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CD/DVD Releases: Magna Carta Gets In Touch With Its Proggy Side

Posted on Saturday, October 23 @ 19:00:00 UTC by nightowl

Magna Carta Records Is Getting Back To Basics With Plans For New Prog Releases In 2011

Magna Carta is planning to release strictly Progressive albums in 2011 with records similar to Liquid Tension Experiment, Dream Theater, YES, Genesis and all your favorite Prog bands. Magna Carta wants to get their fans involved and have created an all new Magna Carta Facebook Fan Page where fans can have an open dialogue with the label. Fans will be encouraged to share their ideas about new Magna Carta artists, tours, special releases, promotions and more.

The thing that has always made Magna Carta a great label is the fact that fans of Prog could trust any new release on the label was sure to be great. Releases from Liquid Tension Experiment, Ozric Tentacles, Kansas, Magellan, Bozzio Levin Stevens, Jordan Rudess, Mike Portnoy, James LaBrie and many more helped establish Magna Carta as the premier record label for Progressive acts. In 2011 Prog will once again find its home in Magna Carta Records.

The first release helping Magna Carta get back to basics is K2?s Black Garden, which belongs in any Prog-head's collection. The album features skillful instrumentation, haunting vocals and a rich lyrical backdrop that tells the story of ancient Oceania. Black Garden describes the epic journey of the ancient Polynesians sailing over a third of our world before settling the islands of the South Pacific. And they did it more than 2000 years before Columbus sailed.

K2 features Ken Jaquess on bass, Josh Gleason on vocals, Karl Johnson on guitar, Ryo Okumoto [Spocks Beard] on keys, and Doug Sanborn on Drums. Jaquess took on the challenge of writing this ancient tale after visiting the South Pacific and Hawaii and being inspired by the islands? beauty and history. He was fascinated by the story of how man first came to inhabit the islands so dense with splendor and seemingly cut off from the known world.

The early explorers had only small boats to cross the ocean?s vast emptiness drenched in molten sunlight during the day and veiled in complete darkness by night with only the stars and moon to guide them. The Polynesians travelled across the great expanse of the Pacific Ocean from the Asian mainland to find the mystic islands looming on their horizon after months of confinement on their small vessels.

K2 realizes this imagery in both their lyrical and musical approach to this album. K2 captures the essence of these travelers? amazing journey where the abundant natural majesty found on the islands was only matched by the danger they faced every day both on land and sea.

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