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Artist News: F2 Music Signs Solstice; Ezra Update

Posted on Friday, March 30 @ 05:00:41 UTC by nightowl

We are extremely pleased to announce the signing of Solstice to F2 Music. A personal favourite of mine since the very early 80's, Solstice were part of a thriving Prog scene in the UK, alongside Marillion, Pallas, IQ, Pendragon & Twelfth Night, bringing strong folk influences into their melodic progressive rock sound. Superb electric violin and guitar was the centre piece of this excellent band. And the great news is that Solstice will be playing live again later this year before going in to the studio to work on a NEW Solstice CD for 2008!

In the meantime we will be releasing 'definitive' versions of the band's three studio CD's - Silent Dance, New Life and Circles - with brand new artwork and booklets, and each with a bonus CD containing rare demos and special live tracks. The bonus discs will include all those previously released on the very hard to find Solstice compilation CD Pathways, plus even more! We will be sure to let you know when they are available!



Solstice is:

Andy Glass - guitar and vocals
Emma Brown - vocals
Jenny Newman - violin and vocals
Steve McDaniel - keyboards
Robin Phillips - bass
Pete Hemsley - drums

At the signing, Andy Glass said "we are delighted to be entering into this creative partnership and we are full of hope for the future." Excellent news indeed, and welcome back Solstice!

Also: Ezra are pleased to welcome Chris Jones (guitar) and Gareth Hill (keyboards) to Ezra. In their recent press release, the band stated "We have ditched the sequencer and replaced it with real people. Those of you who have followed us over the years will have seen various line-ups of the band, some with keyboards some with sequencer, but it's the first time we've had another guitarist in the band. There are plenty of guitar parts on the albums that we can now play live for the first time. This now makes Ezra a seven piece! Both have fitted into the band perfectly and played their first performance on 23/04/2007 supporting Peter Banks (ex Yes)."

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