Thursday, October 17, 2024

NEAL MORSE & THE RESONANCE ANNOUNCE NEW RELEASE ‘NO HILL FOR A CLIMBER’ AND LAUNCH FIRST SINGLE “ALL THE RAGE’ EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL EVENT ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS WITH RAY SHASHO!

 


NEAL MORSE

AND THE RESONANCE

 ANNOUNCE NEW RELEASE

 ‘NO HILL FOR A CLIMBER' 

AND LAUNCH FIRST SINGLE 

“ALL THE RAGE"

 EXCLUSIVE ZOOM SPECIAL EVENT 

ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS 

WITH RAY SHASHO

CLICK BELOW

 TO WATCH THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW!


Faithful to any Neal Morse prog album, ‘No Hill for A Climber’ features two epics (the 28 minutes ‘No Hill For A Climber’ and ‘Eternity In Your Eyes’, which clocks in at 22 minutes) as well as three shorter songs: ‘Ever Interceding’, ‘All The Rage’ and ‘Thief’. The latter, Morse admits, is his current favorite: “It’s so different… it’s in all these different sections, and I’m really happy with the way each part has come out. It’s pretty crazy.
There’s even a really cool King Crimson-style instrumental bit in the middle that Chris Riley originally came up with at the Radiant School a couple of years ago.” For all of these reasons, Morse believes that the whole album is unique, but notes that “if I was going to compare its structure to an album I've done in the past, it might be along the lines of ‘Bridge Across Forever’ or Spock's Beard’s ‘V’; it’s not that it sounds at all like those albums, it’s just structurally similar. It has voices and playing styles and soundscapes that many people will have never heard before!
Everyone you work with changes you a ittle bit, so even I sound a little different on this one, but I hope that everyone will love it!” Throughout his long career, Neal Morse has often been a musical collaborator, usually with some of the greatest prog musicians across the world. This time, Morse has brought that collaborative spirit closer to home. The new album by Neal Morse & The Resonance – entitled ‘No Hill for A Climber’ will be released  November 8th, 2024, and the title is taken from a resonant line in Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead. Neal Morse is an American singer, musician and composer based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1992, he formed the progressive rock band Spock's Beard with his brother Alan and released an album which was moderately successful. In 1999, he joined Dream Theater's co-founder and then drummer Mike Portnoy, together with Flower Kings' Roine Stolt and Marillion's Pete Trewavas they formed the super-group Transatlantic. 
In 2002, Neal Morse became a born-again Christian, left Spock's Beard and began a Christian rock solo career, releasing many progressive rocks concept albums about his new religious faith. In the meantime, he continued to play with Transatlantic and formed three new bands with Portnoy, Yellow Matter Custard, Flying Colors and The Neal Morse Band. One of his most recent projects included two critically acclaimed solo releases with D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings.

PREORDER

NEAL MORSE

AND

 THE RESONANCE




NO HILL

 FOR 

A CLIMBER



OFFICALLY RELEASED NOVEMBER 8TH

Pre-order now here: https://nealmorse.lnk.to/NoHillForAClimber


To coincide with the announcement, 

the track  ‘All The Rage’ 

has been launched with a brand new video. 

Watch it now here:

https://youtu.be/BSXjvdHqADk?si=F_0g0Inzs48UoJvy


"Awesome album! 

I can safely say this will be 

a fave of the year for me!” 

– Mike Portnoy


“Neal Morse does it again with a brilliant new release entitled ‘No Hill for A Climber.’ Morse invited a divergent group of local musicians to record, and the end product was epic. Simply, this album has all the fundamentals needed for a Grammy and best album of the year.”

5 STARS!

-By Music Journalist Ray Shasho


 FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

NEAL MORSE

& RADIANT RECORDS

VISIT

https://nealmorse.com/

Official website

https://nealmorse.com/morsefest-2024-2025/

Morsefest official website

https://www.facebook.com/nealmorse/

Facebook

https://x.com/nealmorse

Twitter

https://www.instagram.com/neal_morse_official

Instagram

https://www.youtube.com/user/NealMorseMusic/featured

YouTube

 

TOUR DATES

November 8, 2024 - November 9, 2024

White House, TN

Morsefest 2024 USA @ New Life Fellowship

November 15, 2024 - November 16, 2024

Zoetermeer, The Netherlands

Morsefest 2024 EU @ De Boerderij

January 17, 2025 - January 18, 2025

Brentwood, London, UK

Morsefest 2025 UK @ Trinity Church

 

