Frames - CXXIV (EP) 2009 (Germany, Neo-Prog, Instrumental)

Jonas Meyer (guitarras)

Manuel Schoenfeld (teclados)

Greger Röhring (baixo) 

Kiryll Kulakowski (bateria).

Ocean

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Ruff

Insomnia

Compromise

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Frames - In Via 2012 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

German band FRAMES was formed in 2007, consisting of Jonas Meyer (guitars), Manuel Schoenfeld (keyboards), Greger Röhring (bass) and Kiryll Kulakowski (drums). Their aim is to create extraordinary music, constructing unique musical landscapes inspired by mosaic patterns.

So far this has lead to the EP "CXXIV" issued in 2009, with a subsequent record deal with SPV sublabel Steamhammer following in its wake. Around the time that EP was recorded, Röhring decided to leave the band, and was replaced by Julian Hoffman.

Jonas Meyer: guitar
Manuel Schönfeld: keys
Hajo Cirksena: bass
Kiryll Kulakowski: drums

1. Entrance
2. Departure
3. Encounter
4. Calm Wisdom
5. Stir
6. Reflections
7. Eris
8. Don't Stay Here
9. End Of A Decade
10. Coda

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Frames - Mosaik 2010 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

- Jonas Meyer / guitars
- Manuel Schoenfeld / keyboards
- Julian Hoffmann / bass
- Kiryll Kulakowski / drums

1. Intro (1:36)
2. The Beginning (4:23)
3. Agenda (4:40)
4. Transition (0:58)
5. Isp (6:56)
6. Insomnia (7:17)
7. Driving Head (5:45)
8. Intermission (1:35)
9. Horizon (6:44)
10. Audacity (4:40)
11. M (15:20)

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Pandoras.Box - Monomeet 2011 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

Martin Steer - Vocals, guitar
Johannes Hertrich - lead guitar
Philipp Dübell - Bass sounds
Markus Staudinger - Key, Vocals
Andre Wittmann - Drums, Percussion

1. Ballet Of Promises (4:12)
2. Nothing But The Wind (4:09)
3. Agent Of Time (3:46)
4. State Of Rust (4:40)
5. Monomeet (5:58)
6. A Nervous Smile (4:13)
7. 1910 (1:55)
8. Severn Suzuki (4:46)
9. Daily Hopes (3:44)
10. Life Does Not Really Fit (4:05)
11. Echoes (4:29)
12. Any Memories (4:58)
13. Like You Always Did (8:48)

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Mad Tea Party - The Marionette 1997 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

It is rare, but with MAD TEA PARTY we get something German that actually sounds like German, thanks to the members of this highly skilled German quintet, who have all visited the Cologne Conservatory at some point, have a knack for combining accessible, catchy melodies with complex musical structures.
You could name Yes, King Crimson and "Foxtrot"-era Genesis as their main source of inspiration although you'll only hear those influences very intermittently on their albums. Other references are probably Gino Vanelli, Saga, Gentle Giant and Tea In The Sahara - but only very roughly. This five-piece from Cologne are a bit hard to classify, although they seem to fit better in the neo-progressive spectrum.
Still, their music requires multiple listens to be completely understood. The combination of different times and shifting of accents does not end up in 'fooling around with timings', but also makes it hard to do full comparisons to other bands, much in the vein of The Flower Kings or Dragonfly.
MAD TEA PARTY's mini-CD as well as their full-length album "The Marionette" showcase some impressive instrumental work and solid drumming, as the band works its way through a series of short but colorful numbers alternating with melodious, catchy ballads and solid vocals throughout. The full CD features a couple of lengthy pieces, one of them a true-blue prog piece clocking in at almost 20 minutes where the guys really show their teeth and treat the listener to a roller-coaster of moods, themes and odd-time signatures. This track alone is worth the value of the album.
The band no longer exists but vocalist Alexandre Zindel and guitarist Markus Sagschneider, who were responsible for most of the compositions, now function as a duo under the name Two High.
Fans of the mentioned bands and neo-prog in general will certainly appreciate MAD TEA PARTY.

