Other: Two Side Moon/SLW To Handle UK Press For ProgRock Records
Two Side Moon/SLW Promotions are delighted to announce that we will handle all UK press promotions for Prog Rock Records. Prog Rock Records is one of the leading record labels in progressive rock and metal and was formed by label president Shawn Gordon in 2002. TSM/SLW Promotions will handle the latest releases from Prog Rock Records which are as follows:
Moongarden - Songs From The Lighthouse; The band is born at the beginning of the 90s, with a demo containing a few songs written and arranged by Cristiano Roversi and David Cremoni, which the Italian label Mellow Records soon after released as the first Moongarden album named Moonsadness. A few months later, Cris and David recorded with a different line up two covers for the first Italian tribute to Genesis.
The chance of working on a full length album came with the Brainstorm Of Emptyness sessions. This is the second official release under Mellow Records, but in many ways the first real Moongarden one. This CD has also seen the entrance of Massimiliano Sorrentini on drums and Ricki Tonco on vocals. Moreover, during this period, the band published a cover called "There Will Be Time" by Osanna for The 70s Italian Progressive tribute album. After that, Moongarden went through a long period of inactivity, due to several personal troubles, and it took more than 4 years before Cristiano decided to start working hard on new material, actually giving new life to the project. Luca Palleschi joined the band as the new official vocalist, and a few months later the new album was ready. The Gates Of Omega, third official release, represents so far the most complex and mature work produced by the band, and has obtained enthusiastic comments by both public and critics. Further to this last publication, Moongarden have finally set the basis for a more intense musical activity: a successful series of concerts and live performances around Europe, a new label, Galileo Records, and the fourth album Round Midnight ....... Max Sorrentini and Luca left the band in 2005 for human and artistic divergences .... after a year we finally find the new definite line up with the singer Simone Baldini Tosi (he was the singer of the first album Moonsadness) and the drummer Maurizio Di Tollo. The new album called Songs From The Lighthouse is finally ready, with the artwork of the great cover artist Ed Unitsky.... and the story goes on...
Press: 'To conclude, Songs From The Lighthouse is certainly a crucial step in the career of the Italian quintet. It is a strongly suggested release, carefully and detailed crafted in every single aspect that every prog-rocker should purchase.' - Metalperspective.com
Expedition Delta - Expedition Delta; Expedition Delta is a project from Srdjan Brankovic, one of the founders of Alogia, the biggest selling progmetal band in Serbia. After the huge success of their 2 albums and tours opening for Whitesnake, Apocalyptica, Savatage and Paul Di Anno, Srdjan decided to do a no holds barred progrock/metal album in English, assembling some of the worlds finest players and Expedition Delta is the result.
Press: 'From start to finish, this is one enjoyable ride, and I'm hoping that Srdjan Brankovic has a lot more like this up his sleeve. If you like progressive rock with a metal edge and loaded to the hilt with catchy hooks, then you need to get a hold of Expedition Delta pronto' - Sea Of Tranquility.com
Ghost Circus - Across The Line; A chance meeting of artists in 2004 on an internet message board brought together Ronald Wahle of the Netherlands with Chris Brown of Tennessee. What spawned from that meeting is the highly evolved progressive rock duo, Ghost Circus. Two years of collaboration culminated with the duo's first album in 2006, Cycles, and now in 2008 with Across The Line.
Ronald Wahle is a self taught drummer, keyboard player and guitarist who has worked primarily in local bands and film/promo scores. With influences such as Marillion, Porcupine Tree, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Tears for Fears, and The Fixx, Ronald?s linear orchestral flow and electric melodies are featured throughout alongside his guitar melodies and powerful percussion.
Chris Brown also taught himself to play guitar, bass, and keyboards and honed his vocal skills to perform on Cycles and now on Across The Line. He has primarily focused on his solo acoustic guitar career and released a solo album in 2003 along with a side project album, Random Access Generator, also in 2003. Chris pulls his influences from current and classic eras of Progressive music, the "Art Pop" and Alternative styles of the 80?s, and a solid dose of Metal, which combines a harder edge and structure to the fluid melodies of his counterpart.
Together, Ronald Wahle and Chris Brown bring an eclectic approach to progressive rock that is unique yet comforting to all of those who love music.
Press: 'Blending a heaviness with a smattering of AOR, Ghost Circus has once again created a very unique collection of songs.' - Progbase.com
Simon Says - Tardigrade; Stockholm in the early 90's was throbbing with prog. Numerous bands played small clubs and pubs in Sweden's capital. Most attention was paid to Anekdoten, ?nglagaard and Landberk.
On the fringes of this underground movement there was a less known band called Egg. An unorthodox band: while sounding as harsh and brutal as both VdGG and Crimson, they still struggled to make their melodies as catchy as those of pop tune.