NEAL MORSE

Discography

With Spock's Beard

The Light (1995)

Beware of Darkness (1996)

The Kindness of Strangers (1998)

Day for Night (1999)

V (2000)

Snow (2002)

Singer-songwriter albums

Neal Morse (1999)

It's Not Too Late (2002)

Songs from the Highway (2007)

Songs from November (2014)

Life & Times (2018)

Late Bloomer (2024)

with Neal Morse & The Resonance

No Hill for a Climber (2024)

Prog albums

Testimony (2003)

One (2004)

? (2005)

Sola Scriptura (2007)

Lifeline (2008)

Testimony 2 (2011)

Momentum (2012)

Jesus Christ the Exorcist (2019)

Sola Gratia (2020)

The Dreamer: Joseph, Part One (2023)

The Restoration: Joseph, Part Two (2024)

Worship albums

Lead Me Lord (Worship Sessions Volume 1) (2005)

God Won't Give Up (2005)

Send the Fire (Worship Sessions Volume 2) (2006)

Secret Place (Worship Sessions Volume 3) (2008)

The River (Worship Sessions Volume 4) (2009)

Mighty to Save (Worship Sessions Volume 5) (2010)

Get in the Boat (2013)

To God Be the Glory (2016)

Last Minute Christmas Album (2020)

With Transatlantic

SMPT:e (2000)

Bridge Across Forever (2001)

The Whirlwind (2009)

Kaleidoscope (2014)

The Absolute Universe (2021)

With Flying Colors

Flying Colors (2012)

Second Nature (2014)

Third Degree (2019)

With The Neal Morse Band

The Grand Experiment (2015)

The Similitude of a Dream (2016)

The Great Adventure (2019)

Innocence & Danger (2021)

With Morse, Portnoy & George

Cover to Cover (2006)

Cover 2 Cover (2012)

Cov3r to Cov3r (2020)

With D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings

Troika (2022)

Sophomore (2023)

Live albums

? Live (2007)

So Many Roads: Live in Europe (2009)

Testimony 2: Live in Los Angeles (2011)

Live Momentum (2013)

Morsefest 2014: Testimony and One LIVE (2015)

Morsefest 2015: ? and Sola Scriptura LIVE (2017)

Live at the Downey Theater 2008 (2019)

Winter Worship Tour 2012 (2019)

Cal Prog 2004 (2019)

Testimony Live 2003 (2019)

3 Rivers Prog Festival 2008 (2019)

Jesus Christ: The Exorcist - Live at Morsefest 2018 (2020)

Life & Times in Milan - June 8th, 2016 (2021)

With The Neal Morse Band

Alive Again (2016)

The Similitude of a Dream: Live in Tilburg 2017 (2018)

Morsefest 2017: Testimony of a Dream (2018)

The Great AdvenTour: Live in Brno 2019 (2020)

Morsefest 2019 (2021)

Morsefest 2021 (2022)

Morsefest 2020 (2023)

An Evening Of Innocence & Danger: Live in Hamburg (2023)

With Spock's Beard

Official Live Bootleg/The Beard is Out There (1996)

Live at the Whisky and NEARfest (1999)

Nick 'n Neal live in Europe – Two Separate Gorillas (2000)

Don't Try This at Home (2000)

Don't Try This @ Home Either (2000)

There & Here (2001)

Europe '98 (2010)

Snow Live (2017)

Offenbach 1-Nov-98 (2019)

Live at the Astoria - Jun 16, 2001 (2021)

With Transatlantic

Live in America (2001)

Live in Europe (2003)

Whirld Tour 2010: Live in London (2010)

More Never is Enough: Live @ Manchester & Tilburg 2010 (2011)

KaLIVEoscope (2014)

The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia (2023)

With Yellow Matter Custard

Main article: Yellow Matter Custard § Discography

One Night in New York City (2003)

One More Night in New York City (2011)

With Flying Colors

Live in Europe (2013)

Second Flight: Live at the Z7 (2015)

Third Stage: Live in London (2020)

Morsefest 2019 (2021)

Compilations and rarities

Merry Christmas from the Morse Family (2000)

