Eclipse Sol-Air
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Forum Name: Suggest New Bands and Artists
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Topic: Eclipse Sol-Air
Posted By: King Manuel
Subject: Eclipse Sol-Air
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 01:10
What!? I did not find Eclipse Sol-Air on Progarchives.
Got their debut CD "Bartok´s Crisis" as a present from my brother and was blown away!
Here some links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apDbpfdGXJs" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apDbpfdGXJs
http://www.myspace.com/eclipsesolair" rel="nofollow - www.myspace.com/eclipsesolair
http://www.eclipse-sol-air.com" rel="nofollow - www.eclipse-sol-air.com
Please include them in the Prog Archives! ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
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Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 05:08
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Magnificent Eclectic Prog, your Majesty!!! - These guys (and gals) just HAVE to be added - and soon!! Here is the tube referred to in King Manuel's o.p. embedded, plus a few more that I found. This final Video shows parts of all the band's three albums:- "The Dark Side Guide", "Bartok's Crisis" and the new album "Schizophilia" (anticipated release July 2012). One of the characteristics of the band`s songs are the different languages used - even in one song! In this video you will find extracts from: 1. Warum (from "Schizophilia") - German 2. Rumänen (from "Bartok's Crisis") - Croatian/English 3. Asylum (from "Schizophilia") - English/German 4. Waiting for you (from "Bartok's Crisis") - French/English 5. Part IV (from "The Dark Side Guide")- English 6. Phantome Violin-Solo (from "Bartok's Crisis") I think this band is something rather special.
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Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 05:16
 Happy you agree with me, yam yam! Thanks for the upload of those links!------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: sky watcher
Date Posted: May 12 2012 at 11:59
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King Manuel and Yam Yam, thank you for paying attention to this new band. If you have more interests on it, I could tell you more about them. There are really fantastic. But, Yam Yam, you seem to know them some more (you talked about their 3 albums). Do you have some "connections"? |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: May 12 2012 at 14:40
Welcome to progarchives, sky watcher  I hope you enjoy the site, and all it has to offer to the average prog-lover!! I don't personally have any connections with Eclipse Sol-Air, or indeed any other bands on here - past, present, or future, I wouldn't imagine. I had never even heard of Eclipse Sol-Air until King Manuel posted them in this thread, so a big 'thank you' from me to him for introducing me to their wonderful music.  I spend a lot of time on here looking for new artists to check out, and finding out as much about them as I can, which I then try to share with others on the site via this forum. Everything I know about Eclipse Sol-Air was obtained from about 20 minutes of searches via google on the Internet just a few days ago. I sincerely hope that the collabs who monitor this forum will now pass the band on to the appropriate team for evaluation, and that a speedy addition to the archives will follow, because they most definitely belong here! Anything more you can add to help the team with the writing of a biography for their eventual page on here would be very much appreciated.
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Posted By: sky watcher
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 05:00
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Well, let me just mention some important dates and facts concerning the band:
2003: Eclipse Sol-Air was born after Philippe has written an ad like “search for musicians in order to build up a revolutionary band”. Soon, some young mad boys and girls dared to take the challenge by involving themselves in a project called “The Dark Side Guide”. 2005-6: they won the first price on each regional rock-contest they participated in (Alteglofsheim, Villapark, MaxiDSL 2008 ...). To celebrate all those victories, they made a little slide show and a kind of joke-clip accompanied by their music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wF_o2RneRrg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wF_o2RneRrg http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2717433/going_to_hell_part3_eclipse_sol_air" rel="nofollow - http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2717433/going_to_hell_part3_eclipse_sol_air After that, they begun to work on a second album called “Bartok's Crisis”. But this period of time was rather unstable, cause many member changes took place. 2010: the situation has stabilized and they got a manager to drive them forwards. Big success stories came then up: the biggest web side on prog reviews had added them in their list with a note 12/15: http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/album_11960.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/album_11960.html Another one, did the same with a note 16/20: http://www.musikansich.de/review.php?id=11112" rel="nofollow - http://www.musikansich.de/review.php?id=11112 And even a japanese site found them: As well as some good articles in prog online and paper magazines... 2011: they recorded and released “Bartok's Crisis” on an LP disk as well as a CD. They wanted to let the LP cover be drawn by an artist (Anna Kotarska), so that we also enjoy it visually. That's the one King .. got from his brother ;) BTW, Philippe also got a gift from his brother Alexandre: “waiting for you” themes were written by Alex (yam yam's video 1 in a short version and 7 in the long one). You can judge by yourself Alex's talent; here is his interpretation of a rock version of Pachelbel's “Canon in D”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXyRubH3YuI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXyRubH3YuI Back to ESA. A dramatic stuff happened: a drunkard on drive killed Anna Kotarska. That caused much pain all around. And on that occasion the musicians express their feelings by writing a song. The result is shown on yam yam's video 6. Now, what are the next steps:
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Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: June 02 2013 at 01:46
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Schizophilia, the new Eclipse Sol-Air is out. Produced by Eloy's Frank Bornemann it is a bit more focused that the first one and the production is clear and powerful. All in all not a disappointment.
