International Prog Ensemble Sontaag To
Release Epic Space Opera
In the grand
tradition of high concept progressive rock comes an epic cross-media hybrid
where cerebral science fiction meets visceral rock ‘n’ roll. Sontaag’s
eponymous debut album has been described as ‘the space opera that Pink Floyd
never wrote’, ‘a modern-day Tubular Bells’, ‘a prog-rock War Of The Worlds’,
but no reference point or sound-bite nails its seamless combination of space
rock, narrative spoken word, and evocative ambience quite as neatly as ‘sonic
cinema’. Recorded in New York City and London, co-produced and mixed by Youth
(Killing Joke, The Fireman) for Big Life Management, ‘Sontaag’ is a stunning
and immersive listening experience. An evolutionary progression combining
cutting edge sounds with classic dynamics, adapting the rock experience for
today’s digital environment.
Arriving in a
landscape where music, books and movies often co-exist on a single handheld
device, ‘Sontaag’ represents a seamless fusion of the finest elements of all
three.
Sontaag features
Richard Sontaag (composition, instruments, concept, co-production) and Ian
Fortnam (story, lyrics, voice, concept).
‘Sontaag’ is a
cross-generic space rock grand opera: a transcontinental project fast-tracking
contemporary music into a cinematic future by refusing to recognize boundaries
geographic or stylistic. Imagine stratosphere-scraping Pink Floyd dynamism
powered beyond the boundaries and constraints of gravity by the propulsive
sonic energy of a visionary Youth production job; a Star Wars saga
psychedelicized by the vivid ambient shades of an Orb sound palette.
Sontaag is
evolving rock for the cybernautic age and the digital environment by adapting
and applying audio-visual and spoken word elements holistically, progressively…
super-sonically.
Voyage beyond
trad-rock constraints, shame faux modernity with inclusive, multi-dimensional
progression and embrace the ever-expanding horizons of cyber-sonic possibility.
Pucker up and
kiss… the apocalypse.
SONTAAG:
“Sontaag”
Esoteric Antenna
EANTCD 1031
Released: 28th
April 2014
1. Empyrean
2. The Great
Harmodulator
3. Spaceshifter
4. Harmodulation
5. Minor Keys of
Anguished Weeping
6. Serena
Serenarum
7. Sorush
8. Interstellar
Genocide
9. Chokuto
10. Glissandor
11. The
Skull-Scraping Caterwaul
12. Aftershock
13. Memoria
Tenere
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