Bass player of Egg at the time was Stefan Renstr?m, who upon joining them immediately had sensed the band's potential. But when Stefan wanted to lead the band in a certain direction, a lot of friction surfaced. Furthermore, his personal life collapsed and Stefan, unhappily, left both the band and Stockholm to form a new outfit.
Around Christmas '93 he made contact with a then very young Daniel F?ldt, singer of experimental band Leifs Hyvel. Things were settled: Simon Says was to be a project with the two of them as the nucleus.
In March '94 Stefan and producer Kenneth Magnusson started planning Simon Says' first album. In August 1995 Ceinwen was released, to mostly positive reviews. A live act was put together and Simon Says looked like they were growing into a band. After a few gigs, however, the project was put on ice. Stefan wasn't happy with the way Simon Says sounded and when both he and Daniel moved they suddenly were too far away from each other to be able to continue anyhow. Daniel started studying philosophy, then drifted off to India and the Middle East for two long periods. Meanwhile, Stefan focused on his role as bass player in his other band, Wagnerian space rockers The Moor, with whom he cut Flux in 1996.
So, while Daniel was studying sitar in India, Stefan and The Moor toured Europe with legendary singer/flute and sax player Nik Turner of Hawkwind. Then, in 2001, Stefan felt he had somehow written a new Simon Says album. Guitarist Jonas Hallberg, Stefan's stand-in on bass in The Moor, was recruited, as well as Mattias Jarlhed (from Valinor's Tree) who recorded the drum parts only four days after having been invited to join.
After four weeks Paradise Square was finished and a deal with Galileo Records was struck. The album was released in July 2002 and was met by everything between very good and rave reviews. But after eight months of sporadic rehearsals the band was shelved. Again.
Stefan refused to give Simon Says up, though. In spite of a series of domestic problems culminating in a tragic divorce he dedicated every spare second to write and record new music. And so, the band has in the last years contributed to a series of Musea samplers while all the time working on the main project: the one about survival. Tardigrade.
Press: '"Brother Where You Bound?" is perhaps one of the best progressive songs for 2008. Every characteristic of their sound and every mood of Tardigrade blend into each other in the most harmonious way. This 26 minutes opus is destined to be unforgettable.' - Metalperspective.com
Soul Secret - Flowing Portraits; Soul Secret begin in August 2004 thanks to Lucio Grilli (bass), Antonio Mocerino (drums) and Antonio Vittozzi (guitars). One year later the band recorded a home-made demo called Never Care About Tomorrow, containing a first rough version of "Inner War" and "Eternal Lights."
Over the next year there were various personnel changes until the band reached a balance with the addition of Luca Di Gennaro (keyboards) and Michele Serpico (vocals). They started writing some original ideas and performing them in various live contests and co-headliner shows. While the interest for the band was growing on and on, the five of them started to think about recording their songs, which ultimately resulted in being signed by the US label, Progrock Records.
Press: 'Soul Secret rides the Images And Words-era Dream Theater formula throughout Flowing Portraits, but it's so well done and enjoyable you can easily overlook it. The instrumentation is stellar, the vocals very strong, the melodies memorable, and arrangements well put together. It all adds up to a winner for Soul Secret, and the arrival of a new force on the progressive metal scene.' seaoftranquililty.com
Invisigoth - Narcotica; Forged by a shared interest in esoteric philosophy, the philosophy of hedonism in antiquity, and a lust for musical experimentation - especially through composition and chemistry; Cage and Viggo Domino became bonded over clinical trials involving the psychotropics ayahuasca and salvia conducted in their own studio/laboratory. After results indicating the rather solipsistic notion that neither of them truly exists, the two psychic pioneers retreated to their fall back position - whereby pleasure in the sensory world became their prime directive. Music (and a good deal of libation) became the central players in this existential resignation. With new inspirations literally in hand, Cage and Viggo decided to construct a musical statement with authentic, albeit primal, vision and purpose. Invisigoth became that animation incarnate. A concept for an album was culled from their tormented experiences and research. Entitled, Alcoholocaust, the record explores the trials and tribulations of both protagonists in their search, and eventual discovery, of their artistic, animal, and rather Roman, natures. Recorded in 2006, the record reveals, at the same time, a prodigious and profound respect and iconoclasm for the music that it post-dates. Some call it "progressive metal" or "art rock," yet Invisigoth transcends these attempted reductions and speaks for itself ? all the while echoing the revelation of the antique and exotic that is the hallmark of their singular, yet universal, expression.
Press: 'To quote The Grateful Dead, "? what a strange trip it has been." And that is the feeling that is left after hearing this. With that having been said, in it's own way; there are parts of this that are strangely appealing. Perhaps not a CD for everybody's taste, but for lovers of the strange, unusual, challenging, unexpected and unconventional this may be just what you are looking for.' - Hardrockhaven.net
