Year : 2024
Style : Progressive Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 155 mb
Bio
Neal Morse (born August 2, 1960) is an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and progressive rock composer based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1995, he formed the progressive rock band Spock's Beard with his brother Alan and released an album which was moderately successful. In 1999, he joined former Dream Theater co-founder Mike Portnoy, Flower Kings' Roine Stolt and Marillion's Pete Trewavas to form the supergroup Transatlantic.[1] In 2003, he released a solo album Testimony. In 2004, Morse wrote and recorded a new concept album featuring Portnoy and Randy George. In early 2007, Morse released a Christian progressive rock album based on the life of the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, entitled Sola Scriptura. In September 2012, he released a solo studio album, Momentum, as well as Flying Colors with the newly formed band.
Album:
The new album by Neal Morse & The Resonance – entitled No Hill For A Climber from a resonant line in Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead – has its roots at the end of 2023, as Morse explains: “I started thinking about what I was going to do in 2024, and my wife suggested that I should think about doing something with the amazingly talented younger guys that we have here locally – like Chris Riley, Andre Madatian and Philip Martin. I knew just how good they were from playing with them at our Christmas concerts and other events.”One of the benefits – Morse soon realised – of working with local young talent was a sense of newness and immediacy: “These guys brought a lot to the table. There is a freshness that comes from working with new and younger people. There are some musical ideas they brought that would NEVER have occurred to me: there is lots of new stuff here.”Nevertheless, faithful to any Neal Morse prog album, No Hill For A Climber features two long epics (the 28 minute No Hill For A Climber and Eternity In Your Eyes, which clocks in at 22 minutes) as well as three shorter songs.Indeed, for all the above reasons, Morse believes that the whole album is quite unique: “If I was going to compare its structure to an album I've done in the past, it might be along the lines of a Bridge Across Forever or Spock's Beard’s V; it’s not that it sounds at all like those albums, it’s just structurally similar. It has voices and playing styles and soundscapes that many people will have never heard before! Everyone you work with changes you a little bit, so even I sound a little different on this one, but I hope that everyone will love it!”
Line-Up:
Neal Morse - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
+ guests:
Chris Riley - Keyboards, Guitars, Bass, Lead Vocals
Andre Madatian - Guitars and Orchestration
Johnny Bisaha - Lead Vocals
Philip Martin - Drums on tracks 2, 3, 4 & 5
Joe Ganzelli - Drums on tracks 1, 2 & 5
Chris Carmichael - Violin, Viola, Cello
Amy Pippin and Julie Harrison - Background Vocals
Chris West - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Desmond Ng - Trombone and Euphonium
Tracklist:
01. Eternity In Your Eyes
I : Prelude To Eternity (Instrumental)
II : I See The Sun
lll: Northern Lights
IV : Echoes Of Forever (Instrumental)
V : The Dream's Still Alive
Vl : Hammer And Nail
VIl : Daylight
02. Thief
03. All The Rage
04. Ever Interceding
05. No Hill For A Climber
I : The Mountain And The Valley (Instrumental)
II : A Hill So High
III : Burn It Down
IV : Love Is All
V : The Resonance
VI : The Mountaintop Beyond The Sky
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