The Russian band Roz Vitalis (from Saint Petersburg) exists since 2001 as a studio project, since 2005 as an electroacoustic chamber ensemble and since 2008 as a full-blown rock-band. Style of Roz Vitalis music can be described as the "Unclassifiable Branch of Prog Rock", Avant Prog, Sympho Prog, Instumental. The "metaphysical" goals of Roz Vitalis are "per musica ad lucem" and "to overcome chaos by means of making music". The main influences are Gentle Giant, Univers Zero, King Crimson, Le Orme, Yes.
Field Rotation was founded in 2008 by the electronic music composer and producer Christoph Berg in Kiel, northern Germany. Experimenting with electronic and classical elements this project combines floating soundscapes with electroacoustic colours to create minimalistic soundtracks renouncing of visualisation, but interacting with the listeners emotions and feelings. As a violinist and pianist Christoph combines the synthetic sound engineering with natural sounds to communicate his short acoustic tales and impressions.
This new opus of Antoine Hervé-and three free electrons that revolve around him for a few decades already-successful the challenge of reconciling the electroacoustic sound material galaxy (Véronique Wilmart), their logic and their autonomous dynamics, with the metric neat and inspired that we know the famous jazz pianist and teacher. Irregular heartbeat segmentation gives a characteristic swaying to wand Philippe "Pipon" Garcia on drums. Finally virtuoso Jean-Charles Richard saxophones willingly joined the Antoine Hervé to get their impressionistic harmonies in the particle accelerator. An intentional and well balanced lyricism.
Crises was re-issued by Mercury Records on 2 September 2013, along with Five Miles Out. It is available as a single CD, a 2CD Deluxe Edition (album disc and live highlights CD), a vinyl LP and a 5 disc (3 CD and 2 DVD) boxed set. The boxed set also includes a 32-page hardback book. There will also be a 500 copy limited edition vinyl available on transparent green vinyl. The re-issue is also available as digital download in 16 and 24 bit 44.1 kHz FLAC/ALAC and 320kbit/s MP3 in two versions. The super-deluxe edition contains the tracks of discs one through three, the album contains the tracks of the single CD.
Five CD box set in DVD size metal tin with PVC jacket. VERY LIMITED EDITION - 100 COPIES. Mark Wastell has been organising larger formations of musicians, collectively known as THE SEEN, for over 10 years. Using predominantly improvised material with occasional instructions or themes distributed to individual musicians just prior to performance. No formation has ever been repeated, THE SEEN never stays static. Each disc contains an entire concert given by THE SEEN spanning the years 2005 to 2009.