Coleopterorum Catalo Gus 67

Following a brilliant outing in Firewind’s 2020 eponymous LP that was sadly hamstrung promotionally due to the lockdowns, six-string sorcerer Gus G. switches gears for more varied and abstract territory, culminating in a solid display of technical flair and melodic ingenuity within the instrumental medium…

Gus Dudgeon is rated as one of the greatest British producers of all time; his work is in millions of homes across the world.

There hasn’t been a popular dance without an accordion, nor a dance-hall without a waltz, since the end of the Great War. You wonder if the genre was ever “modern” at all, so timeless does it seem… Yet it had to be born at some time, and its parents were a motley crowd indeed! First of all came the people from Auvergne, who began to settle in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century: they brought their “folk” instrument with them, and the “musette” tradition, turning their cafes and restaurants into dance-halls with an accordion band. Later, after 1870, it was the turn of the Italians, who crossed the Alps with an instrument of German origin, which they quickly adopted and began to manufacture themselves: the accordion. Then a third stream from Belgium and the North arrived in Paris to work in the factories, and, later still, the wandering gypsy communities of eastern Europe added their guitars to the sound of the accordion.

Ghosts of the Earth is ostensibly an album from the electronic and dance worlds but where the underlying influences are Jazz, Progressive Rock and World Tribal music. The title derives from the idea that no matter how much our western mono-culture runs rampant over the globe, trampling everything before it in it’s technological magnificence, many places and cultures still have and still maintain their own voice and their own identity. The first track We Advance Masked sets the theme, with the refrain that we're moving "backwards into the future". The album was primarily recorded at Till’s base in ‘Bali- (The ‘Island of the Gods’ ) and features some legendary guest musicians: Steve HIllage on guitars (from psychedelic prog rock pioneers ‘Gong and more recently System7 and Mirror System)…

Firewind / Ozzy Osbourne guitarist GUS G. returns with a fantastic second solo album! Fans of Slash, Halestorm & Avenged Sevenfold will love this! Features vocals by Jacob Bunton (Adler, Lynam), Mats Leven (Candlemass, ex Yngwie Malmsteen), Jeff Scott Soto (Trans-Siberian Orchesta, ex Journey) and Elize Ryd (Amaranthe), as well as Marty O Brien (Lita Ford) on bass and Jo Nunez (Firewind) on drums Recorded by Jay Ruston (Stone Sour, Anthrax, Steel Panther) and mixed by Mike Fraser (Aerosmith, Metallica, AC/DC).