Poor Genetic Material "Here Now"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: QuiXote Music 
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: September 19, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Here Now
2. Serendipity
3. The Waiting Game
4. Note From My Younger Self
5. The Garden
6. This Place

Line-up: 
Philip Griffiths (Alias Eye) - Lead & backing vocals
Martin Griffiths (Beggar's Opera) - Lead vocals (5)
Stefan Glomb (Autumnal Blossom) - Guitars
Philipp Jaehne (Autumnal Blossom) - Keyboards
Pia Darmstaedter (Autumnal Blossom) - Flute
Dennis Sturm - Bass
Dominik Steinbacher - Drums & backing vocals

Media/Samples 
Note From My Younger Self
The Garden (extract)

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Arilyn "#eraser"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Neo-Prog
Label: QuiXote Music (qxt cd 75)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: November 24, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Eraser (6:03)
2. The Temple (3:16)
3. Resist (5:41)
4. Coming Back To Life (6:16)
5. Sadness (6:28)
6. Special (3:44)
7. The Last Of Us (6:58)
8. Shattered Pieces (6:47)
9. Moon (5:54)
10. Jungle (4:00)
11. With Love (4:05)

Total Time 59:12

Line-up: 
Christian Külbs - Vocals, Bass
Jürgen Moßgraber - Keyboards
Jürgen Kaletta - Guitar
Christof Doll - Drums, Percussion

Description/Reviews: 

Arilyn from Ludwigshafen present their sixth album titled "Eraser". Cleverly, they connect hard rock guitars with electronic elements and thus achieve a sound that is familiar from bands like Archive. They continue to be loyal to their typical signature, refrains with a high recognition value. 

Media/Samples 
The Temple

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Poor Genetic Material "Absence"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: QuiXote Music
Format: CD, digital
Release date: September 16, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Absence - Part 1 (12:55)
2. What If … ? (5:59)
3. Lost In Translation (4:59)
4. Chalkhill Blues (3:43)
5. Absconded (10:39)
6. Absence - Part 2 (18:34)

Total Time 56:49

Line-up: 
Philip Griffiths (Alias Eye) - Vocals
Martin Griffiths (Beggar's Opera) - Vocals
Stefan Glomb (Autumnal Blossom) - Guitars
Philipp Jaehne (Autumnal Blossom) - Keyboards
Pia Darmstaedter (Autumnal Blossom) - Flute
Dennis Sturm - Bass
Dominik Steinbacher - Drums

Media/Samples
Absence part 1 (edit)

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Autumnal Blossom "Spellbound"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Prog Folk, Classical
Label: QuiXote Music
Format: CD, digital
Release date: March 24, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Because I Could Not Stop For Death (5:40)
2. Memories Of A Child (4:48)
3. Eternally Not Yours (5:03)
4. Beguiling Masks (3:53)
5. Grey Masses (3:39)
6. My Blood (3:40)
7. Ravenous (6:40)
8. Secrets (4:01)
9. In These Rooms (5:27)
10. Paradise (8:31)

Total time 51:22

Line-up: 
Pia Darmstaedter - vocals, flute, piano, keyboards
Philipp Jaehne (Poor Genetic Material) - organ, synthesizers
Jochen Bauer – guitar
Frank Willi Schmidt - bass, singing saw
Christoph Czech - drums, percussion
Maria Karch – violin
Valeria Lo Giudice – cello
Mark Beers - double bass
Olaf Gramlich - english horn

Description/Reviews: 

The new album Spellbound deals with a complex web of topics like love, passion, pain, memory, eternity and the quest of finding oneself. The album’s lyrics form a fictitious journal of memories that have left their mark on life and come alive again. The listeners may recognize themselves in this journal and can join a journey through the human soul - in spite (or because?) of a chain of borderline experiences and a number of tragic elements with a decidedly optimistic message.
Spellbound is a mixture of biography, fiction and reality - never forgotten episodes, immortalized by memory, adding up to hope and the affirmation of life.

Media/Samples 
Memories of a Child
My Blood 
Ravenous 

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Poor Genetic Material "A Day in June"

Country: Germany
Sub Genre: Symphonic
Label: QuiXote Music
Release date: May 31, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Martello Morning
2. Wisdom And Menace
3. Bloom
4. Wandering Rocks
5. Nausicaa
6. Oxen Of The Sun
7. Ithaca
8. Yes

Line-up: 
Phil Griffiths (Alias Eye) - vocals (1,2,4,6,7)
Stefan Glomb - guitars
Philipp Jaehne - keyboards
Pia Darmstaedter - flute
Dennis Sturm - bass
Dominik Steinbacher - drums
     With
Martin Griffiths (Beggars Opera): vocals (3,4,5,6,7)

Review/Description:

