Slow Electric

Slow Electric ist der Name des Projekts, das die britischen Musiker Tim Bowness und Peter Chilvers zusammen mit dem estonischen Jazz-Duo UMA, Robert Jürjendal und Aleksei Saks, für das Estonian Jazz Festival 2010 ins Leben gerufen haben.
Aus dem einmaligen Projekt ist 2011 ein Album entstanden, basierend auf den Live-Aufnahmen des Festivals.

Sänger Tim Bowness ist vor allem als ein Teil von No-Man bekannt geworden, dem Projekt, dass er über lange Zeit zusammen mit Steve Wilson (Porcupine Tree) betrieb.
Peter Chilvers kennt man als musikalischen Partner von Brian Eno, auch auf dessen hochgelobten letzten Album „Drums Between The Bells“ hat er Keyboards und Synthesizer beigesteuert.
UMA sind ein fester Bestandteil der estischen und europäischen Musikszene und stehen durch ihre Besetzung mit Gitarre und Trompete für einen gänzlich eigenen Klangentwurf.

Für das Album konnte außerdem Tony Levin an Bass und Chapman Stick gewonnen werden.
Levin ist King Crimson Mitglied und hat als Sideman schon mit unzähligen Legenden wie Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon oder John Lennon gearbeitet.

Gemischt wurde das Album in Zürich von Andi Pupato, der sonst als Perkussionist von Nik Bärtsch´s Ronin die Jazz-Welt begeistert.

Eine Menge renommierter Namen also, die Summe der Einzelteile wäre bei Slow Electric alleine schon sehr hoch. Trotzdem entsteht hier etwas neues, sehr homogenes: Ein Hybrid aus Ambient, Jazz, Electronic, Progressive und Pop mit Melodie, Groove und fantastischen Improvisationen.

Slow Electric

Rain Tree Crow

I haul you in a sea of silence

On the border line of truth
Hope and violence
I see no sun
I see no place I've loved
Depending on the signs to find the road

Blackwater
Take me with you
To the place that I have spoken
Come and lead me
Through the darkness
To the light that I long to see again

I walk with you
But sleep beside her
If summer came and went
It passed us over
I see her cry
I see the face I've loved
Depending on the blind to find the road

Blackwater
Take me with you
To the place that I have spoken
Come and lead me
Through the darkness
To the light that I long to see again


Blackwater
Take me with you
To the place that I have spoken
I am leaving
In the morning
For the land that I long to see again

Everlast

I was born by the river in a little tent
And just like the river I've been running ever since
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know, yes I know, a change gonna come, yes it will

It's too hard living and I'm afraid to die
'Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, yes it will

I go to the movie and I go downtown
Somebody keep telling me, "Don't hang around"
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, yes it will

Then I go and I see my bro'

 I ask, "Brother, won't you help me please"
But he winds up knockin' me
Back down on my knees

There were times that I thought I couldn't last for long
Now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know, yes I know, a change gonna come, yes it will

It's been a long, long time coming 

But I know a change gonna come, yes it will

It's been a long, long time coming 

But I know, yes I know, a change gonna come, yes it will

But I know, yes I know, a change gonna come, yes it will
I'm not afraid anymore..

ProFusion

“RewoToweR”, the second ProFusion studio album is available now to order online, in stores in February 2012.

A spiral of genres, tones and rhythms, melted and tangled together, builds an original message which deals with the musical flexibility and research of ProFusion.

"RewoToweR", the second album of ProFusion, is conceived as a path that guides the listener into a tower.
Each song reveals a new plan, a new step that allows you to reach the top.
There are many languages that lead the climbing: rock, metal, fusion, pop, acustic-tango. Each floor is a different dimension from the previous, but never isolated.
Just as you can look at the title letters in both directions, the tower is also an ascent and descent together, until it gets to be a maze.
The “RewoToweR” building is not like a “Babel of different languages” but the attempt to speak, through experimentation, a new and modern language.

ProFusion

Soniq Theater

Soniq Theater is a one-man band, presenting a mixture of progressive styles, mainly symphonic progressive rock with elements of metal, electronic and classical music, jazz, world music and traces of other styles.
The music is composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Alfred Mueller.

As it is a one-man-project, the music only exists on CDR's and is not planned to be played live.
Nevertheless Soniq Theater has a big audience and the music is played in about 50 radioshows in 15 countries and through webcast worldwide (until February 2004).
Soniq Theater is recommended to all open-minded progressive rock-fans and is appreciated as well by "normal people" with some musical education.

