New solo album by Marek Arnold, feat. more than 50 of the greatest artists / musicians of the scene ( see guest list below ) - featured on a limited ( 300 pcs! ) blue - double vinyl (180g ) and stunning artwork by Ed Unitsky!

comes with signed artist card and blue pencil of MAARP.

check the trailer here: youtu.be/jNg52yT09Ns

PLEASE NOTE : CDs are available, too. Please write a personal message or mail to marek@bside-music.de for infos.

album info:

After well over 60 album releases with his bands and projects such as: "SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR", "TOXIC SMILE", "CYRIL", "MANUEL SCHMID & MAREK ARNOLD", as a member of the German art rock legends "STERN COMBO MEISSEN" and internationally Bands like UPF, FLAMING ROW or DAMANEK, as well as a guest of established projects like THE SAMURAI OF PROG, MELANIE MAU & MARTIN SCHNELLA, ARGOS, SUBSIGNAL or SOUTHERN EMPIRE are presented by the German saxophonist, keyboarder and producer MAREK ARNOLD. With the participation of many international guest stars the progressive rock scene – his first solo album.

The idea for this album was born when Uwe Treitinger, organizer of the established Artrock Festival Reichenbach/Vogtland had the idea for a “hymn” for the festival, asked Marek to do it and both asked well-known guest musicians. The song STAY were released in 2018 and was enthusiastically received in the scene, played by prog and rock stations and sold well at the festival for charity purposes. The requests for a complete album kept coming. This is how work on the 2020 album started. It was clear from the start that this album should reflect the full stylistic diversity that always played a role in the compositions for Marek's bands. This is how new songs were created between art rock and progressive metal, sometimes jazzy elements, but always with the typical signature of the author. For mix / mastering, Marek was able to get Martin Schnella to his side again.

From the beginning, it was clear that the musical implementation should been realized with the best musicians for the respective song. In addition to the longstanding musical partners of Marek Arnold, many international stars of the scene could been won for the album, the list of musicians reads like a who's who of the prog scene. Nevertheless, a clear red thread runs through the songs. With about 80 minutes, the publication also wants to set more than just a first exclamation mark.

cast:

Marek Arnold: Composition – Lyric – Production – Keyboards – Saxophone – Clarinet - Tenor/Soprano Recorder – Seaboard – Background-Vocals – Programming

together with:

VOCALS
Peter Jones (Tiger Moth Tales, Camel, Colin Tench Project, Reed Bazar)
Arno Menses (Subsignal, Sieges Even, Journeye)
Larry B. (Toxic Smile, CYRIL, Stern Combo Meissen)
Manuel Schmid (Stern Combo Meissen)
Anne Trautmann (Seven Steps To The Green Door)
Melanie Mau (Melanie Mau & Martin Schnella, Gray Matters, Flaming Row)
Kiri Marie Geile (Flaming Row, Steel Protector)
Zeynah
Eric Castiglio
Andre Weller (Seven Steps To The Green Door)
George Andrade (Seven Steps To The Green Door)

DRUMS & PERCUSSION
Marco Minnemann (Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats, The Sea Within, The Mute Gods, +)
Craig Blundell (Frost*, Pendragon, Steven Wilson, Steve Hackett, +)
Sebastian Lanser (Panzerballett, Obsidious, Obscura, +)
John Macaluso (Yngwie Malmsteen, Symphonie X, ARK, Michael Romeo, James LaBrie, +)
Niklas Kahl (My Inner Burning, Erdling, Lord Of The Lost, Flaming Row, Joachim Witt)
Dominique „Gaga“ Ehlert (Dark Suns, +)
Ulf Reinhardt (Seven Steps To The Green Door)
Simon Schröder (Persona, Melanie Mau & Martin Schnella, ISSUN, Cryptex)

BASS
Laurence Cottle (Black Sabbath, The Alan Parsons Project, Bill Bruford’s Earthworks, Clapton, +)
Lars Lehmann (freelancer and studio musician)
Piotr Witkowski (Collage, Mr Gil)
Robert Brenner (Toxic Smile, Seven Steps To The Green Door, Stern Combo Meissen)
Yenz Strutz (Crystal Palace)
Marco Bernard (The Samurai Of Prog)
Denis Strassburg (CYRIL)
Martin Schnella (Flaming Row, Gray Matters)
Martin Fankhänel (The Laterizer, Seven Steps To The Green Door)

GUITARS
Kalle Wallner (RPWL)
Gary Chandler (Jadis)
Martin Schnella (Flaming Row, Gray Matters)
Martin Fankhänel (The Laterizer, Seven Steps To The Green Door)
Marcella Arganese (Ubi Major, Mr. Punch)
Luke Machin (The Tangent, Maschine, Francis Dunnery Band)
Jane Getter (Jane Getter Premonition)
Jörg Sweikowski (Chorin Night)
Stephan Pankow (Seven Steps To The Green Door, Toxic Smile, smalltape)

KEYBOARDS, ORGAN & SYNTHESIZER
Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Planet X, Sons of apollo, Black Country Communion)
Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson, Michel Petrucciani, +)
Alex Grünwald (Münchener Freiheit)
Marius Leicht (POLIS, Mother Engine)
Sean Timms (Unitopia, Southern Empire)
Luca Di Gennaro (Soul Secret)

WIND & BRASS
Steven Tailor, Flöten (Toxic Smile´s Classic Extension Orchestra)
Luis Márquez, Oboe
Claude Lumley, Horn
Yakiv Tsvietinskyi, Trompete

STRINGS:
Steve Unruh, Violine (Resistor, The Samurai Of Prog, Unitopia, UPF)
Markus Dreßler, Violine, Viola
Carmen Dreßler, Cello

LYRICS
George Andrade (SSTTGD)
Torsten Schomann (Toxic Smile)
Guy Manning (Damanek)