Yes, it’s been eerily quiet on the Somewhere front, but we’re still a going concern. After releasing Lullaby…, we started working on recording the album in spring. We had our debut gig lined up for the summer, at the Lidköping Art Rock Festival.
Unfortunately, our bass player Mattias decided that he could not devote as much time to Somewhere as would be required, so he left us – all quite amicably, and we’re still good friends.
However, that left us hunting for a new bass player. We were lucky to eventually find an excellent replacement in Johan Nyberg, who has played with our guitarist Fredrik off and on for years, so they know each other well.
At that point, we did not want to force Johan so simply learn Mattias’s parts, but decided to step back a bit and allow him to influence the music with his own style. It’s a decision that has payed off in spades musically, but it has slowed our progress (heh) somewhat.
So, fall rolls around, and we’re back on track when…our guitarist Fredrik is in an accident, hurting his left hand quite severely. At this point he is more or less recovered, so after the new year, we will be focusing on moving forward.
We still hope that we can play our first gig at the Lidköping Art Rock Festival, albeit a year late, and to also be on stage for the Sweden Prog Fest in the fall of 2013. Either way, the album – still titled Magnitizdat – will be worked on and hopefully available before the first of those gigs.
Anyway, thanks for looking in, and please feel free to comment below. EVery comment gives us that much more energy to complete the first of what we hope will be a series of progtastic albums.
And now, Lullaby for the Common Man is available for download from Soundcloud. You will find it on the left in the sidebar. You can listen to it straight from there, or go directly to the site to download it for yourself and leave comments. Enjoy.
Our new single/video is finally completed. With Christopher Lee playing the role of The High Priest, George Montgomery as The Uncommon Man and a cameo from Rock Hudson as The Scientist.
Next up in the band member introduction stakes is our drummer Paul.
In an earlier post on spam I mentioned how so much of it tries to flatter you into approving a comment. Well, it seems the spammers now have a new angle: insults. Fifteen or so spam comments have come in during the last 24 hours saying that I’m obviously dumb for not making money off of this site.
While that next single, Lullaby for the Common Man, is being finalized, we’ll take the time to present the members of the band, one by one. We’ll do this from youngest to oldest, from not yet twenty to almost fifty. First up, the guy that made the band complete, our keyboard player Jacob.
Thank you for all the kind comments already received on Progmas 2011. Also, thanks to all who’ve bought the iProg t-shirt. It really has taken off in a big way and is our fastest seller, with orders already going out to the US, UK and Germany.
We’re still hard at work mixing the audio and editing the video for Lullaby for the Common Man (which will actually star Christopher Lee).
Here’s a pic I made and didn’t use in the new video, since I didn’t want to repeat occurrences of Pink Floyd, who are only tangentially a prog band anyway.
The rest of the reworked covers and background images can be found at the Progmas 2011 gallery. Hit the thumbnail to come to the image page, and then from there click the image again to get it full-size. Tarkus and both Fragile Christmas Tree Decorations are of suitable size for desktop wallpaper (the old one is 4:3, the new one widescreen).
At the risk of becoming a one-trick pony, Somewhere decided to retackle The 12 Days of Christmas in a prog style because there were some ideas we didn’t have time to incorporate last time around. This time, the music directly references some of our heroes and the video is more consistently designed.
We’ll follow it up with our second single, Lullaby for the Common Man, in a few weeks. Things are definitely brewing in the Somewhere camp.
