MEDEA

Medea is a solo project from Henry Meeuws, the keyboard player of the Dutch symphonic and progressive rockband Casual Silence.
Henry's musical roots go all the way back to 1989, when he was guitarist of the melodic metal band Yarreth, with which they released three demos; ‘The Outcast' (1989), ‘Two Sides' (1992) and ‘Out Of The Daydream' (1997). In 1998 he went solo with his Medea project. Meanwhile he also recorded a solo album with classical pieces on the acoustic guitar (1999). But after some time a ticklish feeling was rising and he wanted to stand on the stage again and play for a live audience.

In September 2000 he found his musical challenge as a keyboard player and so he joined the Dutch progressive symphonic rock band Casual Silence. He quickly had an important part in writing and composing their music. At the beginning of 2003 he recorded with Casual Silence their successful album ‘Once In A Blue Moon'. Nearly at the same time his first full length solo album under the name MEDEA and the album “Individual Unique” was released by Red Sea Records. This album was also a rock opera about the life and works of Michelangelo. Henry played all the instruments himself and he made use of 9 guest vocalists, among which were 3 of his fellow members of Casual Silence. The album got praiseworthy reviews (‘vette krent' in the IOpages). With his new rock opera named ‘Room XVII' Henry has accepted the challenge to surpass this sublime album in all of its aspects.

He has signed a record deal with Snakebite Records and again he engaged an impressive cast of musicians for the release, such as for instance Rob Laarhoven (Casual Silence), Joss Mennen (Mennen), Edwin Balogh (Ayreon, Supersonic), Robbie van Stiphout (Day Six) and Sandra Peeters (V-Male / theAlterGlow). In addition there was a unique co-operation with the male choir Lambardi on this album. Fon Janssen (Mennen, Project Fear) has taken charge of all the drums. With these musical ingredients ‘Room XVII' has become a great, varied and bombastic rock opera!

See here the musicians who play the characters in "Room XVII":
In March 2007 Henry released his second full length album with his band Casual Silence. This great conceptalbum, called "Lost In Life" contains 8 symphonic, progressive rocktracks. Guestvocals on this album by no one less than Damian Wilson (Landmarq, Treshold, Aryeon) and Sandra Peeters.

Meanwhile Henry is working on a new MEDEA album. Again it will become a conceptalbum. But it 's too early to tell about now, ...To be continued...