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    Kscope's IAMTHEMORNING announced new album "The Bell" out on 2nd August




    Following the success of IAMTHEMORNING’s two studio albums for Kscope - Belighted, the award winning Lighthouse and their most recent live studio film Ocean Sounds, the Russian duo, comprising of virtuoso classical pianist Gleb Kolyadin and charismatic vocalist Marjana Semkina are releasing their new album entitled The Bell on 2nd August.

    Their dedication to writing forward-thinking and thought-provoking music sees the duo create a new album of impressive depth and playability. A modern blend of rock, classical and folk, The Bell makes use of 19th Century song cycles– a style established by Schubert – that cohesively tells 10 individual stories.

    Vocalist Marjana Semkina explains in more detail “The Bell is divided into two parts but each song is a story in its own right, all of them are fuelled by human cruelty and pain caused by it. Cruelty is the central theme of the album - together with all the different ways we respond to it and cope with it. This album is multi-layered and is, in many ways, a journey inwards, taking us inside of a mind of a person suffering from abuse or neglect or open hostility of the society or a specific person.

    Aesthetically, the album is based on themes taken from Victorian England’s art and culture, but more in a way of turning our attention to the fact that at its core, humankind isn’t making much progress in terms of emotional maturity.

    The Bell was recorded in March 2019 across Russia, the UK and Canada in several studios: Mosfilm in Moscow; Lendoc and Red Wave in St Petersburg; Noatune in London; The Studio at Sunbeams, Penrith; and Union Sound Company in Toronto. With engineering and mastering handled by Vlad Avy.

    The beautiful album artwork for The Bell was created by the band’s favoured collaborator Constantine Nagishkin. Marjana explains the imagery “on the cover is a safety coffin bell – it's a 19th century idea born from people’s obsessive fear of being buried alive, having been provoked by a lot of press attention to supposed cases of premature burials across the country. and the fact that Edgar Allan Poe frightened many readers by vividly describing the premature burial phenomenon in his short stories.

    “One of the inventions to escape such a terrifying ordeal was a so called “safety coffin” that existed in many different configurations, including the one that had a bell attached to the gravestone with a thread that was attached to it and went all the way underground into the coffin so that the when the poor soul awoke and on realizing he's been buried alive, could ring to let the people outside know what has happened.

    “Although the idea is a bit morbid I feel there is hope in the artwork too – no matter how low you are or desperate you think your situation is, you can still call for help, but more than that you have to call for help if you need it”
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    Thanks, Svetonio. You liked this band very much under your previous five or six monikers as well, and Kscope are absolutely always a safe guarantee for fantastik bombastik.

    Btw, "chamber progressive rock" was new with Kscope's Iamthemorning - wasn't it? Oh, heck. Perhaps not

    https://www.progressiveears.org/foru...t=chamber+rock
    https://www.progressiveears.org/foru...t=chamber+rock
    http://www.progressiveears.org/forum...t=chamber+rock

    They're nice enough, though. And, I suppose, about as deserving or non-so of the "prog-rock" tag as Univers Zero. As found in here, attacked by one 'Juba': https://www.progressiveears.org/foru...light=svetonio

    Both Deo and Daoubourg appeared in that thread too. It's such a mystery, this. Lotsa Svets Atonce. It could almost be the name of a brand new "chamber progressive rock" band.
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    Big fan here, looking forward to this!

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    I really liked their last one. Looking forward to this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Thanks, Svetonio. You liked this band very much under your previous five or six monikers as well, and Kscope are absolutely always a safe guarantee for fantastik bombastik.

    Btw, "chamber progressive rock" was new with Kscope's Iamthemorning - wasn't it? Oh, heck. Perhaps not

    https://www.progressiveears.org/foru...t=chamber+rock
    https://www.progressiveears.org/foru...t=chamber+rock
    http://www.progressiveears.org/forum...t=chamber+rock

    They're nice enough, though. And, I suppose, about as deserving or non-so of the "prog-rock" tag as Univers Zero. As found in here, attacked by one 'Juba': https://www.progressiveears.org/foru...light=svetonio

    Both Deo and Daoubourg appeared in that thread too. It's such a mystery, this. Lotsa Svets Atonce. It could almost be the name of a brand new "chamber progressive rock" band.


    I haven't listened to iamthemorning, but I do have Gleb Kolyadin's solo album and really enjoy that a lot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aith01 View Post


    I haven't listened to iamthemorning, but I do have Gleb Kolyadin's solo album and really enjoy that a lot.
    Gleb Kolyadin is indeed an ingenious composer and a great pianist. And for those who may not know his solo work, it should be noted that Kolyadin's solo record features a contemporary prog-rock "dream team" including Theo Travis on flute and saxophone, Gavin Harrison on drums, Nick Beggs on bass, Steve Hogarth has sang lead vocals and Jordan Rudess played additional keys.

    feat. Steve Hogarth



    full album

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    Don't care much about iamthemorning but that solo album Kolyadin was quite nice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kcrimso View Post
    Don't care much about iamthemorning but that solo album Kolyadin was quite nice.
    A quite nice solo album of course, but I don't think it would be an overstatement if I say that Gleb Kolyadin s/t CD is quite a masterpiece in the level of the greatest progressive music masterpieces from the seventies, and that Kolyadin himself is another Keith Emerson.


    Gleb Kolyadin's amazing solo recital of Confluence the track from his solo album, live in Saint Petersburg, 2018

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    Quote Originally Posted by daoubourg View Post
    A quite nice solo album of course, but I don't think it would be an overstatement if I say that Gleb Kolyadin s/t CD is quite a masterpiece in the level of the greatest progressive music masterpieces from the seventies, and that Kolyadin himself is another Keith Emerson.
    Well I would say that it would be a HUGE overstatement.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kcrimso View Post
    Well I would say that it would be a HUGE overstatement.
    Aren't we tend to neglect solo albums, especially solo albums from this decade? Yet, Gleb's album contain everything what a real masterpiece of prog-rock genre have to have: originality, awesome composing, complexity, virtuosity, great melodies, a deep emotion, elegancy, some beautiful singing & lyrics, a perfect production and a huge thrill that keep a listener's attention from the first to the last tone.

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    Why don't I like iamthemorning?

    I absolutely adored the Gleb solo album. In fact it made my Top 20 for last year. But haven't been able to listen to any of his band's LP's without falling asleep.

    Maybe this one will have a little pep in its step...
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    Quote Originally Posted by daoubourg View Post
    Aren't we tend to neglect solo albums, especially solo albums from this decade? Yet, Gleb's album contain everything what a real masterpiece of prog-rock genre have to have: originality, awesome composing, complexity, virtuosity, great melodies, a deep emotion, elegancy, some beautiful singing & lyrics, a perfect production and a huge thrill that keep a listener's attention from the first to the last tone.
    I agree.
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