The More You Live, The More You Love

UNHEILIG Gipfelstürmer (UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL 0602537706129) In recent months, there was a lot to do. Less than a week after announcing Gipfelstürmer in September, Der Graf announced to stop after the upcoming tour with Unheilig. The book will be closed on September 10, 2016  with a grand farewell concert in Cologne. Besides the fact that he wants to spend more time with his family, the main drive has to be the lack of challenges. The Eurovision Song Contest earlier this year had to be the platform for a possible breakthrough in the non German speaking countries, but the German Eurovision audience threw a spanner in the works. Gipfelstürmer is the eighth and last musical work of Der Graf. The new songs partly follow a thematic approach, where the beautiful and rugged mountain world forms the framework of the tracks. Der Graf keeps improving and perfecting his style, without neglecting the emotional side of life. He used a welded writing break to wrap his images, thought...

BLUE MAMMOTH Blue Mammoth (MASQUERECORDS MRCD0911) Blue Mammoth is established in 2009 by Julian Quilodran (bass) and Andre Micheli (vocals, keyboards). They know eachother since 2003 and already have done several musical projects. Micheli, a graduated from the music education of the federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is responsible for most of the compositions on the debut album of Blue Mammoth. Besides Quilodran and Micheli the band excist of Thiago Meyer (drums) and Andre Lupac (guitar).  The band is influenced by progressive rock of the late seventies / early eighties, with major references to IQ, Eloy and Genesis. Metamorphosis and Who We Are sound like Eloy complete with the characteristic guitar parts and the vocals which reminds me of Frank Boremann. In Growin’ the synthesizer parts of Micheli sounds like Martin Orford at the time of Tales Of The Lush Attic and in Resurrection Day Micheli and Lupac duel eachother with solos. Another strong referenc...

COMEDY OF ERRORS Disobey (Own release COE001; distributed by ACH Media) Comedy Of Errors is a band which was active in the late eigthies progressive rock scene. Founded in Glasgow the first incarnation released three democassettes, One Mini-Album and a CD in their five years excistence. The CD contained the demo 24 Hours and the Mini-Album and was released on the disputed Ugum label. After various line-up changes their progressive rock style changes to mainstream hardrock. In the early nineties it seems the band disappered from the stage, and only last year the first signs of a recarnation are mentioned with a possible release of Disobey,their first proper CD. During all those years keyboardplayer Jim Johnson kept writing music and finally found Joe Cairney (vocals) and Mark Spalding (bass, guitar), both members of the first line-up, available to record the album together. Besides them Bruce Levick plays the drums, and Hew Montgomery (Abel Ganz) plays bass on The Student Prince Part 1....