Agnieszka Swita Signs To Festival Music/F2 Music, Solo Debut Out
Date: Sunday, June 15 @ 15:00:00 UTC
Topic: Band News (tours, comings/goings, etc)


Festival Music/F2 Music are proud to announce the signing of Agnieszka Swita to the label, and the release of her excellent debut solo album Sleepless, which was released 09 June 2014.

Agnieszka is best known for her work with Clive Nolan on the Caamora, She, and Alchemy projects, and Clive plays keyboards on this album, and also wrote the title track. As well as Clive, the band also includes Andy Faulkner (Twelfth Night, Jump) on bass, Steve Harris (Ark, Paul Menel Band) on guitars and Dave Mackintosh (from Grammy nominated power metal band DragonForce) on drums.

This week [June 8] Dave Mackintosh announced that he is leaving DragonForce to pursue his first love of Progressive Rock - hear what a talented drummer he is on this release!

Tracks: 01. Something To Believe (4:18) / 02. Code Of Humans (Cosmo Part I) (4:48) / 03. Disclosure (Cosmo Part II) (4:43) / 04. Asylum (Cosmo Part III) (3:28) / 05. Borderland (6:21) / 06. Trapped (4:10) / 07. Scarlet (5:10) / 08. Back To Life (4:38) / 09. In Her Arms (4:35) / 10. Sleepless (7:55)

You can find out more about this release and hear two new tracks from the album ("Code Of Humans" and the heavier "Trapped") on YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGEfnfXtdXoiAaY4b4MOoYy3dbXMqraT

From the very first line, the tone of Sleepless is set. It is an hour of rock delight featuring soaring, melodic, and powerful vocals of Agnieszka and her writing talents.

Her lyrical content dissects the fine line between darkness and light, life and death, solitude and hope and combines them with crunchy guitars, ethereal orchestration and alluring vocals. The juxtaposition between the elaborate keyboard overtones and beautiful arrangement for strings hitting a brick wall of heavy guitars, driving drums and bombastic bass lines is the foundation in the overall construction of the album.

"Melodically sublime voyage into the hazy world between symphonic prog rock and metal, Agnieszka’s solo album Sleepless is a powerful statement of intent" (Dom Lawson, Prog Magazine)

The line up for Sleepless presents top British instrumentalists; award winning keyboard player and a progressive rock master Clive Nolan, Andy Faulkner (Twelfth Night, Jump) on bass, Steve Harris (Ark, Paul Menel Band) on guitars and Dave Mackintosh (from Grammy nominated power metal band DragonForce) on drums.

Agnieszka says: "I have poured my heart and soul into the creation of this album. Everything I experienced fuelled my desire to dig deep within myself and create the music that will tell stories both lyrically and musically. To listen to Sleepless is to know the essence of who I am. Whilst the album is my creation, each musician was given free rein to contribute. Dave Mackintosh (drums) listened to my songs and played them how he heard them, so his creativity and power metal soul has poured into my music. It was an incredibly inspiring collaboration."

Produced by Clive Nolan. Mixed and mastered by Karl Groom. Recorded and mastered at Thin Ice Studios, home for British progressive rock icons Pendragon and Arena. Engineered by Karl Groom, Clive Nolan, Agnieszka Swita.

[Source: Festival Music/F2 Music]







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