The Transatlantic Demos (2003)

Sing It High: A Collection of Singles (2007)

One Demos (2007)

Neal's Mystery Box (2019)

Advent Calendar 2019 (2019)

Inner Circle Sampler (2020)

Hope and a Future (2020)

Testimony Demos (2020)

Question Mark Demos (2020)

Sola Scriptura Demos (2020)

With Spock's Beard

From the Vault (1997)

The First Twenty Years (2015)

The Demos 1995-2000 (2020)

With Transatlantic

SMPT:e - As Mixed By Roine Stolt 1999 (2003)

With The Prog World Orchestra

A Proggy Christmas (2012)








NEAL MORSE

APPEARS  

OCTOBER 18TH 2024


ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

WITH RAY SHASHO

THE ROCK STAR CHRONICLES

BOOK TRAILER

 

BOOK REVIEW

-By Literary Titan (5) STARS

The Rock Star Chronicles by Ray Shasho, is a splendid book written by a music enthusiast who has poured their heart and soul into it. It’s a story of a boy who loved rock music, and his obsessive passion of it earned himself the name Rock Raymond. He went to school but instead was schooled in all matters of music while his peers were buried chin-deep in coursework. He then became a radio DJ and has now compiled a book on all interviews he held with Rock gods who raided the airwaves back in the 70s and 80s. It’s a compilation of interviews with outstanding vocalists, legendary guitarists and crazy drummers in the rock music scene. Each interview gives a reader an in-depth view into their personal lives and the philosophies that guide their lives which all serve to humanize these great icons. For readers who are old enough to call themselves baby boomers this book will bring old memories back to life. Millennials, on the other hand, may think of this book as a literal work of the Carpool Karaoke show. 

The Rock Star Chronicles is a book I didn’t know I was waiting for. To come across a book that will talk me into trying something new. One brave enough to incite me to venture into new frontiers. This book made me a believer- I am now a bona fide Rock and Roll music fan. 

Ray Shasho masterfully gets the interviewees talking. He smartly coaxes answers from them with crafty questions designed to get a story rolling out of them. The artists talk about diverse issues ranging from music, politics, and their social engagements. Having been on the music seen all his life, Ray Shasho knows the buttons to press, how to get them comfortable about talking about their lives. 

The book’s cover is befitting of its subject matter with the leather look offering a royal background to the golden letter print. It speaks to how high a level rock music holds in the pecking order- arguably, modern music as we know it has originated from blues and rock music.  The second noteworthy thing is the use of high-definition pictures to reference the musician being interviewed in every sub-chapter. This ensures that the book is for both original rock and roll lovers and aspiring new ones. Together is makes for a refreshing and consistently enjoyable read.

I recommend this book to rock music enthusiasts, aspiring musicians wondering what it takes and all readers curious to learn new things by going back in time.

https://literarytitan.com/2020/05/03/literary-titan-book-awards-may-2020/   

Gold Award Winner



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Friday, October 4, 2024

JOHN WESLEY REVERED AMERICAN GUITARIST ON TOUR WITH ALT ROCK BAND VERTICAL HORIZON: ZOOM EXCLUSIVE ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS!

 


REVERED AMERICAN GUITARIST

SINGER and SONGWRITER 

J O H N  W E S L E Y 

ON TOUR WITH ALT ROCK BAND 

VERTICAL HORIZON

 ZOOM EXCLUSIVE

 ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS 

WITH RAY SHASHO

CLICK BELOW 

TO WATCH THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW


John Wesley has built a long and varied career as a songwriter, “sideman” guitarist, and recording artist. His music has been called lyrically sensitive and musically dynamic. His songwriting style incorporates emotionally charged vocals that evoke the honesty and intimacy of Roger Waters and Patty Griffin coupled with a melodic yet intricate guitar style reminiscent of David Gilmour, Alex Lifeson, Jeff Beck, and Warren Haynes. 

Wesley’s guitar-driven acoustic and electric songs represent the cultivation of many inspirations — alternative, progressive, art, and classic rock genres intertwined with poignant lyrics drawn from the poetry of the common man. What really appeals to Wesley’s fans worldwide is a spark of sincerity and sensitivity so oft absent in today’s mainstream music. Most recently, John Wesley has performed as sideman, guitarist/vocalist for Vertical Horizon. John Wesley’s professional music career began in the early 1980’s in the Tampa, Florida area where he founded 1991 Southwestern Music Conference’s showcase act Autodrive.