However what is a bit disappointing, I still can't find this great band in the Prog Archives! ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: June 02 2013 at 03:40
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This thread was apparently missed a year or so ago by the New Suggestions Team of the time - that's why this band is still not on Progarchives. The guy looking after New Suggestions at the moment though is certainly 'on the ball', and I don't think we need fear this happening again. I'd forgotten all about this suggestion to be totally honest with you, so thanks a lot for 'bumping' the thread today.
Edit: Some info about the 'Schizophilia' album: 1. Once Upon a Time (7:25) 2. Destiny of Freedom (4:28) 3. My Heart Belongs to You (5:17) 4. Asylum (5:09) 5. Watch Over You (9:36) 6. Lydian legend (4:28) 7. Schizophilia (8:11) 8. Final Time (6:40) Total time 51:14 Mireille Vicogne / vocals & flute Automatic-Philippe Arnauld of the Lions / vocals, piano & keyboards Agatha Sörgel / violin Fritz Hoffmeister / guitar Benno Schultheiss / bass David Bücherl / drums & percussion http://www.gogoyoko.com/#/album/Schizophilia" rel="nofollow - http://www.gogoyoko.com/#/album/Schizophilia http://open.spotify.com/album/7CSd3TxpelbuvlxBWkyMGU" rel="nofollow - http://open.spotify.com/album/7CSd3TxpelbuvlxBWkyMGU Edit: Removed embedded YouTube video which was dead due to uploader having his account terminated.
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: June 02 2013 at 06:12
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Oh my giddy aunt, this is so good! ''Schizophilia'' and ''Bartok's Crisis'' already ordered from Amazon. A real shame that this suggestion has been overlooked for so long but obviously the band will still need to go through the usual process for addition, which will surely be a formality. As they have a new album just released it would be nice if we could expedite their addition but I'm afraid it might take a little while longer.
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Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: June 02 2013 at 09:37
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Thanks, seventhsojourn, I have send a short mail to the band. Lets hope they assist by supplying the necessary stuff required for the addition. ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: June 05 2013 at 09:11
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Sent to us in Crossover for evaluation. You can follow the progress here: http://progfreak.com/Eclipse-Sol-Air-156612.html?path=pa/recent" rel="nofollow - http://progfreak.com/Eclipse-Sol-Air-156612.html?path=pa/recent .
Edit: Rob has since listened to the samples, and said that he will add the band to Eclectic's chart for an initial evaluation there. I have thus removed them again from the Crossover chart for now - they will be re-added if Eclectic's final verdict is a 'move' to Crossover.
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Posted By: TheFish
Date Posted: June 08 2013 at 17:33
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 11:34
Male vocals are really painful  female vocals lack power. The music is ok, but Skyclad did it before them.------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 12:31
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What's your point caller?
Anyway, recently moved from Eclectic to Metal for their opinion.
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Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: December 12 2013 at 13:09
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And their opinion was 'move' to Crossover, where the band was just recently (and quite swiftly) cleared.
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 12 2013 at 13:37
and quite rightly so 
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