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For Minor Giant it all started in 2010, when a 16-year old boy named Rindert Lammers started working on his own instrumental compositions and decided to put them as a demo on the soundcloud page. The following year Rindert decided to search for collaborators in order to form a new band and drummer Roy Post was the first to jump onboard. The next musicians to join were PBII's bassist Harry den Hartog, Jordi Repkes on guitar and vocals and a second keyboardist, Jos Heijmans. Rehearsals begun at a studio in Emmeloord and by the end of the year Minor Giant were officially born. The schedule of the band over the next couple of years included a set of succesful live performances and the recordings of a debut album…

Oliver Hartmann is a German metal vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer who performed in various acts, either as guitarist, solo or choir singer. He is best known for his role as vocalist and one of the founders of the band At Vance, his own band Hartmann and his guest appearances on albums of several prominent metal bands, including Freedom Call, Edguy, Rhapsody, Genius rock opera, Iron Mask, Aina's metal opera Days of Rising Doom and the metal opera Avantasia where he participated as a vocalist in 4 albums and also as a guitarist of the live and studio line up. He is also guitarist and vocalist with the Pink-Floyd tribute band Echoes.

Very few musical compositions truly deserve that overworked adjective “unique,” but it accurately applies to William Walton’s Façade.”] Or perhaps we should call this mostly-early work Façades, as it is recorded here in three parts: “Façade – An Entertainment” (21 pieces dating from 1922); “Façade 2 – A Further Entertainment” (8 more pieces; 1978-79); and the four pieces of “Façade: Additional Numbers” (1922, 1977).