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

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Three

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Yogi Lang "A Way Out Of Here"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Gentle Art Of Music - GAOM062
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: November 8, 2019
Tracklist: 
1. Move On (9:28)
2. A Way Out Of Here (5:30)
3. Shine On Me (5:45)
4. Don’t Confuse Life With A Thought (4:30)
5. Love Is All Around (4:35)
6. Freedom Of The Day (4:20)
7. Early Mornig Light (6:25)
8. The Sound Of The Ocean (4:30)
9. I’ll Be There For You (5:20)

Total Time 50:23

Line-up: 
Yogi Lang (RPWL): vocals, keyboards
Torsten Weber: guitars
Stephan Treutter: drums
Yvo Fischer: bass
Conny Kreitmeier: backing vocals
Bine Heller: backing vocals
Kalle Wallner (RPWL): solo guitar (4, 9)
Klaus Reichart: pedal steel, mandolin

Description/Reviews: 

The new album titled “A Way Out Of Here” not only offers a colourful palette of art rock with its nine songs, but also illuminates the essentials of life with all obstacles, fears and rays of hope. A song-serving brilliant band, analog synthesizers and epic choirs provide the basis for Yogi Lang’s gilmouresque voice.
The first symphonic wall of sound is only a few seconds away: “Move On” – obviously audibly linked to the debut work – gently pulls the listener out of everyday life. There are many personal experiences in “A Way Out Of Here”, which the album wants to convey in peace, without hustle and bustle, without false pathos. Love often seems to offer a possible solution for problems. “Love is All Around” and “Freedom Of The Day” believe in the ability of love and empathy to banish just about any problem to insignificance. But what if this “Way Out Of Here” does not exist? In “Shine On Me” the protagonist cannot accept the loss of his partner, just ignores it and in the last of the nine tracks “I’ll Be There For You” we also find the last promise to stay with a loved one to the very end, if necessary, at any cost. This already ends a multi-layered and very emotional journey through Yogi Lang’s world of thoughts.

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A Way Out Of Here

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RPWL "Tales From Outer Space"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Gentle Art of Music - GAOM061
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: March 22, 2019
Tracklist: 

1. A New World
2. Welcome To The Freak Show
3. Light Of The World
4. Not Our Place To Be
5. What I Really Need
6. Give Birth To The Sun
7. Far Away From Home

Line-up: 
Yogi Lang - vocals, keyboards
Kalle Wallner - guitars, bass
Marc Turiaux - drums
Markus Jehle - keyboards

Description/Reviews: 

RPWL continues to develop as a band, but the changes and alterations are mainly subtle. Those who tend to favor the more accessible aspects of Gilmour-era Pink Floyd is still my impression as a key audience for this band, along with those who are existing fans of RPWL obviously. “Tales From Outer Space” isn’t an album that will convert those who didn’t enjoy this band previously, but if accessible, melodic and atmospheric laden progressive rock is your thing, this album is as good as any other in terms of discovering whether RPWL deliver music you need – or not.

Read the full review by Olav Martin Bjørnsen at houseofprog.com

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Welcome to The Freak Show (at 2:50)

A New World

What I Really Need

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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.

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Blackened  

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RPWL "Wanted"

Country: Germany
Sub Genre: Neo-Prog
Label: Gentle Art of Music
Release date: March 14, 2014 (EU), April 1, 2014 (USA)
Tracklist: 
01. Revelation
02. Swords And Guns
03. A Short Cut Line
04. Wanted
05. Hide And Seek
06. Disbelief
07. Misguided Thought
08. Perfect Day
09. The Attack
10. A New Dawn

Line-up: 
Yogi Lang - vocals, keyboards
Kalle Wallner - guitar
Marc Turiaux - drums
Markus Jehle - keyboards
Werner Taus - bass

Description/Reviews: 

RPWL tell of the hero of two worlds, Giuseppe Garibaldi who, being a tremendous admirer of the Greek antiquity became aware of a scroll of Plato’s in which he analyzes the work of Hippocrates. It can be read in Garibaldi’s diaries that Hippocrates had in fact found the formula for a medicine that leads the spirit into a real and absolute world, free of all illusion and invisible ghost worlds. The question, however, that inevitable arises at that point is the following: is the human race ready for what Plato called the “gift of absolute freedom?”
The action of Wanted starts several days before the great day: Plato’s Day. The enemy’s fear is ever-growing, as, after all nobody knows at what point the mirages and illusions are eradicated from people’s minds once and for all. In the course of the record RPWL shift through ten varied songs full of breathtaking soundscapes and tell a compelling story of courage, doubt, bravery, the unconditional desire to never give in and, ultimately, the belief in what is right.

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Wanted

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