John Orr Franklin "Lineage"

Country: USA
Genre(s): AOR, Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 1, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. In the Here and Now - 03:09
2. I Move On - 03:34
3. Say Why - 03:16
4. Wave on Wave - 04:20
5. Bloodlines - 03:00
6. Soul Mates - 03:46
7. The River of Love - 04:56
8. Selfless Love - 03:51
9. Sage Brush Hollow - 04:16
10. Places of Your Soul - 04:26

Line-up: 
John Orr Franklin - all instruments and vocals

Description/Reviews: 

The Lineage album takes John Orr's music into a new uncharted territory. Featuring songs of love, lust and universal belonging. The album explores the past in hopes of better understanding the present. All things happen for a reason and all things that have happened have made the here and now, what it is today.
Lineage..... without acknowledging where we came from it is quite easy to miss the line forward and fall away from the path that is in front of us. Ultimately, we end where we begin. 

Media/Samples 
Bandcamp

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John Orr Franklin "The Ghost of Houdini"

Country: USA
Genre(s): AOR, Art Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: March 24, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. The Oak Tree - 05:59
2. I'll Try - 04:09
3. It Goes On - 03:32
4. Words Disguise - 04:37
5. Lessons Learned - 03:13
6. Seasons Change - 03:08
7. The Ghost of Houdini - 05:39
8. Life of the Spirit - 03:46
9. Always Around - 03:39
10. Carry On - 04:23

Line-up: 
John Orr Franklin - all instruments and vocals

Description/Reviews: 

March 24, 2015 marks the 141st birthday of Harry Houdini.
An album that deals largely with strength of the spirit. Featuring the song “The Oak Tree” which is lyrically based on a poem by Johnny Ray Ryder of the same name. The album’s title track features actual audio recorded at a Houdini séance as well as one of the only known recordings of the actual voice of Harry Houdini. Ten songs based on the acknowledgment of the spirit world and the importance it bears on the world of here and now. 

Media/Samples 
Bandcamp

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John Orr Franklin "The Celestial Mechanics"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: AOR, Art Rock, Space Rock, Ambient
Release date: November 11, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Prelude
2. The Source
3. Apollo
4. Earthrise
5. Module Separation
6. Into the Egg
7. Sea of Tranquility
8. Lunar Ascent
9. Reentry
10. Splashdown

Line-up: 
John Orr Franklin - Guitars, Synthesisers and instrument programming

Media/Samples 
Several tracks online

Links:
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John Orr Franklin Project "Reaching Ground"

Country: USA
Sub Genres: Space Rock, AOR, Art Rock
Label: Melodic Revolution Records
Release date: November 6, 2012
Tracklist: 
One of Four
  01. Incoming
  02. Without a Sound
  03. Battle Scars
Two of Four
  04. Soldier On -

    part 1 - connection
    part 2 - soldier on
    part 3 - alone
    part 4 - stick to your guns
    part 5 - soldier on (reprise)
  05. Resuscitation
  06. Reaching Ground
Three of Four
  07. Outpost Down
  08. Stars Are Falling
  09. Light it Up!
  10. Sanctify
Four of Four
  11. Vanishing Umbra
  12. Your Own Worst Enemy
  13. Prelude
  14. Alpha and Omega

Line-up: 
John Orr Franklin - Guitars & Vocals Gavin Harrison, Roberto Palladino - Drums Ryan Redfern - Bass Guitar Chris Cribb - Keyboards & Backing Vocals

Description/Reviews: 

The album tells the tale of one man's journey through a world on the brink of universal evolutionary change. After first contact with beings from another dimension, the planet descends into a world of distrust and discord. In this landscape of division between those that believe, and have made contact with this new race, to those that cannot or refuse to believe, one man comes forth to fulfill his destiny. His hope to bring harmony back into a world struggling to rebuild a bridge into a truth that was abandoned many millennia ago, is encapsulated in “Reaching Ground” and is the beginning of his story.

Media/Samples 
Samples

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