Rpwl

"Start The Fire" is RPWL's first live album after their album success "World Through My Eyes". Disc one is featuring songs from a "Rockpalast" show highlighting the band’s first three albums ("God Has Failed", "Trying to Kiss the Sun" and "Stock") with a special appearance of Ray Wilson ("Roses", "Not About Us"). Disc two, on the other hand, is a tour de force that reflects RPWL's live experience from three tours. More upbeat and borderline sublime - punctuated by some Pink Floyd covers like the surprise version of Syd Barrett's "Opel" or the great "Welcome To The Machine". The album concludes with the complete 12-and-a-half-minute version of the evocative "New Stars Are Born" Only the first seven minutes of this song were included on "World Through My Eyes".

“There are many stories about visits from extraterrestrials. Sometimes the aliens come as friends, sometimes they come to enslave us. On this cold night, lights in the sky are making people all over the world uneasy…”

This RPWL release from 2007 is a special offer for their fans with a funny concept because limited to 999 copies, released at 09/09 and provided with 9 songs. Basically there are no surprises to point out - they remain faithful to their previous musical direction and have produced ambitious songs once again which are on the border between neo prog and psychedelic/space. So we have five live tracks whereas two of them are performed with the founding member Paul Rissettio on drums who was responsible for the R in the band name. Every member has added a new selfcomposed studio track which is another speciality of this album.

The concept albums "Wanted" (2014) and "Beyond Man And Time" (2012) are widely recognized as the pinnacle of German art rock giants RPWL’s discography which meanwhile comprises more than a dozen releases. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the band is now set to release the long-awaited concert movie "A New Dawn." It documents the last stop of the tour in support of the "Wanted" album and that evening the Bavarians played in their hometown of Freising, Bavaria in October 2015. The show is an elaborately assembled combination of elements of a rock concert, a multimedia event and a play. This was the first and only time that the mammoth-production was brought to the stage. In addition to the musicians themselves the cast comprised around fifty actors and extras.

One of the most interesting German art/prog rock bands in a spectacle you'll never forget! The double CD DG features a special show recorded earlier this year at Wyspiaoski Theater in Katowice, Poland, which was also the last complete performance of their most recent album ""Beyond Man and Time"" in Europe…

Live concert performance from German progressive rock band RPWL. Performing in Freising, Bavaria, on the last night of their tour in support of their album 'Wanted', the tracks performed include 'Revelation', 'Wanted', 'A New Dawn' and 'Unchain the Earth'…

When RPWL singer Yogi Lang says (in the liner notes) that "the world depends on our ideals and moral concepts, and so it finally depends on our mental development," one can only hope that the "we" he's referring to is humanity in general, not his band specifically…