Kalle Wallner "Voices"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, Hard Rock
Label: Gentle Art of Music - GAOM072
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: February 25, 2022
Tracklist

1. One (5:15) 

2. Two (7:54) 

3. Three (5:56) 

4. Four (6:00) 

5. Five (3:53) 

6. Six (9:30) 

7. Seven. Out (11:14) 

Total Time 49:42

Line-up
Kalle Wallner (RPWL, Blind Ego): guitars, bass, keyboards, programming

    With

Marco Minnemann (Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats, Mike Keneally): drums

Arno Menses (Subsignal): vocals (3)

Tanyc: vocals (6)

Yogi Lang (RPWL): keyboards, programming

Description/Reviews:

Kalle Wallner's first proper solo album is a mainly instrumental affair, combining energetic hard rock with atmospheric laden progressive rock, and with a liberal amount of Floydian moods and atmospheres adding flavor to many of the songs. Those who know and appreciate the material released by Blind Ego as well as RPWL will find quite a lot of material that will be of interest and that will be familiar sounding. More guitar driven and guitar dominated though, especially compared to the latter, and an interest in instrumental music will be needed to get the most out of this album. But, at least for now, I'd send fans of Blind Ego and RPWL to this album prior to anyone else.

Read the full review by Olav M Björnsen at progressor-net.blogspot.com

Media/Samples
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Three

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Blind Ego "Liquid"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Gentle Art of Music
Format: CD , vinyl
Release date: October 21, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. A Place In The Sun (6:11)
2. Blackened (5:44)
3. What If (6:24)
4. Not Going Away (7:32)
5. Never Escape The Storm (8:20)
6. Tears And Laughter (4:47)
7. Hear My Voice Out There (5:56)
8. Quiet Anger (6:31)
9. Speak The Truth (6:54)

Total time 58:19

Line-up: 
Kalle Wallner (RPWL) - guitars, bass, backing vocals, keyboards, programming
Arno Menses
 (Subsignal) - vocals
Erik Ez Blomkvist
 - vocals
Aaron Brooks
 (Simeon Soul Charger) - vocals
Sebastian Harnack 
(Sylvan) - bass
Ralf Schwager
 (Subsignal) - bass
Heiko Jung
 (Panzerballett) - bass
Michael Schwager 
(Dreamscape) - drums

Description/Reviews: 

Kalle Wallner took seven years to complete his third solo effort. While 2007’s debut Mirror sounded smooth and almost melancholic, the Freising-native Bavarian utilized the figurative steam hammer on 2009’s Numb and served the audience with a tough as nails monster of hard rock heavily influenced by metal. Liquid now fuses the two earlier approaches without merely being a thrown together sum of its parts. In fact the elements were organically merged – and the result contains nine pieces of music that offer everything: from mighty hard rock melodies to brutal heavy metal riffing action all the way to emotionally charged passages. By means of those tools, Liquid ultimately completes a comprehensive artistic process that saw its beginning years ago. In the center of all this there is Kalle Wallner’s both virtuoso as well as effective style of guitar playing that unifies all the energy streams in one collective soul.

Media/Samples 
Trailer
Blackened  

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