Music news: Emmy Award winning Phil Naro on the new Corvus Stone album

• Posted by Corvus Stone on July 6, 2014 at 3:12am
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Emmy Award winning vocalist and MRR (Melodic Revolution Records) recording artist Phil Naro of Backhand, DDrive, CTP, & Druckfarben has just been confirmed as a guest musician on the upcoming Corvus Stone II album, other guests include:
Sean Filkins: Solo artist and formerly of Big Big Train,
Victor Tassone: Unified Past & Andy John Bradford's Oceans5,
Stef Flaming: Murky Red, Transmission Rails & Andy John Bradford's Oceans5.

Corvus Stone is:
Pasi Koivu - Keyboards,
Colin Tench - Guitar,
Petri Lemmy Lindström - Bass,
Robert Wolff - Drums,
Blake Carpenter: Vocals.

http://www.bunchakeze.com/Corvus_Stone_II.php

PHIL NARO


http://mrrmusic.com/phil-naro/
http://philnaro.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phil-Naro/118077088259889
http://www.myspace.com/philnaro
http://powerofprog.com/profile/PhilNaro

This information was put together by Raven Pihonak of Silver Raven Promotions. Thank you very much, Raven! 

Of those Corvus Stone members we can also mention Petri Lemmy Lindström's band PROGELAND is soon releasing its debut full-length CD (also on Melodic Revolution Records)! Progeland is highly recommended to those who enjoy bands like King Crimson, Opeth or Uriah Heep (to name a few). 

Corvus Stone - the debut album on Levykauppa Äx or Melodic Revolution Shop, Hard Progressive Rock

Who is Corvus Stone

Corvus Stone is an international Rock band strongly related to Progressive Rock and Hard Rock. You can also hear some World Music, Classical, Soundtrack, Jazz and Metal!

Corvus Stone is:
Colin Tench (guitar), Pasi Koivu (keyboards)
Petri Lemmy Lindström (bass)
Robert Wolff (drums)
Blake Carpenter (vocals)
Sonia Mota (artwork)

On the song "Purple Stone" there's a wonderful special guest Andres Guazzelli (vocals). "Purple Stone" is a some kind of tribute to the great Deep Purple.

I am the following; a

Fan of Music, Band, Musician, Song Writer

Style of Prog

Art Rock, Avant-Prog, Progressive Rock, Symphonic Rock, Canterbury Prog, Progressive Metal, Crossover Prog, Progressive Jazz/Fusion, Also a fan of other genres of music

Biography

Pasi Koivu (keyboards), Colin Tench (guitar) and Petri Lemmy Lindström (bass) started this studio project in late 2011 almost accidentally.
The found out they can work together very easily.



Petri Lemmy Lindström is an ex-member of Lyijykomppania and he has his own (highly acclaimed) music projects called Saturn Twilight and Progeland.

Colin Tench played with Odin (of London) alongside John Culley (ex-Cressida, ex-Black Widow) and after that he was one of the key members of BunChakeze (their 1980's recordings have finally been released for critical praise).
At the moment Colin has his own Colin Tench Project (CTP).

Pasi Koivu has been involved with promoting Black Widow (that's how he got to know Colin) and he also had his own Pasi Koivu ~ Psychedelic Eye one man solo project (with three albums released).

Now there has been some great addings to the Corvus Stone line-up! We have brilliant musicians Blake Carpenter (The Minstrel's Ghost) on vocals and Robert Wolff (ex-Micah, ex-Raven) on drums.
We have Sonia Mota creating the most amazing artwork for us! Sonia is a big part of the band.

We have Stef Flaming (Murky Red) guesting on a song JussiPussi (Stef also wrote that song).

We have Victor Tassone (Unified Past) playing drums on "You're So Wrong".

We have John Culley (ex-Cressida, ex-Black Widow) on guitar on our cover version of Black Widow's "You're So Wrong"!

Melodic Revolution Records has released some Corvus Stone music as digital singles.

The full debut album (CD version) simply called "Corvus Stone" was released at the end of 2012! Over 79 minutes worth of music. It's a digipak including a 16 page booklet! The stunning artwork is by Sonia Mota and the album is out via Melodic Revolution Records.

Influences or Favorite Bands

Various influences.... Pink Floyd, Nektar, BunChakeze, Progeland, Cressida, Black Widow, Opeth, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Murky Red, Unified Past, Uriah Heep, Pain Of Salvation, Caravan, Camel, Soft Machine

You can find me.

http://facebook.com/CorvusStone
http://www.reverbnation.com/corvusstone
http://www.myspace.com/corvusstone

More info;

Corvus Stone - "Purple Stone" single (Melodic Revolution Records) was released in 2013. The song will be featured on the 2nd Corvus Stone album.
The debut Corvus Stone album was released as a CD version during late 2012 via Melodic Revolution Records. You can buy the album here:http://www.recordshopx.com/artist/corvus_stone/corvus_stone/ or here:http://melodicrevolutionrecords.com/album/corvus-stone
You can buy the single here:http://melodicrevolutionrecords.com/track/purple-stone-bonus-track

The physical copy of the album is available on many great record stores like Black Widow Records (Italy), Musea (France) or Diskunion (Japan). If your local record shop doesn't have the album you can easily ask them to order few copies!

Corvus Stone is an international Rock band strongly related to Progressive Rock and Hard Rock. You can also hear some World Music, Classical, Soundtrack, Jazz and Metal!
Corvus Stone is: Colin Tench (guitar), Pasi Koivu (keyboards), Petri Lemmy Lindström (bass), Robert Wolff (drums), Blake Carpenter (vocals) and Sonia Mota (artwork).
On the song "Purple Stone" there's a wonderful special guest Andres Guazzelli (vocals). "Purple Stone" is a some kind of tribute to the great Deep Purple.

Informaatiota suomeksi:
Corvus Stone on kansainvälinen yhtye jonka debyyttilevy "Corvus Stone" (Melodic Revolution Records) ilmestyi CD-versiona loppuvuodesta 2012. Sävellyksellinen pesäpaikka ensilevyllä on Suomi ja Jyväskylä sillä yhtyeen jyväskyläläiset jäsenet ovat Petri Lemmy Lindström (basso) ja Pasi Koivu (koskettimet). Lisäksi mukana ovat Blake Carpenter (laulu), Colin Tench (kitara), Robert Wolff (rummut) ja Sonia Mota (kansitaide).
Erikoisvieraana laulussa "Purple Stone" on Andres Guazzelli (laulu).
Esikoisalbumia löytyy vielä jonkin verran Suomesta, ainakin Levykauppa Äx myy sitä. Voit ostaa levyn täältä:http://www.levykauppax.fi/artist/corvus_stone/corvus_stone/#cd

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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Hard rocking surprise - Jerry Lucky reviews Corvus Stone (hard, heavy and gentle flirting with Progressive Rock)

"Corvus Stone creates its own little mini-movie with its own ebb and flow of emotions".

Jerry Lucky - a true legend - has reviewed Corvus Stone. Read it yourself here: http://www.jerrylucky.com/reviews-abc_013.htm

You propably want to check Jerry's site www.jerrylucky.com - you'll find lots of interesting reviews! There are also links showing the way how to order the books Jerry has written!

Corvus Stone will release its second album in 2014. The sound is very original but we can reveal the music will appeal to the fans of Von Hertzen Brothers, ELP (Emerson Lake and Palmer), Opeth, Camel, Deep Purple, Kingston Wall, Uriah Heep, Progeland, Moonwagon, Murky Red and King Crimson (to name a few!).