- Alexandre Zindel / vocals
- Markus Sagschneider / guitar
- Wolfgang Braun / keyboards
- Till Brandt / bass
- Martin Müller / drums

1. Love In A Square (5:44)
2. Magic Eye (4:21)
3. Every Day (5:12)
4. Shadows Of The Past (8:13)
5. Going Back In Time (4:43)
6. The Gorge (0:12)
7. Saved Teardrops (5:08)
8. Love Is Cool (4:05)
9. The Marionette (2:22)
10. My Decision (5:05)
11. Watch Out! (3:36)
12. She (19:23)

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Martigan - Vision 2009 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

- Alex Bisch / drums, vocals
- Bjorn Bisch / guitars
- Kai Marckwordt / vocals, guitars
- Oliver Rebhan / keyboards
- Peter Kindler / bass
With:
- Mirko Baumer / vocals
- Florian Saupp / kids voice on track 1

1. Boatmans Vision (23:12)
2. Craze This Town (6:46)
3. Snapshots (2:22)
4. Touch In Time (7:57)
5. A Great Concern (1:03)
6. Much More (6:51)
7. Red & Green (10:56)
8. The Contract (20:11)

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Martigan - Man Of The Moment 2002 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

- Alex Bisch / drums, backing vocals (all except 5)
- Björn Bisch / acoustic & electric guitars
- Peter Kindler / bass (4-9-10)
- Kai Marckwordt / lead vocals, guitar solo/bass (3), extro guitar (10), sax (4), flute (7)
- Oliver Strahl / keyboards, backing vocals (5-6)

1. The Pride (10:00)
2. Out Of Sight (5:48)
3. Closer contact (8:39)
4. 7th Floor (8:36)
5. Scapegoat & Scarecrow (4:54)
6. The Feast Intro (2:24)
7. The Feast (6:16)
8. Images & Tales (9:15)
9. Permission (5:20)
10. The Mask & The Raven II (14:24)

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Martigan - Ciel Ouvert 1996 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

- Alex Bisch / drums
- Jürgen Edlinger / guitar
- Kai Markwordt / vocals
- Axel Schütze / bass
- Oliver Strahl / keyboards, backing vocals

1. Ciel Ouvert (7:36)
2. Travellers (7:29)
3. The Trade (9:26)
4. Roll The Globe (5:56)
5. Parts (6:18)
6. The Mask & The Raven (8:18)
7. The Slowdown (2:08)
8. When Two Years Collide (7:04)
9. Ballrooms & Shades (6:49)
10. The final curtain (3:30)
11. Martigan's roulette (2:36) 

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Martigan - Stolzenbach 1995 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

- Alex Bisch / drums
- Jürgen Edlinger / guitar
- Kai Markwordt / vocals
- Axel Schütze / bass
- Oliver Strahl / keyboards, backing vocals 

1. Much More (6:37)
2. Roll The Globe (5:32)
3. Crazy Town (6:09)
4. Tonight (4:29)
5. Submarine Team (5:56)
6. Painter (3:33)
7. Noah (6:22)
8. Simplicius (4:23)
9. The Pride (9:30)
10. Scapegoat & Scarecrow (6:38)

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Martigan - Distant Monsters 2015 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

This Cologne-based foursome from the mid-80's plays some fine neo-prog in the best tradition of IQ, JADIS, PENDRAGON, early MARILLION and SAGA, but with a subtle and very pleasant flavour of their own. They went through quite a few line changes and now feature Alex Bisch on drums, brother Björn Bisch on guitars, Peter Kindler on bass, Oliver Strahl on keyboards and Kai Marckwordt on bass, guitar, sax, flute and lead vocals (a cross between Phil Collins and Dave Cousins, his vocals are truly outstanding).

Since the mid 90's, the band released two full-length albums and a maxi CD before the excellent "Man of the Moment" (2002); this one is the most mature of the lot and contains no weak tracks. Although no one really stands out, the musicianship is always sharp, the songwriting well crafted and the vocals sincere and powerful. If you wish, you can hear the entire album on their website; the files are highly compressed, however, and the sound quality is very poor.

If you're into neo prog and the words 'strongly melodic', 'accessible' and 'lush/full sound' appeal to you, you definitely ought to give their 2002 album a try. We are talking major-league neo-prog here.

- Kai Marckwordt / Lead Vocals, Guitar, Saxophone
- Oliver Rebhan / Keyboard,Backing Vocals
- Alex Bisch / Drums, Backing Vocals
- Björn Bisch / Guitar
- Mario Koch / Bass

1. Theodor's Walls
2. Lion (White, Wild & Blind)
3. Simplicius
4. Complicius
5. The Lake
6. On Tiptoe
7. Fire on the Pier
8. Take Me or Leave Me

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Morphelia - Prognocircus 2003 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

The band MORPHELIA was formed in Lower Saxony, Germany in 1999 by guitarist Guido Froehlich and keyboard player Guenter Gruenebast and drummer Elmar de Groot, when the three got together to have a jam session. Both Froehlich and Gruenebast had previously played with progressive rock band PEACOCK for almost 15 years and de Groot had played with KLEINHEIDE and other local bands prior to joining the other two musicians.

The band went without a name for a couple of years, until 2001, when singer Kurt Stwrtetschka joined the band, and MORPHELIA was officially born. Up to this point, the band had gone through several bass players, but finally a permanent fifth member was found in bassist Renko Rickerts.

