Fuchs "Station Songs"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Tempus Fugit
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 18, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. The Invisible Man (11:20)
2. Even If The Salary’s Low (6:35)
3. So Many Days - The Great Divide - Under Suburban Skies (10:46)
4. Crowded Boats On Silent Sea (2:01)
5. Why Me? (5:42)
6. How Could I Just Ignore Him? - The Night And The Dark And The Pain (9:02)
7. I’m On My Way Again (5:12)
8. Sleepwalking Man (7:48)
9. Will Come What May (7:13)

Total Time 65:39

Line-up: 
Hans-Jürgen Fuchs (Ines): electric and acoustic guitars, lapsteel, bass, piano, keyboards, programming, backing vocals
Ines Fuchs (Ines): synth solos, piano
Andy Bartzik: electric and acoustic guitars
Ulbi Ulbricht: bass
Florian Dittrich: drums
Michael Wasilewski: vocals
Baggi Buchmann (Ines): vocals

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Pat Mastelotto & Markus Reuter "Face"

Country: Germany, USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Tempus Fugit ‎(TF VÖ 41)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: March 24, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Face - 35:11

Line-up: 
Markus Reuter (Stick Men, Crimson ProjeKct, Tuner): Touch Guitars, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitars, Melodica, Grand Piano, Banjo, Bulbul Tarang, Omnichord, Synthesizer
Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, Stick Men, Mr. Mister): Acoustic and Electronic Drums and Percussives
   With
Fabio Trentini: Electric Guitars, Guitar Synth, Fretless Bass
Tim Motzer: Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Ukulele
Mark Williams: Mandocello, Fretless Bass, Cello, Voice
Monica Champion: Clarinet, Saxophone, Voice
Steven Wilson: Vocal Chords
Annette Franzen: Violin
Adrian Benavides: Electric Guitar
Michael Mordecai: Trombone
Marcus Graf: Trumpet
Chrysta Bell: Voice
Brad Houser: Bass Clarinet
Luca Calabrese: Flügelhorn
Michael Bernier: Bowed Stick
Danny Wilde: Voice
Yoshi Hampl: Voice
Renée Stieger: Voice

Description/Reviews: 

With echoes of Mike Oldfield’s melodicism, Crimsonesque complexities, churning bass that wouldn’t be out of place in classic-era Yes and even languid Floyd-like soloing, the link to a progressive rock vocabulary is unmistakable.
Incorporating several different moods and personas during its intricately orchestrated duration, FACE is designed as a harmonic palindrome, looking both forward and backward. Ending as it begins with the ambient sound of an outdoors field recording, the listener is taken on a dramatic expedition in structure, rhythm, melody and harmony and then returned to the point of their departure.
Consisting of 385 bars of music, FACE is variously filled with tumbling percussives;radiant vocal harmonies; words intoned as if in some secret ritual; shimmering fuzzed guitars; waspish flights of stinging brass darting across fusillades of thunderous drums; surging keyboards whose lines ripple in spirals and mesh like gears into the rhythm tracks.
In the same way that an optical illusion challenges our perception, there are times when what appeared initially as intimate acoustic spaces suddenly empties out into arena-sized ambience, altering our impression of melody and aural space. Playful, exotic and diverse, it’s a piece that despite its relative brevity is as ambitious as it is capacious.

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Fuchs "The Unity Of Two"

Country: Germany
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Tempus Fugit
Release date: June 16, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Prologue part 1 - 2:40
2. Prologue part 2 - 10:18
3. Are you with me - 5:26
4. Under your thumb - 4:36
5. Just a moment of a perfect summer - 5:07
6. How many times? - 6:17
7. Doubts - 2:27
8. Your best maybe - 2:23
9. Where do I go? - 3:49
10. I‘m on my knees - 6:35
11. Back to where we belonged - 5:57
12. When you close your eyes - 8:13

Line-up: 
Hans-Jürgen Fuchs (Ines) – acoustic and electric guitars, lapsteel, bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Baggi Buchmann (Ines) – lead vocals (Aaron)
Michael Wasilewski – lead vocals (Ray)
Andy Bartzik – electric guitars
Florian Dittrich – drums
Henrik Mumm – cello
Rafael Sonntag – violin
Mirjam Michutta – backing vocals

Description/Reviews: 

The unity of Two is the story of Aaron and Ray. In a similar way as Hermann Hesse's two characters, Narziss and Goldmund, it's a story pulling at your heartstrings. It's dealing with friendship, devotion, turmoil, the many layers of the human soul and the different ways in life. The concept album "The Unity Of Two" mainly follows Aaron's way of life, who is going out into the world while his friend Ray is staying at home. Late in life, both friends are meeting again and realising the things they have in common. It turns out that even though Aaron and Ray did follow two completely different ways of life, they both have experienced true happiness and inspiration. This is "the unity of two."
 In musical terms, Hans-Jürgen (Hansi) Fuchs has created his second album in a definitely more open and more varied style as it was the case with his debut album "Leaving Home" from 2012. Very clearly, the music is again influenced by progressive rock. If you want to have any comparison, "The Unity Of Two" musically reminds you rather of the late 70s phase of Genesis than the heaviness of the early 80s Pink Floyd, as it was the case with the debut album.
 The songs change between the 13 min progressive rocker "Prologue" and the folk oriented "Your Best Maybe" which could actually be a radio song too with its catchy melody, and between the elaborated instrumental passages of "When You Close Your Eyes", and hence show a broad range, featuring musical maturity.

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