Frontiers Records in conjunction with Muse Wrapped Records, is proud to introduce XCARNATION, a studio project masterminded by CENK EROGLU, a Turkish guitarist who released his first solo album in the year 1991. From then on, he produced many albums in Turkey and became renowned as a composer, guitarist, arranger and producer.
After his second solo album was released in the year 1996, he began to work on a new project which was aimed at an integration of heavy rock and electronic sounds into a synthesis of Eastern and Western music. The materialization of this new sound covered a long period of time during which he met first Pat Mastellotto (Mr. Mister and King Crimson) and then Kip Winger (Winger) - who - together with Rod Morgenstein (WINGER, DIXIE DREGS), Reb Beach (WINGER, DOKKEN, WHITESNAKE) and many ethnic instrument players - made their artistic contributions to the songs in the Xcarnation album.
The resulting album entitled "Grounded" is a shockingly good musical experience blending such diverse influences in nothing else than a milestone in modern progressive rock music!
Kip Winger & Cenk Eroglu Pat Mastellotto & Cenk Eroglu
"Grounded" features all songs written, sung, arranged and engineered by Cenk Eroglu, is ready to meet the world market on Frontiers Records on September 19th 2005. US release shall be handled via Muse Wrapped Records at the same time.
The album final tracklisting includes the following songs: Personal Antichrist; Everlasting (click to hear an Mp3 sample); Without You; Desperately Sad; Reason To Believe; Lucky Day; Take A Deep Breath; Willing To Wait; Coma White; Pictures.
More info available on www.xcarnation.com - www.frontiers.it - www.muse-wrapped.com
ALLEN / LANDE
Frontiers Records are pleased to present the original art painted by the legendary designer Rodney Matthews (Asia, Magnum, Diamond Head, Praying Mantis etc.) for the upcoming and highly anticipated studio project between Symphony X 's RUSSELL ALLEN and Masterplan's JORN LANDE.
We are also pleased to present a new exclusive sample track in mp3: Hunter's Night
The album will be unleashed on the world markets on September 19th 2004. Limited amounts of a FREE mini cd will be made available to distributors and specialist stores. The mini cd shall include the full song "Another Battle" and 1.30 minutes excerpts from "Wish For A Miracle", "My Own Way" and "The Forgotten Ones". Also featured on such promo cd are songs from the upcoming PLACE VENDOME album featuring ex HELLOWEEN singer Michael Kiske: "Cross The Line" (full track) and excerpts from "I Will be Gone", "Right Here" and "I Will Be Waiting".
Let the countdown begin !
WETTON / DOWNES
Geoffrey Downes and John Wetton have already started the work for a second ICON album. The recording and release are planned for 2006 but in the meanwhile the two british artists will be busy promoting the upcoming EP "Heat of the Moment 05" to be released in Europe on Frontiers Records on August 29th and are planning a European tour during November and December 2005.
ROYAL HUNT
Hot on the heels of the successful European release on June 6th of the new album "Paper Blood" keyboard player and songwriter Andre Andersen gives us and insightful look into the songs included on the record:
Break Your Chains is about freedom of choice - to live your life or pretend you're living it, to dare to actually do things instead of dreaming of them, to take that first step which may change your life and leave all your fears behind. Orchestral intro runs into a W-kick ride... quite an energetic opener.
Not My Kind is dedicated to a person I can't stand. We all know that kind - pretending to be your friend, hanging around you all the time and winning your trust until that one day - and you're finding yourself stabbed in the back in cold blood. I should know, I'm in the music business. Dark, heavy riffing with some huge harmonies on top.
Memory Lane is like a nostalgic trip, when you're looking at some old pictures while sitting in front of a fireplace with a bottle of wine... remembering faces and places…
Never Give Up was the first one I wrote for this album. It's about that rather uncertain situation John and I was in at the time - half of the band was gone, the tour ´s got cancelled and we weren't sure if we could pull it off again. But than that "second breath" kicked in - we became like : "Screw it, this is not putting us down!". And here we are, a year later. This is a typical RH song - uptempo, a lot of mood swings. John's amazing here - the highs, the lows... it's all there.
Seven Days is a sarcastic look/comment on religion and the exploration of it. G-D creates The World in seven days, promises those seven signs before he'll take it away again etc... And than where's a TV preacher giving you Paradise for a buck, another "Men of Some-Other G-D" gives you the same for blowing somebody up, and yet another one will give you Paradise in heaven for living in Hell on earth... The song goes from up-close and relaxed to the full tilt and everything in between. Marcus is great on this one, very articulated.
SK983 - Well, I was on my way to Japan (on a SAS flight SK 983) to do a couple of keyboard clinics and I wanted to play something new besides all that stuff that I usually play on those events. So I basically wrote the whole thing on a napkin during that 11 hours flight! Thanks to stewardess Patricia for bringing me all that Jack Daniels as well as.....well, inspiration.
Kiss Of Faith - unfortunate kid, growing up in a dysfunctional family, wrong side of town, no means, no future - but hopes. Some of those kids can get lucky and break away from it to a better life, but they need a lot of will, a lot of faith. I gave this one a bit of the "country color" to make it more storyteller-like.
Paper Blood is about what's our life become - greed's running the show, it's in our veins. All and everybody's measured in "gold"... and we're getting more and more used to it. People are killing people to sell their hearts or lungs - I mean, how more creepy can it get? Musically more on the "traditional metal" side, but with a twist.
Season´s Change - "aftershocks" after a long relationship is over. You walk around, trying to figure out what went wrong but it just did - and where's no way to undo it. John sounds unreal on this ballad.
Twice Around The World has a lot of variety - rhythm, key, sound, feel... It's almost like traveling around the world - every place has its "vibe"... But after recording this song (which is quite long) I felt like I did it... well, twice. My favorite solo from Marcus on this one.