Markus Gabriel Moral Progress

Nectar Meditation is the debut collaboration from Steve Roach (synths) and Serena Gabriel (harmonium, voice, temple bells). The focus of their work together is to provide a potent, immersive and transcendent experience through the power of sound. This intention is activated through the combination of acoustic instrumentation of ancient origins with a vast array of vintage and current analog synthesizers, creating a compelling new hybrid of archaic and contemporary sacred space music.

It took Hanspeter Hess (The Healing Road), Chris Grundmann (Cynity) and Markus Roth (Marquette, Horizontal Ascension) a.k.a. Force Of Progress only 4 years and 2 albums to establish themselves as cream of the crop of german "Technical Orientated Instrumental Prog". And since fun at work often transfroms into productivity, they already finished another collection of technical complex, yet melodic songs, assembled in the new album Redesign. Beside Dennis Degen and Sebastian Schleicher, who took over drums, bass and guitars respectively, FOP engaged a whole array of guest guitarists to provide solos on each of the five album tracks, resulting in a highly entertaining "competition" of high end musicians. LTE3 may feature more notes, but in terms of catchy tunes, Redesign rivals the very best in this section of progressive rock.

Markus started with electronic music in 1993. Starting to deejay with friends at a youth club and illegal parties in Leipzig, he went on spinning techno records till 1997. After a three-year-detour over hip hop - Markus was a DJ of local sound crews - he eventually came back to 4/4 rhythms…