After their successful adaptation of WilliamShakespeare’s The Tempest on their lastalbum Island Noises, Poor Genetic Material spent two years to developanother literature-inspired project whichalso gave them the opportunity to realize aplan they had been brewing for quite awhile: that of bringing together PhilGriffiths and his dad, Martin (of Beggars Opera fame), as lead singers on onealbum. On A Day in June, Martin shares the vocals with Phil on three songs, and each ofthem has two lead tracks. James Joyce’snovel Ulysses, on which the new album isbased, provides an ideal frame of referencefor this collabo-ration in that it both tells offather-son-relationships and opens up awide array of themes and motifs to playaround with. Apart from the resultinglyrics, which are refreshingly different fromthe run-of-the-mill fare of much of today’srock music, the album features what overthe years has matured into the band’sdistinctive musical style. Excellent playingcombined with inventive songwriting wentinto creating tracks that range from thedelicately melodious to the more noisilyprogressive, from accessible tunes toquirkily complex arrangements. But whatmakes the album truly unique is indeed thesinging: Martin is back with a voice that isas powerful and captivating as ever andPhil leaves us amazed at what he can pullout of his bag of musical tricks. The waythe two voices at times resemble eachother and then cover entirely differentpoints of the vocal spectrum makes for arare treat. All in all, A Day in June shows Poor Genetic Material at the heightof their creative powers

Media/Samples:
Oxen Of The Sun
Progstreaming

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Coarbegh "The Colour Of Happiness"

Country: Germany
Sub Genre: Jazz-Rock/Fusion, Alternative, Classical
Label: QuiXote Music
Release date: March 15, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. A Secret Glance
2. Chalkhill Blues
3. The Lighthouse Keeper’s Birds
4. Two of a Kind
5. Cooil East
6. Three White Flashes
7. Lines in the Sand
8. Alchemy Lodge
9. The Colour of Happiness
10. The World Before The Fall

Line-up: 
Jutta Brandl – Vocals
Pia Darmstaedter - Flute
Stefan Glomb – Guitars, Bass
Philipp Jaehne – Keyboards, Programming
Rabin Dasgupta – Bass

Description/Reviews: 

The music of this album is the result of the unlikely meeting of five musicians from very different fields of music:

• Jutta Brandl – renowned jazz-singer, who has worked with some of the most respected German jazz musicians.
• Pia Darmstaedter – classical flutist who is busy working with different orchestras and touring and recording with her own band Autumnal Blossom.
• Rabin Dasgupta – best known from his time with Germany’s big alternative-prog hope The Amber Light.
• Philipp Jaehne und Stefan Glomb – the creative core of the Prog-band Poor Genetic Material.

The idea to this collaboration came during the sessions for the Poor Genetic Material album Island Noises, which Jutta Brandl and Pia Darmstaedter already guested on. Philipp Jaehne and Stefan Glomb had a lot of material that did not quite fit into the context of PGM and that came to life in this new line-up. Locking themselves away in a remote cottage on Valentia Island off the Irish coast they recorded these ten songs, which meant a fascinating trip into new territory - hopefully not only for the musicians involved. Each member’s stylistic origin – prog, jazz, classic, alternative - can be clearly heard, yet there is still a lot of room for experiments.
Lyric-wise the album is about the fragility of the moment and the courage it takes to fully
absorb it and live in it it. So, despite its melancholic atmosphere The Colour of Happiness has become an optimistic album. 

Media/Samples 
A secret glance

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Autumnal Blossom "Against the Fear of Death"

Country: Germany
Sub Genre: Prog Folk, Classical
Label: QuiXote Music
Release date: March 15, 2013
Tracklist: 
01. intro: young and old 03:06
02. against the fear of death 03:26
03. dirge in woods 04:56
04. slant of light 04:10
05. song: when I am dead 04:03
06. life is a poets fable 08:54
07. intermezzo 02:08
08. forget not yet 03:48
09. tears idle tears 06:51
10. the arrow and the song 03:11
11. november fog 06:30
12. night is darkening 03:39

Line-up: 
Pia Darmstädter - piano, flutes, vocals
Philipp Jähne (Poor Genetic Material) - keyboards, programming
Stefan Glomb (Poor Genetic Material) - guitars, bass
Valeria Lo Giudice - cello
Mark Beers - contrabass
Julia Donat - didgeridoo

Description/Reviews: 

On this album these different musical worlds merge: Old acoustic instruments are contrasted by electronic sounds. Songs with a chamber-music like instrumentation alternate with tracks in a full band line-up. So Against the Fear of Death is a truely unique blend of Classic, Folk and Prog, perfectly capturing the atmosphere of the lyrics: Old English and American poems come
to life here. All of them dealing with the topic of death and how to cope and live with it. A topic that evokes questions that we will probably never be able to answer. It is art and music that help us to deal with them.

Media/Samples 
3 tracks online
Life is a poet's fable

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Arilyn "Shadows Of The Past"

Country: Germany
Sub Genre: Neo-Prog, Space Rock
Label: QuiXote Music
Release date: March 1, 2013
Tracklist: 
01 Shadows Of The Past
02 Everything Comes Back Again
03 Move On
04 All Of You
05 Hide Away My Tears
06 King Without A Crown
07 So Extreme
08 Redemption
09 The Masters Chamber
10 Wasted
11 A Man With A Mission

Line-up: 
Christian Külbs - Vocals / Bass
Jürgen Moßgraber - Keyboards
Jürgen Kaletta - Guitar
Christof Doll - Drums / Percussion

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