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.

Please enjoy Lullaby for the Common Man.

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.

Yeah. Because that was the goal all along.

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).

Happy proglidays!

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.