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Corvus Stone II to feature Sean Filkins, Phil Naro & German Vergara

• Posted by Corvus Stone on August 6, 2014 at 8:05am
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Corvus Stone II To Feature Sean Filkins, Phil Naro & German Vergara

• Posted by Melodic Revolution Records on August 4, 2014 at 7:12pm
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Critically Acclaimed Avant Garde Proggers Corvus Stone Return With Highly Anticipated 2nd Album Corvus Stone II, Featuring Special Guest Appearances by Sean Filkins, Phil Naro & German Vergara.

Corvus Stone is best known as an Avant Garde Studio Prog band featuring members from all over the globe. The band has been very busy since the release of their critically acclaimed debut album in 2012.

Like the first album, Corvus Stone II will feature a jam packed 80 minute CD once again housed in a beautiful Digipak with a colorful booklet both designed by Sonia Mota. The CD will feature 16 glorious tracks to spark ones imagination and even satisfy unbelievers that Corvus Stone is a force to be reckoned with and is here to stay.

Track listing is as follows:  The Simple Life, Sneaky Entrance In To Lisa, Early Morning Call, Boots For Hire, Purple Stone, A Stoned Crow Meets The Rusty Wolff Rat, Lisa Has A Cigar, Mr. Cha Cha, Eternal Universe, Uncle Schunkle, Dark Tower, Mystery Man, Scandinavians in Mexico, Camelus Bactrianus, Moaning Lisa and Campfire.

Corvus Stone Return With Classic Lineup:
Colin Tench: Guitars, Petri Lemmy Lindström: Bass, Pasi Koivu: Keyboards and the newest addition to the outfit is Robert Wolff:  Drums & Percussion.

Once Again The Album Will Feature Some Very Special Guests:
Emmy award vocalist Phil Naro (Talas, Backhand, Druckfarben), Sean Filkins: Vocals (Solo & Big Big Train) German Vergara: Vocals (Aisles) plus many other vocal guests, some things are best kept a secret. The album will also feature some returning guests: Blake Carpenter: Vocals (The Minstrel’s Ghost, Voice of the Enslaved) Victor Tassone: Percussion (Unified Past, Andy John Bradford’s Oceans 5) Andres Guazzelli: Vocals (CTP/Colin Tench Project, Solo).

In conjunction with the upcoming release the band have launched a brand new website, a promo video for the first single “Scandinavians in Mexico” and have made the album available as a preorder.

Further information can be found at:
Official Website: http://www.corvusstone.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorvusStone
Power of Prog: http://powerofprog.com/profile/CorvusStone
Melodic Revolution Records: http://melodicrevolution.com/


Video “Scandinavians in Mexico” ð https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKnyx1xPwmM
Sampler Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePMKOE7rUL8
Album Preorder: http://melodicrevolutionrecords.com/album/corvus-stone-ii http://mrrcorvusstone.bandcamp.com/

Corvus Stone album review on Get Ready To Rock - one of the best reviews

Corvus Stone album review on Get Ready To Rock: "Great Stuff"

• Posted by Corvus Stone on December 24, 2013 at 5:32am
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Corvus Stone is:

Colin Tench (guitar),

Pasi Koivu (keyboards),

Petri Lemmy Lindström (bass),

Robert Wolff (drums),

Blake Carpenter (vocals),

Sonia Mota (artwork)

On the debut album there are special guests like Stef Flaming (many instruments and voices on "JussiPussi"), John Culley (guitar on "You're So Wrong") and Victor Tassone (drums on "You're So Wrong").

On the second album there'll be special guest stars again! Andres Guazzelli shares vocals with Blake on "Purple Stone ("Purple Stone" already has over 500,000 views on YouTube!) and The Airwaves (band from Sweden) has also been invited to add some vocal harmonies.

Here below you'll see the review by Alan Jones. We hope you'll enjoy it and the CD as well! We also hope you'll enjoy the next album maybe even more as we feel it's an improvement (the album will be released during 2014).

CORVUS STONE - Corvus Stone

(Melodic Revolution Records)

Melodic Revolution Records: Released November 2012

I do a radio show for Get Ready To Rock Radio (third Sunday of the month at 5pm -you should check it out!) that goes by the name of ‘The Eclectic Mix’ – which pretty much does what it says on the tin and draws together a load of great tracks from an assortment of genres.

