Magnificent track.  The interlude section is finely done.

Prog pt2

"All your thoughts, all your fears, all the logic disappears..."

The album is now available for pre-order exclusively from eSoundz: http://www.esoundz.com/details.php?ProductID=5336 (Standard CD + MP3)  

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I'm very excited to share this clip with you because it features a guest guitar performance from Steve Hackett, legendary guitarist from the band Genesis! I did some production assistance and keyboards on his Genesis Revisited album (which was a complete honor) and to "return the favor" he offered to play on my first ever solo album! (Don't tell him that he owed me no favor as the favor was letting me play on his album in the first place!). I'm such a fan of his playing and of Steve himself. He and Jo and Roger and his whole band have been so cool to be around... I could go on and I will when I get a proper blog. So, this is part of the closing track on my album which is the book-end to the "rock opera" that starts off the album. The title of this section of the song is "Ascension". This of course is just a rough work in progress mix for now to get a taste of what the album is going to be like. If you're into "old Genesis" there are some tips of the hat in that direction especially having Steve on board. But there are also people who have played with Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, It Bites, Big Big Train, Alan Parsons Project, Chicago and other bands all over the album. If you want to hear classic rock and Prog in a modern musical context then I'm making this record for you! That's what I like myself! 

Follow my album progress on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/davesquidskerzner  

Share this! Help spread the word. This is my first solo album after leaving the band Sound of Contact. It has Nick D'Virgilio on drums who I used to play with in Kevin Gilbert's Thud. So many great players and songs filled with genuine emotion. Check out the other clips too! - Dave (aka Squids)


All lyrics and music written by Dave Kerzner. 
©2014, Dave Kerzner - RecPlay Inc. All Rights Reserved.  

"Ascension" With Hackett for Dave Kerzner album "New World"

Here's another clip from my upcoming album "New World", although this one may end up being a bonus track for my Kickstarter campaign exclusively as opposed to a track on the regular release. Not sure yet. As usual this is a rough work in progress mix. This time I'm show cases the talents of Fernando Perdomo, a multi-instrumentalist who has contributed a ton of guitar and bass on this album. Here Fern, Nick D'Virgilio and I go wild in the middle section of a song called "The Way Out". 

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My web site will be up soon and the Kickstarter campaign will begin any day now. Thank you for your interest and support! - Dave

Way Out Guitar - feat Fernando Perdomo for Dave Kerzner's New World

Now available from iTunes and other download stores. Full album-length version and bonus tracks available in MP3 and FLAC here: https://sonicelements.bandcamp.com/album/stranded 

Stranded
(Lyrics and Music By Dave Kerzner)

Part 1: Isolation
Part 2: Delirium
Part 3: March of the Machines
Part 4: Source Sublime
Part 5: The Darkness

Lyrics: 

Sudden isolation
A lone forgotten name
The wind will blow the dust of greed and shame
  
Stranded in a wasteland
Won’t be crawling back
We have to face the void for what we lack 

A wave of evolution
Moves across the sand
All will be forgiven
Only some will understand

I am not your conscience 
I am not your trash
You gravely made the trade for petty cash
A lie with no repentance 
A waiting loaded gun
Poised to end the game with anyone

A wave of evolution
Moves across the sand
All will be forgiven
Only some will understand
Once the leaves of trees are gone
With nothing left to smile upon
We’ll trace our steps back to the dawn
Of what is right and wrong

Miles beyond the blinding sun I go
No water in sight
Just follow the light
And pray for the night 

The Earth, the moon and stars align
The truth behind facades will shine
Quickly shifting paradigm
Reveals the source sublime

Appearing in the distance
Subtle signs of life
I’ll have to save the strength for another flight 

A wave of evolution
Moves across the sand
All will be forgiven
Only some will understand
Once the leaves of trees are gone
With nothing left to smile upon
We’ll trace our steps back to the dawn
Of what is right and wrong

Watching evading the words so degrading the stabs in the back to the start where we are not the sheep or the shepherd to keep from the leopard who eats out your heart and then takes on the part of the bringer of light and the breaker of dreams lost in the ego’s impossible schemes fuel for the weak becomes paralyzed in paradise multiple deception and gross misconception of rat-like imposters who feed on their own up to what you have done and the seeds you have sown in the darkness of hiding the truth that you’ve known the fearful believers will sink like a stone.

Follow the light
Pray for the night

Credits: 

Dave Kerzner - Vocals, Keyboards, Sound Design
Steve Hackett - Guitar on "March of the Machines"
Durga McBroom - Vocals
Fernando Perdomo - Guitar, Bass
Nick D'Virgilio - Drums
Jason Scheff - Backing Vocals
Ana Cristina - Backing Vocals

Produced by: Dave Kerzner
Mixed by: Tom Lord-Alge at South Beach Studios
Recorded by: Dave Kerzner, Justin Phelps, Fernando Perdomo, Roger King
Mastered by: Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen for Lurssen Mastering
Graphic Design by: Dave Kerzner, Christine Leakey
Sounds by: Sonic Reality Inc. 

©2014, Dave Kerzner, RecPlay Inc. All Rights Reserved. 