The following year Wesley embarked on a solo career and became the premier opening act for British progressive rockers Marillion on seven consecutive tour legs around the world — especially North and South America, the UK and Europe — where he played for hundreds of thousands of fans. In 1998, Wesley embarked with White Lion frontman Mike Tramp on an extensive tour as premier opening act for the prestigious Peter Frampton/Lynyrd Skynyrd tour. Following this was several world tours as lead guitarist for Scottish neo-prog legend Fish. In 2001, John Wesley was the primary co-writer of Fish’s Fellini Days album. In 2002 he began touring as guitarist and backing vocalist for Porcupine Tree, during the In Absentia world tour and continued his role with the band through Deadwing, Fear of a Blank Planet, and The Incident world tours. He performed in the band for nearly a decade and over 450 shows, culminating in 2010 with sold out performances at Radio City Music Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. In 2011 he performed guitar during Steven Wilson’s North American Grace for Drowning tour. 

Throughout 2013, Wesley toured as lead guitarist with Simon Collin’s Sound of Contact to support the Dimensionaut album. In 2014, Wesley toured as guest lead guitarist with Big Elf. Wesley has also toured the U.S. and Europe extensively to support his independent releases – performing as opening act for Marillion, Fish, Porcupine Tree, Sister Hazel, Steven Wilson, Flying Colors, The Winery Dogs, and Blackfield.  In 2005, Wesley produced and recorded his fifth studio release, Shiver, co-produced by Mark Prator, and mixed by Steven Wilson of Porcupine tree. In 2011, Wesley partnered with UK native Dean Tidey (Feeder, Muddy Apes), to produce his EP, the lilypad suite. 

Wesleys log awaited sixth full-length studio album, Disconnect, was released by Inside Out Music on April 1, 2014, and the follow-up album, a way you’ll never be… was released in late 2016. In 2021, Wesley began touring as a guitarist and backing vocalist for alternative rock band from D.C. Vertical Horizon.


PURCHASE

THESE INCREDIBLE ALBUMS

BY

JOHN

 WESLEY


A WAY YOU’LL NEVER BE



AND


'DISCONNECT'

BY

JOHN

 WESLEY



available at amazon.com



ALSO

THE LATEST RELEASE

BY

VERTICAL

 HORIZON

entitled

THE LOST MILE

amazon.com



FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

JOHN WESLEY

VISIT

https://www.john-wesley.com/

Official website

https://www.facebook.com/johnwesleyofficial

Facebook

https://www.instagram.com/johnwesleymusic

Instagram

https://x.com/johnwesleymusic

Twitter

https://x.com/johnwesleymusic

Twitter

https://www.verticalhorizon.com/

Vertical Horizon official website

https://www.facebook.com/officialverticalhorizon/

Facebook

https://www.instagram.com/officialverticalhorizon/

Instagram

https://x.com/VerticalHorizon

Twitter

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBMoHtYNfZkQ0x5nc3NNwMg

YouTube


VERTICAL HORIZON

TOUR 2024

Upcoming Dates

Fri, SEP 20  Thunder Valley Rally

Cottonwood, AZ

Sat, SEP 21 Haute Spot

Cedar Park, TX

Sat, OCT 5 MusicFest El Dorado

El Dorado, AR

Fri, OCT 18 Des Plaines Theatre

Des Plaines, IL

Sat, OCT 19 Homer Stryker Field - Donut & Beer Festival

Kalamazoo, MI

Sun, OCT 20 Flagstar Strand Theatre

Pontiac, MI

Tue, OCT 22 City Winery

Pittsburgh, PA

Wed, OCT 23 Weinberg Center For the Arts

Frederick, MD

Fri, OCT 25 Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun

Uncasville, CT

Sat, OCT 26 Sunfest

Ocean City, MD

Wed, NOV 6 Ardmore Music Hall

Ardmore, PA

Thu, NOV 7 Racket NYC

New York, NY

Fri, NOV 8 Blue Ocean Music Hall

Salisbury, MA

Sat, NOV 9 AURA

Portland, ME

Sun, NOV 10 Empire Live

Albany, NY

Tue, NOV 12 WORKPLAY Theatre

Birmingham, AL

Wed, NOV 13 City Winery

Atlanta, GA

Thu, NOV 14 The Ramkat

Winston-Salem, NC

 

