The Spacelords are clearly well versed in their cosmic craft and have created something really captivating here it's a very easy album to sit back and just allow it to carry you off into the cosmos, while also being something for fans of hard rock to appreciate. The Spacelords were founded in spring 2008 by Matthias Hazi Wettstein (guitar), Marcus Schnitzler (drums), and Klaus Werz (bass). Liquid Sun will no doubt continue to stand out as one of 2016's biggest surprises for me the kind of album that comes out of nowhere and ends up ranking among the year's best releases. ![]() With just three songs their writing tends towards a longer mark on Liquid Sun, but even with some aspects of the music repeating many times over as they move their compositions forward I don't feel as if any ideas outstay their welcome. This is more evident in the second and third of the album's three tracks than in the opening title track, which features a gradually building atmosphere that initially gives no clue about the band's hard rock influences but steadily increases in heaviness until it fully emerges in its latter stages and from there until the album's conclusion The Spacelords find a perfect balance between spacey atmosphere and delivering some great riffs as well. While The Spacelords primarily play space rock, they can actually be pretty heavy and hard rocking while doing so. That's why, for me at least, an artist such as Germany's The Spacelords are a rare find an instrumental artist who not only enthral with their music, but do it in such a way that adding any sort of vocals to it would most likely ruin the entire experience. Note: Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut, the first human in outer space and th read more. I got in touch with the band and Marcus answered my questions.As much as a good instrumental section can really get me going on an album, I rarely find myself too interested by fully instrumental releases. Yuri Gagarin is a space rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden. Their eponymous debut album was distributed via an Italian independent label BTF in 2010. He highlighted the music on the first CD with his flute and stayed with the band until end of 2009. The 4th Spacelord Reinhold (flute) came into the band in May 2008. His precise and groovy bass playing makes The SPACELORDS' style possible. After more than 20 years playing the guitar, he began on the bass guitar in 2006. Marcus, who's traveling to west Africa since 1991, to study traditional rhythms, but is also into psychedelic music for over 25 years, Matthias, influenced by his trips to India since the seventies and playing his guitar for more than 3 decades, and Klaus, who first started 1978 in Russia as a drummer, but then changed soon to his favourite instrument - the guitar. After more than 20 years playing the guitar, he began on the bass guitar in 2006. As the ideas came so quick and the feeling was there from the first moment, it was clear: Even each of them had his own personal style and background, they had found a common sense in music. Matthias and Klaus already had a few song-ideas and after a couple of weeks almost half of the first CD was arranged. ![]() The SPACELORDS started in April 2008, when Marcus SCHNITZLER (drums, djembe, percussion, special effects) joined Matthias WETTSTEIN (guitars) and Klaus WERZ (bass) for a first session.
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