GALAXY veröffentlicht Album mit 25 Jahren Verspätung
Die Niederländer GALAXY (1983-1997) haben ihr Debütalbum aufgenommen, aber es niemals abgemischt und veröffentlich, da sich ihre Lebenswege trennten, wie das in jungen Jahren passieren kann. 25 Jahre später haben sie die alten Tapes und Festplatten gefunden und das Album wiederbelebt.
27.05. GALAXY – "Runaway Men" (Shaded Moon Entertainment/Bertus)
18.03. GALAXY – "Talk to Me" – digital Single überall erhältlich
https://youtu.be/FwqNeyVwPbE
Die Band ist in heller Aufregung und freut sich, dass ihr Jungendprojekt nach einem viertel Jahrhundert doch veröffentlicht wird.
Das Album steht in bester Tradition der Spätneunziger, frühen 2000er Prog Rock Alben. Mit großen epischen Melodien und anspruchsvollen Arrangements ala Enchant, Spocks Beard, Marillion.
Bart Schwertmann – Bass Guitar & Vocals
(Kayak - Leadsinger)
Niels Lingbeek – Guitars & Vocals
(Engineer und Producer Mastersound Studios in Muntendam)
Ard Ofers – Keyboards
(Perfect Storm)
Nils Ofers – Drums
(Various bands)
RUNAWAY MEN: A lost but not forgoten album.
How does an album take 25 years to be released? In 1997, 4 guys in their mid-twenties, started recording their frst full blown album. Before that, several demo’s (the good old cassete tapes) and a mini-CD had goten positive reviews in the Dutch national press, and we had writen new material so we were confdent that this was going to be something good.
Having built a studio in the backyard of the Ofers family – stufed with all the equipment of The Mastersound Studio of René Houwen - we had plenty of time to get it right; maybe too much time? Because as time went by, John Lennon was right once again: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”.
The recordings were finished but the album was never mixed or released, and all band-members went their separate ways: Runaway Men in diferent directions: from Bart winning the Soundmixshow on Dutch television, to all 4 playing for longer or shorter periods of time in professional bands, Niels taking over and running the Mastersound Studios, and Nils building his own house stone by stone from the ground up.
All that remained were some rough mixes on CD-R, a couple of boxes full of ADAT tapes and hard drives in the atc, and friendship that never wanede 24 years and a bit later, the rough mixes got into the hands of David van Hartingsveldt via Bart.
The later had become (and still is) lead singer for the Dutch progrock legends Kayak in 2018 and David was curious to fnd out what he had done in the past. David immediately thought he heard something worthwhile in Galaxy and wanted to do something to prevent the album from disappearing into oblivion.
But where were the actual recordings?
Niels cleaned out his atc and found out he had to visit all former establishments of the Mastersound Studios to go through the entire Mastersound archive to rescue every last track of the Galaxy-recordings. At one moment we got really worried, but Hallelujah! Niels came through and with united forces we brought Runaway Men to life (again).
Time nor efort was spared in the process of bringing you our musical child afer 25 years of pregnancy. We are happy and delighted to hold this tangible proof of our existence in our hands and hearts so many years later.
We hope you enjoy it!
Tracklist
01. Answers
02. Look Into My Eyes
03. Never The Same
04. In Her Head
05. Lady Of Fire
06. Talk To Me
07. Gallery Play
08. Runaway Man
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