Eloy Ameling

This is not an official, professionally filmed DVD, rather a lovingly put together keepsake created in a limited number for absolute Eloy fans…

Ameling, one of the world's most beloved recitalists is captured here in a 5 CD collection offering some of her most beautiful recordings of song. While we are used to her perfection in songs of Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Faure and Hahn, an added joy is her "pop" side, tackling - without a whiff of pretension, Porter, Kern, Gershwin, Ellington, et al. What an absolute joy it is listening to this amazing artist sing these songs with an almost uncanny natural ease. There is no resorting to a "pop" voice and yet most of these pop standards songs sound as though they could have been written for her. Clean attacks, sometimes a bit of the pop technique of hanging on to a consonant longer than a classical artist normally would shows an appreciation and understanding of the style. Still, there is never once a compromise of her vocal beauty.

In 1978, Eloy released the double Live (squeezed onto one CD), at a time when most progressive bands were either going commercial or altogether disbanding. Eloy however were at the peak of their popularity in their homeland of Germany and most of their albums from 1976 to 1982 would sell over 200,000 copies. Rightly considered the German Pink Floyd, the band was famous for elaborate stage shows featuring copious laser lights, dry ice machines and plentiful pyrotechnics.
Live compiles some of the band's best loved compositions to date and very often, the live versions outshine their studio counterparts…

After more than thirty years in the business of making quality music, EMI has finally released the definitive compilation of Eloy. It is mind boggling how underrated this band is, yet how original and creative they had been since their first 'proper' release for EMI's label 'Harvest' in 1973, an album called 'Inside'. They have been unfairly compared to Pink Floyd, Hawkwind and even Jethro Tull, (because they used the flute on couple of tracks in Inside, and because Future City has a bluesy feel!) which is quite ridiculous, and shows how little the music press and industry understands and appreciates progressive rock. When you listen to Eloy properly you will soon discover an original and total creative music world that is compared to none.

In 1978, Eloy released the double Live (squeezed onto one CD), at a time when most progressive bands were either going commercial or altogether disbanding. Eloy however were at the peak of their popularity in their homeland of Germany and most of their albums from 1976 to 1982 would sell over 200,000 copies. Rightly considered the German Pink Floyd, the band was famous for elaborate stage shows featuring copious laser lights, dry ice machines and plentiful pyrotechnics.
Live compiles some of the band's best loved compositions to date and very often, the live versions outshine their studio counterparts…

"Echoes from the Past" is the 20th studio album of the most successful German art & progressive rock band Eloy. It is also the 3rd album of a unique trilogy designed by band mastermind Frank Bornemann as a rock opera about the life and fate of the French national heroine and saint Joan of Arc. Sensitive & atmospheric passages alternate with powerful, dramaturgically shaped sound waves that will remind Eloy fans of earlier works.

Cyberspace is the first work by Eloy Fritsch released by the Brazilian label Rock Symphony. Literally overflowing with powerful electronic compositions; rich, melodic themes; and dynamic musical movements, the music and arrangements of this CD range from delicate, symphonic neo-classicism to high-powered rhythmic fanfares…

Mithology, the fifth release by Eloy Fritsch, deals with diverse myths of the world. So several cultures were visited, including those of Brazil, the Aztecs, the Incas, Assyria, Greek, Hindu, Egyptian, Nordic, Atlantis, the Romans, the Chinese, and so on. All compositions on the CD were based in his own interpretation of the characteristics of each mythological element chosen for this work…