New Eden

The majestic sounds of Eden are captured on this album called Return To Innocence. Beautiful, sensual, spiritually moving and packed with enough lush grooves and contemporary styles this music will appeal to fans of Enya, Sarah Brightman and Secret Garden. Created by the Trammell Starks, founder/creator/keyboardist of The Taliesin Orchestra. A musical group that specializes in remaking famous songs into orchestra-style music.

Following on from the success of Vienna, Ultravox cemented their position as a New Romantic phenomenon with their follow-up, 1981's Rage in Eden. The martial beats and political undertones of "The Thin Wall" single acted as a potent taster for the album, to be joined in the U.K. Top 20 by the even more powerful message of "The Voice." The latter song opened the album, but nothing that followed equaled its strength, its sequencing a flaw in an otherwise excellent set. That said, propulsive numbers like "We Stand Alone" and "I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)," the rebellious angst of "Accent on Youth," the exotic strains of "Stranger Within," and the haunting "Your Name Has Slipped My Mind Again" all contained their own power. And even if the instrumental "The Ascent" harkened back to "Vienna," it was obvious that with Eden, Ultravox was climbing to grand new heights.

It is 1960, Rock’n’Roll has just lost a couple of its protagonists during this and the previous year, the time of the great balladeers has just begun but soon will run out due to the new and exciting beat invasion. In US mainstream the tiki culture has reached a certain peak and is about to collapse but still goes strong and with it comes the so called “exotica” music, a crossover between smooth jazz and swing, Latin grooves, haunting melodies that are rooted in the folkloristic sounds from different parts of this world plus weird sound effects that often create a spooky jungle or dreamy island beach atmosphere.

Return to Eden - Live at the Roundhouse is the fourth live album by the British band Ultravox . The recordings were made on April 30, 2009 at The Roundhouse in London as part of the Return to Eden concert series , which in 2009 and 2010 led through Great Britain and other European countries. The tour marked the comeback of the commercially successful line-up Midge Ure , Billy Currie , Chris Cross and Warren Cann in the 1980s , after Currie had reactivated the band with changing members from 1992 to 1995.