, and yet, it's the best kept secret of Italian Progressive. Points of reference: Procol Harum, Genesis, Pink Floyd.

Reissued and available again:

Locanda Delle Fate - "Live"
Celeste - "Second Plus"
Il Paese Dei Baloccho - Self-titled
La Maschera Di Cera - Self-titled
La Maschera Di Cera - "Il Grande Labirinto"
Overhead - "Zumanthum"

Lots of the other out-of-stock albums will be reissued next month, also.

Related Links:
Mellow Records

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Musea Records
(France) / February 12, 2006

New releases:

Parthenon (Venezuela) - "Mare Tenebris"
Naikaku - "(Japan) - "Shell"
Ice (Holland) - "The Saga"
Laurent Calomne (Belgium) - "Monstres Et Chimeres"

Related Links:
Musea Records

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Lizard Records
(Italy) / February 12, 2006

New releases:

Morkobot (Italy) - "Morkobot"
Flora (Italy) - "Flora"

Related Links:
Lizard Records

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Unicorn Records
(Canada) / February 12, 2006

Forthcoming release (March 6):

Karcius (Canada) - "Sphere"

Related Links:
Unicorn Records
Karcius

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