In 2003, the band released its first album "Prognocircus", which received very positive reviews in the local press. The band took a full six years to release its follow-up album "Waken the Nightmare" a double concept album. Among the band's influences are DREAM THEATER, SAGA, PINK FLOYD and MARILLION.

- Kurt Stwrtetschka / vocals
- Guido Fröhlich / guitars
- Renko Rickerts / bass
- Günter Grünebast / keyboards
- Elmar de Groot / drums

1. Midnightsun (10:13)
2. Love of an Old Man (9:15)
3. Hazard (6:39)
4. A Winters Tale (7:42)
5. It's Time for a Change (8:40)
6. Dream of Jerusalem (8:48)
7. The Russian Fail (9:40)
8. Virginhood's End (11:08)

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Subsignal - Beautiful & Monstrous 2009 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

Founded in Munich, Germany in 2007

German outfit SUBSIGNAL was at first a side project for Sieges Even members Arno Menses (vocals) and Markus Steffen (guitars). The first creative output from this duo actually made it onto the Sieges Even album Paramount - a track called Eyes Wide Open.

In the summer of 2008 they left Sieges Even, and decided to turn this side project into a band, and with the addition of Ralf Schwager (bass), Roel van Helden (drums) and David Bertok (keyboards) a full line-up was in place. The aim of the band is to more or less continue where Sieges Even left off, but with a greater variety in terms of musical expressions.

In the spring of 2009 they started recording material for their first production, and in September 2009 the debut album Beautiful and Monstrous was released.

- Arno Menses / vocals, programming
- Markus Steffen / guitars, programming
- David Bertok / keyboards
- Ralf Schwager / bass
- Roel van Helden / drums, percussion
With:
- Marcel Coenen / guitar solo (1)
- Julia Sebastian / violin
- Theresia Lehner / cello (8)

1. Where Angels Fear to Tread (6:04)
2. Paradigm (6:29)
3. The Sea (7:00)
4. The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (6:21)
5. Walking With Ghosts (7:40)
6. I Go With the Wind (4:54)
7. To Hope the Road Is Long (4:15)
8. Beautiful & Monstrous (9:38)
9. The Last Light of Summer (4:02)
Bonus tracks on 2009 LP release:
10. Rain Is The Most Beautiful Color (6:39)

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Seven Steps to the Green Door - Step in 2 My World 2008 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

- Andreas Gemeinhardt / guitars
- Marek Arnold / keyboards, sax
- Ulf Reinhardt / drums, percussion
- Heiko Rehm / bass
- Lars Koehler / vocals
- Ronny Gruber / vocals
- Anne Trautmann / vocals

1. New Rising (5:55)
2. Stay Beside (6:01)
3. Step into my world (5:44)
4. Melissa (3:58)
5. My lovely Mr. Singong Club (2:53)
6. Attract Me (5:31)
7. Paid for Flance (7:26)
8. Moon Talks to Me (7:53)
9. Rishing Shore (6:04)
10. Closer (7:45)
11. Out of Clouds (5:07)
12. Making Of (1:24)

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T - Epistrophobia 2016 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

Thomas Thielen - Born 1976-03-23 (Germany)

Born and based in Germany, Thomas Thielen (SCYTHE) is the person behind the two albums so far released under the project name t. Initially a keyboard player, he started taking piano lessons in 1980. One year prior to finishing those he joined a band in 1992. Although that experience apparently was rather uneventful, it lead to Thielen changing his choice of main instrument; and during his tenure with this group he decided to start learning the guitar.

Soon after he joined a blues band as bassist; but that did not last too long either. It was a useful experience nonetheless; as the lack of rehearsing, planning and innovation led Thielen to want to do the exact opposite in his music. Around this time he started checking out a band called Marillion; which subsequently made him discover early 70's Genesis. While looking up this "mythic" music he also started taking singing lessons; from what one can read on his homepage, this was the start of a long and still ongoing journey of discovery and evolvement.

POWDS CON FUSION was the next band project Thielen got involved in; and after this outfit folded three members from that band, including Thielen, formed SCYTHE along with a bass player.
The recording of SCYTHE's second album "Divorced land" was a nice learning experience for Thielen, and a direct result of the knowledge acquired in those sessions was that he set up his own home studio. Galileo Records, who had released this production, was persuaded to release Thielen's first solo production "Naive" in 2002; issued under the moniker t.

The release was met with critical acclaim, and work began on a second solo album soon after. This follow-up release, "Voices" was issued by Galileo Records in 2006.

