Esgi Riverside Insights

Hello Everyone, In case you missed it - “Story of My Dream” serves as opening track of the first of two special digital “Best of” compilations to be released on November 19th, 2021 in celebration of our Anniversary and to showcase the comprehensive and rich back-catalogue from across the last two decades of RIVERSIDE’s activity. Featuring all ESPECIALLY REMASTERED - by Magda and Robert Srzedniccy (Serakos Studio) - material and some deep cuts, “Riverside 20 - Vol.1, The Shorts” will include 19 tracks and “Riverside 20 - Vol.2, The Longs” will include 14 songs.

Drawn together by a shared love of heavy metal and progressive rock, Riverside emerged in the early 2000s in Warsaw, Poland. Founded by mutual friends who intended to use their backgrounds in metal to explore new territory in prog rock along the lines of Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, and Tool, the quartet began creating spacious and experimental music with a metal edge on their 2003 debut, Out of Myself. They hit their stride in the late 2000s, topping the Polish charts in 2009 with their fourth full-length outing, Anno Domini High Definition. The untimely death of guitarist Piotr Grudziński in 2016 put the band's future in jeopardy, but they reconvened in 2018 as a trio for the studio LP Wasteland…

Drawn together by a shared love of heavy metal and progressive rock, Riverside emerged in the early 2000s in Warsaw, Poland. Founded by mutual friends who intended to use their backgrounds in metal to explore new territory in prog rock along the lines of Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, and Tool, the quartet began creating spacious and experimental music with a metal edge on their 2003 debut, Out of Myself. They hit their stride in the late 2000s, topping the Polish charts in 2009 with their fourth full-length outing, Anno Domini High Definition. The untimely death of guitarist Piotr Grudziński in 2016 put the band's future in jeopardy, but they reconvened in 2018 as a trio for the studio LP Wasteland.

Bobby Timmons - Sweet And Soulful Sounds + Born To Be Blue (1962-1963) {2012 Riverside Remaster, Jazzplus Series}
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Jazz / Hard Bop / Soul Jazz / Piano

Pure piano magic from Bobby Timmons – a pair of great albums from his years at Riverside Records! First up is Sweet & Soulful Sounds – a wonderful mellow trio session from Bobby – done with a spare, relaxed approach that's a nice contrast to the recordings he was making for Prestige around the same time – but which still has the same deep, soulful approach to the piano that makes those records so great! Half a dozen trio numbers with Sam Jones and Roy McCurdy are rounded out with two piano solos, "God Bless The Child" and "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" – both of which present Bobby in an especially introspective mode, one you don't hear that often on record!

Riverside are one of the most universally acclaimed bands on this site, with all four of their album releases to date comfortably achieving in excess of 4 stars. It is perhaps surprising then that this is the band's first DVD release, and thus the first chance most of us have had to witness them live…

Riverside’s long-awaited 2023 release ID.Entity kicks off Riverside's third decade in a remarkable way. Produced by Mariusz Duda, the album extends and expands Riverside’s characteristic sound with a dynamic and revamped approach to the band’s classic formula.
What comes across on ID.Entity is the sheer quality of the musicianship, with every player at the top of his game. Anyone wondering whether Riverside could still cut it without Piotr Grudzinski can be assured they still have the chops they’ve always had, they’re still atmospheric progmeisters and their music still has its discernible edge.