Biography of Alfred:
Born in 1962
Taking organ lessons since the age of 12
First synthesizer when he was 17
At the age of 18 he had his first band
Played in bands of different styles (see below history of bands and projects)
In 1992 he won the rock-contest HEADLINER in Germany with his band Rachel’s Birthday
In 1996 Rachel’s Birthday’s CD “an invitation to” was released
In 1998 he received the Award First Class from the Preston University for his compositions
1999 start of Soniq Theater

These days he has released his twelft album "Overnight Sensation".

All his musik is FREE to download from his website.

Soniq Theater

In A Nutshell

...if you find my tale
scratch in on the wall

I neversaw you praying

I will stop it all
and once you said by mail
nobody to call

I will go down
you don''t you can''t
step off your rails
hanging on the stage
among so skinny fellows
looking face to face

I ask no other's questions

dropping shade instead
I wish I digged down all crowns
 

and if you hang so long

find another home

depicted stone and strong

ready to stand all

and then you'll find your way, find your way

you've gone through trial
 

behind the board up doors

catch me by a hand

skies never been so close

fell to see you off

and then you'll find your way, find your way
I walk away

Ziv Ravits

Here is an art rock album by writer and composer Ziv Ravits, lead vocals and bass of "Louis", his 3rd album.

Recording and performing his own material for 10 years all around Israel: 1997 - "Syndrome"- Ziv's 1st project in Hebrew worked and performed mainly in Jerusalem, 2001 - "Short story"- recorded in a small town in the Israeli desert. 

With "Louis", Ziv introduces an album, and a stage show, that is a genre of its own.
It echoes the psychedelic, progressive and classic rock of the late 60's and early 70's, while offering a very up-to-date and unique sound and attitude.
Ziv also uses the benefit of cutting edge sound technology - creating a special mix that could turn Louis into a land mark for the music of the 21st century, and a real treat for the modern music consumer.

On the stage, 8 musicians are leading the audience into a deep musical experience While telling the story of Louis,who travels between time and forms - transcending linearity and continuity on his journey home. 
This live concert is the result of a unique reunion of talents around Ziv, Who invite us to join them for an unforgettable trip.

The story of "Louis":

The people of the city say they can't remember a night as cold as that night.
Louis - an old beggar - was sleeping on the verge of a doorway. He was quite used to it, but that night was extremely cold. The snow slowly covered him. Some good people tried to wake him up, but in vain. During that night, some residents of the higher floors of the surrounding buildings called the police to inform them of a man flying quite close to their windows, which were, as a matter of fact, quite high. The morning after, they found the imprint of his body in the fresh snow. Its an 18th century garden party on a shiny autumn day somewhere. Young Louis entertains the very honorable crowd. He plays the piano. He can't take his eyes off the youngest daughter of the court's lawyer, in her light green dress. He plays for her, and she notices. Being, by hobby, a collector of soul pieces, she calls for the magician to settle a deal: Louis gets to be alone with her at her family's winter house, and she gets a piece of his soul. The magician, naturally, gets one too. Louis remembers almost nothing of that night - only a promise not fulfilled, a subtle smell on his finger, a brick wall instead of a door and a loss too big to contain. He runs away from the house, and the forest seems to enclose him. Too frightened to look back, he runs all night - chased by his fear and confused by his anger, his mind unable to grasp what his heart fully knows. He is fast asleep in a clearing, just before the break of dawn. There is no one there to even try and wake him up. On a countryside road, a guy called Louis is walking to the bus stop. The year is 2008. He had just woken up in a clearing, and he can't remember how he got there. He just knows he feels empty and sad, as if something had been violently taken from him the night before. He knows not where to go, or even if he wants to go anywhere at all. The voices inside him kindle him with song. They sing him of his past. They sing him of his ancient losses. They plead him not to fall this time. A bit encouraged, Louis strays around - and finds a cave to shelter him from the rain. He stays there for a short while, and the short while turns into a long while, and then a longer one... When he steps out of the cave, it is summer again. A kind of hunger takes him to a nearby city, where he lingers for a while. He's never really a part of it, but happy enough to feel at home inside himself - a feeling he never knew before. In a city not far away, on the coldest night of the year, one guy with all his belongings in a small sack, feels a sudden need to look up to the sky. He could never explain how this human image he saw managed to fly so smoothly above the city's skyline. The only thing he knew for sure was that, in a strange way, it was a part of him.

 http://www.myspace.com/zivravits