Taking cues from early GENESIS, Thielen has created two albums where this symphonic foundation has been mixed with impulses from acts like MARILLION (Hogarth era), PORCUPINE TREE and GAZPACHO; modern symphonic rock with leanings towards ambient music.

- Thomas "T" Thielen / all instruments & vocals, producer

- Chapter 4 - A Poet's Downfall :
1. In Abeyance (13:45)
2. The Dark Beyond Our Fears (12:01)
- Chapter 5 - Contingencies :
3. What If (5:51)
4. What If Not (12:22)
5. Forgiven (7:43)
- Chapter 6 - That Place Beyond The Skies :
6. A Mask Behind A Mask (12:08)
7. Epistrophe (14:16)

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Taliesyn - When Silence Will Be Unbearable 1996 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

Jennifer Holzschneider - vocals
Matthias Hellmold - guitar
Michael Haarhaus - bass
Markus Hinzmann - drums
Ruediger Blank - keyboards

01.Sad reality 7:18
02.Silence burns your skin 3:37
03.What the moon brings 3:24
04.Rush hour 5:11
05.Moving mania 5:02
06.Way of insight 4:28
07.Irresistible recurrence 6:45
08.King of dreamlands 9:03

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Superdrama - The Promise 2014 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

Robert Stein-Holzheim - Drums
Robert Gozon - Vocals, Keyboards
Thomas Klarmann - Bass, Flute
Michael Hahn - Guitars
Thilo Brauss - Organ & Additional Keyboards

1. Chance of a Lifetime (05:19)
2. Evening the Odds (06:45)
3. Turn the Stone (10:51)
4. In Love for a Day (06:41)
5. Beyond the Edge (09:15)
6. Healing Earth (05:58)
7. The Promise (11:44)

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Tea In The Sahara - Boomerang 1996 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

- Oliver Kauffmann / voice & keys
- Frank Muller / acoustic guitar
- Bob Kachler / bass, backing vocals, & acoustic guitar
- Jorg Bielfeldt / drums & percussion
- Jorg Baumann / electric and acoustic guitars

1. Edging the Tongue (9.06)
2. Vivian (6:33)
3. Boomerang (9:06)
4. Seasons (3:22)
5. Sometimes in Winter (5:15)
6. Waiting for a Perfect Time (6:28)
7. Harebrained (4:38)
8. A Lamentation of a Scapegrace (14:31)

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Tea In The Sahara - Behind the Door 1994 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

TEA IN THE SAHARA has a very conceptual approach to their music. The music encompasses a wide range of prog influences from detailed orchestration to improvisation. The sound has something for every prog listener. The full band plays solid and skillful prog. A good neo Progressive issue from Germany, containing the exact balance between sung and instrumental parts. It will appeal to all fans of IQ or PENDRAGON.

- Jörg Baumann / guitars
- Bob Kachler / basses, backing vocals
- Oliver Kauffmann / lead vocals, keyboards, drums
- Frank Müller / acoustic guitar

1. Hangman (9:40)
2. Crystal voyager (8:48)
3. Casual silence (11:08)
4. Cosmorama (11:33)
5. A song of a self (9:57)
6. Behind the door (7:18)

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The Healing Road - Birdbrain's Travels 2014 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

THE HEALING ROAD is the moniker used by German composer and multi-instrumentalist Hanspeter Hess when releasing his musical creations.

He started recording his own compositions in 2005, and with contributions from friends and aquaintances 2006 saw the release of the first album "The Healing Road".

Hess took part in the "Hope | Omid" project instigated by the the German Spock's Beard fanclub "The Bearded" in 2007 by contributing a song from his debut album, and later the same year the second production issued under The Healing Road moniker, "Timanfaya", was released.

2008 saw this project signed to French Label Musea Records, who subsequently re-released "Timanfaya", and in December 2008 the third creation "Tales From The Dam" was released; issued as a LP and CD bundle.

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=45271

- Hanspeter Hess / keyboards, Roland V-Drums
With
- Chris Grundmann / keyboards
- Thommy Frank / guitars
- Axel Zabel / guitars
- Kai Heyrock / bass guitar
- Stefan Dittmar / drums
- Markus Roth / Hammond L-122 organ

1. Birdbrain's Travels Part 1 (24:31)
2. Birdbrain's Travels Part 2 (21:17)

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The Vow - Trojan 2002 (Germany, Neo-Prog)

- Holger Goetz / vocals, keyboards
- Ralf Link / guitars, bass, synthesizers

1. Introduction (11:00)
2. The old and wise man (7:43)
3. Close to the sky (10:59)
4. The dragons' cave (9:25)
5. Castle of the thousand doors (9:17)
6. In the maze (8:31)
7. Under the apple tree (5:47)
8. The prince of darkness (8:20)

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