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CD/DVD Releases: Neal Morse Band To Release New Album, Tour Europe

Posted on Friday, December 26 @ 21:00:00 UTC by nightowl

The Neal Morse Band are extremely pleased to announce the release of their new album The Grand Experiment for the 16th February 2015 as well as a European tour for March 2015. For the first time ever, prog icon Neal Morse came into a recording session with his long-time friend and collaborator Mike Portnoy, Randy George, Bill Hubauer and Eric Gillette... with NOTHING! He had no prepared material at all. Neal comments: "I wanted to see what it would be like to create freely in the room with no preconceived notions. It was quite a risk!"

On previous albums, like the Testimony album for example, Morse had the entire album written in advance. "I used to be rather paranoid about whether things would turn out in the short space of time we had available... so I would fill all the space in advance!" This album was totally different. "I made a lot of room for the other guys to create and express themselves and the result is outstanding! We wanted to experiment, do something a bit different, and see what everyone is capable of...we found out...in SPADES!" The results are obvious! This was a "grand experiment" that produced something far beyond anyone's expectations!

The main disc, containing 5 tracks, 2 long prog epics that are sure to be favorites for years to come, as well as 3 shorter songs including the catchy rocking title track "The Grand Experiment" is sure to blow the minds of all prog fans and appeal to anyone who loves hooky song writing with virtuoso performances from some of the best musicians in the world. The Grand Experiment was mixed by Rich Mouser.

The Grand Experiment will be available as: 2CD & DVD Special edition digipak featuring a bonus disc of unreleased studio and live tracks plus a 'Making Of' DVD; a 180g LP + 2CD featuring the full standard album on CD plus the bonus CD; and Standard edition jewel case CD.

The tracklisting for the main album is as follows: 1. Following The Call / 2. The Grand Experiment / 3. Waterfall / 4. Agenda / 5. Alive Again

The band will hit the road in Europe next year in support of the album, and the full list of dates can be found below. Swedish progressive-rockers Beardfish will support on all dates, playing music from their forthcoming new album +4626-COMFORTZONE' which is due out 12th January 2015.

Tourdates:

5/03/15 Z7, Pratteln, Switzerland
6/03/15 De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
7/03/15 Islington Assembly Hall, London
8/03/15 Spirit of 66, Verviers, Belgium
9/03/15 Divan du Monde, Paris, France
11/03/15 Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany
12/03/15 Alte Seilerei, Mannheim, Germany
13/03/15 Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
14/05/15 Matrix, Bochum, Germany

The Neal Morse Band is: Neal Morse: Vocals, Guitar and & Keyboards; Mike Portnoy: Drums; Randy George: Bass; Eric Gillette: Guitar and Vocals; Bill Hubauer: Keyboards and Vocals.

Beardfish, the Swedish progressive-rockers, will, as said, release +4626-COMFORTZONE the 12th of January 2015 in Europe. The first track to be taken from the album, "Hold On" can be heard here: prog.teamrock.com/Beardfish/HoldOn. The band had this to say about the track: "'Hold On' was one of the first songs that came along for +4626-COMFORTZONE and it sort of set the mood for the rest of the album with the rhythm and the intertwined guitar riffs and melodies. The lyrics deal with trying to hang on to something that is slipping out of grasp and not being in connection with your inner self, to the point that you don't recognize yourself in the mirror. A song that felt great right from the start and it still keeps getting better every time we play it live! Hope you'll like it!"

The full track-listing for Beardfish's album is as follows: 1. The One Inside Part 1 - Noise In The Background / 2. Hold On / 3. Comfort Zone / 4. Can You See Me Now / 5. King / 6. The One Inside Part 2 - My Companion Throughout Life / 7. Daughter Whore / 8. If We Must Be Apart (A Love Story Continued) / 9. Ode To The Rock'n'Roller / 10. The One Inside Part 3 - Relief.

[Source: InsideOut Music]

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