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21.X+ Clive Nolan
21.X+ Willowglass
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21.X+ Esoteric Recordings
21.X+ Moonjune Records
21.X+ Progrock Records
21.X+ Nobler Agency


BANDS & PERFORMERS:

Focus
(Holland) / October 21, 2012

Forthcoming release:

Legendary progressive rock veterans Focus are set to release their new studio album “Focus X” on November 5 via Eastworld Recordings. The album features a full scale Roger Dean painting on its cover.

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Focus

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Tracer
(Australia) / October 21, 2012

Latest news:

Tracer announces new album and April 2013 UK tour. Following their rapturously received headline tour in October 2012, and recent Best New Band nomination at the 2012 Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, the Australian rock band Tracer returns to the UK for 4 concerts in April 2013. The tour will coincide with the follow-up to their debut album “Spaces In Between”.

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Tracer

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Clive Nolan
(UK) / October 21, 2012

Forthcoming release:

It has been an extremely busy time for Clive Nolan and musicians involved in his latest project ”Alchemy”. The first recordings have begun and the double CD album is due to be out in Spring 2013. This release will, however, be preceded by the world premiere of the “Alchemy” show at the famous Wyspianski Theatre in Katowice, Poland on February 22, 2013, where it will be recorded and released on a DVD by Metal Mind later next year.

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Metal Mind Records

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Willowglass
(UK) / October 21, 2012


RECORDING COMPANIES:

Metal Mind Records
(Poland) / October 23, 2012

Forthcoming releases:

  • Alastor – “Out of Anger”
  • Kruk – “Be 3”

    As recently announced, Alastor, the legendary thrash metal band from Poland return with a brand new album. “Out of Anger” will be released on November, 26th in Europe and January, 15th 2013 in USA (via MVD).

    Kruk, a Polish Hard Rock band, is almost ready to release their new album. Titled “Be 3”, it is set to be released on November, 26th in Europe and January, 15th 2013 in USA (via MVD).

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    Metal Mind Records

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    Esoteric Recordings
    (UK) / October 23, 2012

  • Life Signs – “Life Signs” (debut studio album by this new band)
  • Ken Hensley – “Love and Other Mysteries” (new album)
  • Tir Na Nog – “Tir Na Nog”
  • Tir Na Nog – “Strong in the Sun”
  • Tir Na Nog – “A Tear and a Smile”
  • Happy The Man – “Happy The Man”
  • Happy The Man – “Crafty Hands”
  • Hawkwind – “Palace Springs-2”
  • Kayak – “Royal bed Bouncer”
  • Tangerine Dream – “Atem”
  • Bill Nelson – “Northern Dream”
  • Todd Rundgren – “Live at the Warfield”

    The band Life Signs is made up of John Young (keyboards and lead vocals), Nick Beggs (bass, stick and backing vocals) and Frosty Beedle (drums). There are also several guest musicians on their debut album, such as Steve Hackett (Genesis, solo), Jakko Jakszyk (King Crimson Project) and Thijs Van Leer (Focus).

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    Esoteric Recordings

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    Moonjune Records
    (USA) / October 23, 2012

  • Doubt – “Mercy, Pity, Peace & Love”

    The internationally-acclaimed power trio Doubt returns with their highly-anticipated second full-length release for Moonjune Records. ”Mercy, Pity, Peace & Love” is a concept album deriving its inspiration as much from William Blake’s visionary aesthetics (the title is taken from the poet’s "Songs of Innocence and Experience") as from a diversity of 20th-century musical icons, ranging from Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Caravan and Tortoise, to Igor Stravinsky and Olivier Messiaen. Rather than a linear sequence describing one musical event, this record is a multilayered sonic adventure that has a lot going on. Alternately fiery and mellow, groovy and meditative, “Mercy, Pity, Peace & Love” is a marked departure from the free-rock and -jazz models of its predecessor (the much-praised “Never Pet a Burning Dog”) and is rooted in the trio’s most inspirational rock sources.

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    Moonjune Records

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    Progrock Records
    (USA) / October 23, 2012

  • Psychic For Radio – “Standing Way"
  • Presto Ballet – “Relic of the Modern World"
  • Nine Stones Close – “III"

    After over 5 years of work and a lot of false starts, Psychic For Radio’s album “Standing Way" is finally done. Shawn Gordon and Henning Pauly have put together a collection of very unique music with a lot of good friends and guest musicians coming to the party.

    "Relic of the Modern World" is the first real epic musical endeavor by Presto Ballet. It also sets up the next record, which will be a double concept album that will continue the story introduced on "Relic".

    Nine Stones Close delivers a lush and soulful third album.

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    Progrock Records

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    Nobler Agency
    (UK) / October 23, 2012

    Latest News:

    A major exhibition of vintage posters and memorabilia from David Bowie’s golden years (1969-1981), including on display for the first time in 30 years the original Heddon Street K. West sign that originally appeared on front cover of Bowie’s groundbreaking 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. The exhibition will take place at The Movie Poster Art Gallery, 1 Colville Place, London, W1T 2BG, from Saturday 17th November until Saturday 1st December. Admission is free. A special Private View will be held on Thursday 15th November from 6:30pm – 9pm. 40 years ago this year saw the release of an album and the meteoric rise of a performer who was to overturn the landscape of pop culture more thoroughly than any artist since the Beatles. David Bowie and ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’ landed like a bolt of lightning on the increasingly grim landscape of 70s Britain. As the centerpiece of the exhibition, the gallery is proud to unveil publically for the first time in 30 years the original Heddon Street K. West sign from the album’s front cover - probably the single most iconic cover location in British rock history, along with the Abbey Road zebra crossing. Rescued by a music industry veteran and finally restored, this is the original sign face seen on the album cover’s famous Brian Ward photograph, with Bowie standing underneath, a pose recreated in the original location by countless fans. From Ziggy up to the beginning of the 80s, Bowie embarked on an unprecedented, rollercoaster of creative renewal and reinvention. From London, to Los Angeles and Berlin, each musical chapter was accompanied by a startling visual transformation, a personification of the musical and cultural ideas firing Bowie’s restless creative changes expressed through his record sleeves and posters. As with his astute selection of musical collaborators, Bowie also had a knack of working with highly talented design collaborators; the exhibition highlights the world famous images created for Bowie, by Brian Duffy, Edward Bell, Masayoshi Sukita, Guy Peellaert, Steve Shapiro, and Eric Stephen Jacobs. In common with a surprising number of major artists from the 70s, original posters and promo material on Bowie are hard to come by, and the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to purchase classic vintage posters, and more, from his greatest period.

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    David Bowie

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