Stranded (Single)

The Great Escape

Norwegian Art-rock progressive outfit Gazpacho are set to release their brand new studio album ‘Molok’ through Kscope on 23rd October 2015.
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‘Molok’ the follow up to their acclaimed 2014 album Demon sees the band continue to push the boundaries for creating the most complicated and strangest concepts for a record while simultaneously becoming the first band ever who are actively trying to destroy the universe with their album.

A small code that sounds like a strange noise at the end of the album will cause the correction software that runs in all CD players to generate a random number every time the CD is played. If that number should correspond to the actual position of all electrons in the universe then technically the universe could be destroyed.  

Of course you may wonder why a band would want to destroy the universe but as the band ask, ‘If it can be destroyed by such minute creatures within it, if it is just a chemical reaction, then does it have any spiritual value? In this scenario there is no good or bad, just an absence of meaning'.

Across the album there are religious themes going head to head with modern day new science ideas and theories, Gazpacho’s Thomas Andersen states, ‘the album itself is about a man that sometime around 1920 decides that wherever anyone worships a God they always seem to be worshipping stone in some form. Whether it is a grand cathedral, the stone in Mecca or Stonehenge. God seems to have been chased by his worshipers into stone never to return. This harkens back to Norwegian folk myths where if a troll was exposed to sunlight it would turn to stone but it also reflects the way God has been incommunicado for a very long time.’

The band go on to say, ‘In a mechanistic view of the universe all events in the universe are a consequence of a previous event. This means that with enough information you should be able to calculate the past and the future and this is what he does. He names the machine ‘Molok’ after the biblical demon into whose jaws children were sacrificed because his machine crunches numbers. On solstice day he starts the machine and it quickly gains some form of intelligence as it races through history undergoing its own evolution.‘

Throughout ‘Molok’ the band focus on the idea that without God/a god to guide us, humanity is unsure of the meaning of life, that while we attempt to fill the void with other things we’ve still not found the answer and without a master to lean on we are very much alone in this universe.

On the album Gazpacho make a direct connection with history. Norwegian music archaeologist Gjermund Kolltveit appears on the song "Molok Rising" plays his reconstruction of stone-age instruments making an educated guess at what the early songs of worship must have sounded like. This includes small stones, moose jaws and an assortment of flutes and stringed instruments. He also plays the Skåra stone, a singing stone which has a strong possibility of having been in use since the last ice age ended 10.000 years ago. Technically this means that the album uses the oldest original instrument ever recorded on an album.
The band are also joined by world-renowned Norwegian accordion player Stian Carstensen who is a central member of Balkan-jazz orchestra Farmers Market

Gazpacho are on tour in Oct - for details : https://www.facebook.com/Gazpacho.Official.BandPage
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Know Your Time

Gazpacho - Know Your Time (taken from Molok)

Lead vocalist Jon Anderson(architect  of YES music &  beyond )- and guitarist,composer,producer Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings, Transatlantic )  release their first  amazing album as "Anderson & Stolt" in 2016 -   "Invention of Knowledge" - The first electric full band album from Jon Anderson in many years - on Inside Out Music/Century Media. With guests Tom Brislin, Jonas Reingold, Nad Sylvan etc. Here's the opening track . - You can buy the whole album from shops,retailers, iTunes and every progdealer known to man,spirit & animal.  -      Pick up this album Anderson/Stolt - Invention of Knowledge. @
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Invention of Knowledge

Invention Of Knowledge

AndersonStolt InventionOfKnowledge

Deadwing is the eighth studio album by Porcupine Tree, released on 28 March 2005. The album is based on a screenplay written by Steven Wilson and Mike Bennion, and is essentially a ghost story. Wilson had expressed the intention to eventually have this film script made into a movie.

The album produced two singles, “Shallow” and “Lazarus”. The album also produced three music videos for “Lazarus”, “Start of Something Beautiful”, and “Glass Arm Shattering”.

The album includes collaborations with King Crimson’s Adrian Belew, who plays guitar solos on the title track “Deadwing” and “Halo”, and Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt, who adds vocal harmonies on “Deadwing”, “Lazarus”, and “Arriving Somewhere But Not Here”. He also plays the second guitar solo on “Arriving Somewhere But Not Here”.

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Porcupine Tree - Shallow (from Deadwing)

From the album A Wound in Eternity by Farflung (MeteorCity 2008)

Farflung - Unborn Planet

Dave Kerzner is a producer/songwriter and keyboardist who has worked with a variety of artists ranging from Kevin Gilbert to Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson, Francis Dunnery and many more. He is best known for his debut solo album New World and for co-creating the award-winning album Dimensionaut with Sound of Contact as well as being the head of the popular music software and sound development company Sonic Reality. Another music project of Dave's is "Sonic Elements' which combines the sounds of Sonic Reality that feature artists like Neil Peart of Rush or Nick Mason of Pink Floyd combined with special guests like Billy Sherwood (Yes), Keith Emerson, members of bands like Porcupine Tree, SOC and more. 

This page has been set up primarily as an outlet to hear advanced clips from Dave's solo project. You can follow Dave on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davesquidskerzner

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