For the next show I think I’ll save myself the effort of compiling a tracklist and just play this album in its entirety.

Corvus Stone is a disparate group of fiendishly talented musicians from places such as Sweden, Finland, United States, Belgium and others, who have put together an album of such stunning complex diversity it’s hard to believe they all recorded their parts separately and emailed them in to be mixed and mastered.

The album is eighty minutes long. It has an amazing 21 tracks. It is, in turns, deep, shallow, frivolous, cinematic, dense, serious, hilarious.

Whilst always having progressive rock at its heart, one glance at the tracklist is enough to tell anybody this is going to be a roller-coaster ride.

With track titles such as ‘October Sad Song’, ‘After Solstice’, ‘Ice King’ and ‘Lost And Found’, the prog credentials are laid out for all to see – but then what to make of titles such as ‘Moron Season’, ‘Moustaches In Massachusetts’, ‘Iron Pillows’ and ‘Ten Inch Lisa’? Or what about ‘Intermission’, ‘The Rusty Wolff Attack’, ‘Scary Movie’ and the wonderfully titled ‘JussiPussi’?

The answer is not an easy one. There are just so many influences here that it’s difficult to take it all in at one sitting. You think you’re listening to Camel, this segues into an Emerson, Lake and Palmer groove, but then is that Focus I hear? Or a bit of Gentle Giant? Maybe even a soupcon of the Grateful Dead. But that’s definitely the Bonzo Dog Band – then the riff from ‘Smoke On The Water’ appears for chrissakes.

To say the album sustains interest throughout is understating just what it is – that being a genre-bending tour de force that has the listener eagerly anticipating the next track to find out if it’s as great as the one being listened to.

All kinds of highlights all over the piece – the surpisingly progressive ‘Moron Season’, the dense title track ‘Corvus Stone’, the outstanding fretwork on the instrumental ‘Moustaches In Massachusetts’, the (ahem) cinematic sweep of ‘Cinema’ and the totally immersive ‘Scary Movie’.

And how could we forget to mention the Bonzoesque exuberance of ‘JussiPussi’? It really is as great as it sounds – and I defy you not to laugh.

All told, this is a fabulous album. It has a dark side for sure, but the sheer flamboyancy of the playing coupled with an almost self-deprecating ‘joie de vivre’ is an absolute joy and I, for one, could begin to understand just what it feels like to be a ‘mad, swivel-eyed loon’ at the album’s conclusion.

Great stuff.

*****

Review by Alan Jones

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Corvus Stone members Colin Tench and Pasi Koivu interviewed on Progstravaganza website

Hello!

Corvus Stone members Colin Tench and Pasi Koivu have been interviewed. Read it yourself: Corvus Stone interview on Progstravaganza website

The next CORVUS STONE album - new songs are being written and recorded

Hello!

I thought to tell some updates! You have not heard new Corvus Stone songs for ages but we have tons of stuff!

We've been writing and recording songs like crazy (especially here in Finland). I, for example, always think my parts have been recorded for the forthcoming album. Then something happens and we have a new song again. 

At the moment we have one song by Colin Tench (guitar) and at least six songs by Petri Lemmy Lindström (bass). I don't even remember how many songs I wrote.

Robert Wolff's drums are just perfect for us! I have Micah's 1971 album and it's awesome (Robert is on drums)!

I'm also really looking for some more fine vocal work by Blake Carpenter! He's a busy musician with many projects. I cannot believe how brilliant he is!

Now we also have a special guest Andres Guazzelli on one song. He's also a brilliant musician. They are all brilliant musicians. Colin, for example, has so many album releases it's impossible to remember all of his projects. 

Petri just signed a deal with Melodic Revolution Records! Congratulations! Progeland is a fantastic band! You'll love the album, Nick!!!!

About music: what kind of music you'll hear on the next Corvus Stone album? There's almost everything. But it'll be an improvement. 

The crazy thing is we have new stuff for almost two new albums!

See you again! Many thanks for your support!

PASI KOIVU (keyboards/Corvus Stone)

P.S. I'm sure we've recorded a cover version of Murky Red song (with Stef Flaming helping). Is it still a secret?