Adrian Belew Presents Newest Music in An App

Guitar legend Adrian Belew has just released his newest music – and it’s like nothing you’ve experienced before. FLUX by belew™ is music that is never the same twice... think about that for a moment.

This new revolution in music provides listeners with a mobile “listening experience” that blends music and art all in one accessible iOS application. Now you have access to hundreds of combinations of new Adrian Belew songs, snippets and sound bites that have been cut up, randomized and reassembled in a way that's surprising and unique.

The app embodies the future of technology and taps into what we love most about the Internet and social media: it’s always changing and moving forward.

Developed in Amsterdam by MOBGEN and recorded by Belew himself, the musical roulette engine within FLUX by belew randomly connects sounds and beautiful visuals together using different algorithms to produce endless variations.

“I wanted to involve art and nature in the recordings – not just songs and music but also the feeling of life itself, where things are different all the time,” says Belew.

 

He intends to keep adding to FLUX to make it truly an ever-evolving experience.

 

Adrian’s newest music in the FLUX by belew app is currently available for iPhones and iPads through the iTunes store for $9.99.

 

For more information go to: http://bit.ly/flux_belew

 

Adrian Belew's official website: http://www.adrianbelew.net/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdrianBelew

Gong's Daevid Allen Thanks His Fans

Daevid Allen, co-founder of The Soft Machine and most notably of psychedelic/space rock/Canterbury/jazz fusion prog band Gong, has announced on Gong's website that the cancer that afflicted him has returned in force. Allen's doctors have given him at most six months to live.

In the same statement he also announced that he won't be seeking further treatment. Read it in full here:

Hello you Kookaburras,

OK so I have had my PET-CAT scans (which is essentially a full body viewing gallery for cancer specialists, ) and so it is now confirmed that the invading cancer has returned to successfully establish dominant residency in my neck.

The original surgery took much of it out, but the cancer has now recreated itself with renewed vigour while also spreading to my lung.

The cancer is now so well established that I have now been given approximately six months to live.

So My view has Changed:

I am not interested in endless surgical operations and in fact it has come as a relief to know that the end is in sight.

I am a great believer in “The Will of the Way Things Are” and I also believe that the time has come to stop resisting and denying and to surrender to the way it is.

I can only hope that during this journey, I have somehow contributed to the happiness in the lives of a few other fellow humans.

I believe I have done my best to heal, dear friends and that you have been enormously helpful in supporting me through this time.

So Thank you SO much for being there with me, for the Ocean of Love and Now, importantly, Thank you for starting the process of letting go of me, of mourning then transforming and celebrating this death coming up – this is how you can contribute, this would be a great gift from those emotionally and spiritually involved with me.

I love you and will be with you always  

- Daevid xxx -

Allen was born in Australia in 1938. In 1961 he moved to the UK and co-founded The Soft Machine in 1966. After being refused entry back in the UK in 68, he moved to Paris and co-founded Gong, a band with which he has been mostly associated, and in which he has been a member and leader on and off ever since.

Daevid's latest Gong release is 2014's excellent I See You.

Innerspace Want to Kickstart New Album

Canadian prog band Innerspace is currently putting the finishing touches on the writing of their second album. Having spent almost two years writing they have ended up with material for a double album that they consider more mature, showing both skill and experience.

And now they ask for your help.

Knowing that they need a minimum of $5,000 to record their next album, and knowing that Kickstarter only pays up only when the goal is reached, they ask for $2,000, hoping that fans of the first album will likely spend in advance for the new double album. As of today there are 52 days left, and their goal is nearly reached. There are a variety of rewards that can be pledged, including signed copies of the CD and getting your name mentioned in the CD booklet.

Their first release, The Village, received critical acclaim, and they hope to surpass expectations with this second album.

Innerspace are: Phil Burton (guitars & vocals), Simon Arsenault (lead guitars), Paul Aubry (keyboards), and Thomas Sauvé (drums).

Pledge on Kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/924372470/innerspaces-2nd-album-0

Band website:
http://www.innerspace-band.com/home.html

King Crimson Confirm 2015 Tour

Following their acclaimed tour of America in 2014, King Crimson returns to active service in 2015 for a series of performances across the UK and in Europe.

Starting in Aylesbury at the end of August, King Crimson will be touring throughout September in the UK, France, and the Netherlands.

As with the US Tour of 2014, this will be the Drum Trio incarnation of KC and will feature a set list peppered with long standing classics of all eras and incarnations of the band. There is also talk of new material being readied for an eventual new CD.

European Tour dates:
31 Aug - Friars, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
1 Sept - Friars, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
3 Sept - St.David’s Hall, Cardiff
5 Sept - Dome Concert Hall, Brighton
7 Sept - Hackney Empire, London
8 Sept - Hackney Empire, London
11 Sept - Lowry, Manchester,
14 Sept - Symphony Hall,Birmingham
17 Sept - Usher Hall, Edinburgh
21 Sept - Olympia, Paris
22 Sept - Olympia, Paris
24 Sept - Tivoliredenburg, Utrecht
25 Sept - Tivoliredenburg, Utrecht

King Crimson is: Mel Collins, Robert Fripp, Gavin Harrison, Jakko Jakszyk, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto and Bill Rieflin.

Tickets go on sale this Friday February 6 and are available from Livenation, except for tickets for the Aylesbury shows that can be obtained here .

Two Rare Live Albums by Renaissance to Be Released

Cleopatra Records will be releasing two rare live albums by UK progressive rock legends Renaissance. The first release on February 3rd is DeLane Lea Studios 1973; a captivating live-in-the-studio recording from Renaissance performing to a small gathering of friends at the historic DeLane Lea Studios in London (used by everyone from The Beatles to Queen, Jimi Hendrix & Pink Floyd). Beguiling vocalist Annie Haslam leads her group through nearly the entire fourth album Ashes Are Burning with special guest appearances by Wishbone Ash's Andy Powell and folk singer Al Stewart.

DeLane Lea Studios 1973 track list:
1. Can You Understand
2. Let It Grow
3. Sounds of the Sea
4. Carpet of the Sun
5. At the Harbour
6. Ashes Are Burning (with Andy Powell and Al Stewart)
7. Prologue

Renaissance's Academy of Music 1974 will be released on March 31st and is an astonishing live performance of the ensemble at the height of their career. The concert showcases the band's latest release at the time Ashes Are Burning. Unlike other prog-rock groups, Renaissance forwent much of the technology in favor of acoustic instruments and orchestral arrangements. Electric guitars and synthesizers were seldom used, giving the band's music more of a symphonic sound.

Academy of Music 1974 track list:
CD1
1. Can You Understand
2. Black Flame
3. Carpet of the Sun
4. Cold Is Being
5. Things I Don’t Understand
6. Running Hard
CD2
1. Ashes Are Burning
2. Mother Russia
3. Prologue

To purchase Renaissance DeLane Lea Studios 1973 CD: http://geni.us/1fQp
iTunes: http://geni.us/1oAT

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www.CleopatraRecords.com