JOHN WESLEY

Discography

Studio albums

1994 – Under the Red and White Sky

1995 – The Closing of the Pale Blue Eyes [EP]

1998 – The Emperor Falls

2002 – Chasing Monsters

2005 – Shiver

2011 – The Lilypad Suite [EP]

2014 – Disconnect

2016 – A Way You'll Never Be

Studio albums with other artists

With Mike Tramp: Songs I Left Behind: (Guitar on "What If I", "Falling Down"), This & That (But A Whole Lot More): (Guitar on "Wait Not For Me")

With Fish: Fellini Days: (co-writing and recording credits)

With Porcupine Tree (recording credits): In Absentia, Fear of a Blank Planet, The Incident

With Ruud Jolie: For All We Know (lead guitar on "I Lost Myself Today")

With ÚMÆ:Lost in the View: (lead vocals on "Turn Back Time", "Echo", "Running Away")

Compilation

2004 – John Wesley: TEN

Singles

1994 – The Last Light

1995 – Into the Night

1995 – Domino

2003 – Fly Boy

Live releases

1998 – Waiting for the Sun to Shine in Paris

1998 – Wesfest 98

1999 – Starting the Engine II

1999 – WesFest 1999

2000 – The John Wesley Bachelor Party Tour

2002 – The Chicago and Frisco Bootlegs

2006 – Live at Katie Fitzgerald's

2009 – Oxford

2010 – Live at the L'Olympia

2013 – Live at Morrisound 30th Anniversary Show

 

Vertical Horizon

Discography

Studio albums

There and Back Again (1992)

Running on Ice (1995)

Everything You Want (1999)

Go (2003)

Burning the Days (2009)

Echoes from the Underground (2013)

The Lost Mile (2018)








JOHN WESLEY
APPEARS
OCTOBER 3RD 2024


ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

WITH RAY SHASHO

THE ROCK STAR CHRONICLES

BOOK TRAILER

 

BOOK REVIEW

-By Literary Titan (5) STARS

The Rock Star Chronicles by Ray Shasho, is a splendid book written by a music enthusiast who has poured their heart and soul into it. It’s a story of a boy who loved rock music, and his obsessive passion of it earned himself the name Rock Raymond. He went to school but instead was schooled in all matters of music while his peers were buried chin-deep in coursework. He then became a radio DJ and has now compiled a book on all interviews he held with Rock gods who raided the airwaves back in the 70s and 80s. It’s a compilation of interviews with outstanding vocalists, legendary guitarists and crazy drummers in the rock music scene. Each interview gives a reader an in-depth view into their personal lives and the philosophies that guide their lives which all serve to humanize these great icons. For readers who are old enough to call themselves baby boomers this book will bring old memories back to life. Millennials, on the other hand, may think of this book as a literal work of the Carpool Karaoke show. 

The Rock Star Chronicles is a book I didn’t know I was waiting for. To come across a book that will talk me into trying something new. One brave enough to incite me to venture into new frontiers. This book made me a believer- I am now a bona fide Rock and Roll music fan. 

Ray Shasho masterfully gets the interviewees talking. He smartly coaxes answers from them with crafty questions designed to get a story rolling out of them. The artists talk about diverse issues ranging from music, politics, and their social engagements. Having been on the music seen all his life, Ray Shasho knows the buttons to press, how to get them comfortable about talking about their lives. 

The book’s cover is befitting of its subject matter with the leather look offering a royal background to the golden letter print. It speaks to how high a level rock music holds in the pecking order- arguably, modern music as we know it has originated from blues and rock music.  The second noteworthy thing is the use of high-definition pictures to reference the musician being interviewed in every sub-chapter. This ensures that the book is for both original rock and roll lovers and aspiring new ones. Together is makes for a refreshing and consistently enjoyable read.

I recommend this book to rock music enthusiasts, aspiring musicians wondering what it takes and all readers curious to learn new things by going back in time.

https://literarytitan.com/2020/05/03/literary-titan-book-awards-may-2020/   

Gold Award Winner



MORE BOOKS BY RAY SHASHO




RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY
 
TO BE PART OF MUSIC HISTORY!

CALL 941-567-6193

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR???