Three years ago (2003) two brothers from Milan decided to write music together:
Andrea (born 6.3.1976), playing keyboards and pipe organ, and Marco (born 7.4.1987), playing cello and electric guitar.
Even if both of us love heavy metal, progressive rock and classical music, our approaches to compositions are very different. Moreover, Andrea is more inspired by neo-prog and/or melodic metal bands, while Marco likes almost every kind of Metal, even extreme bands.
The first results were so intriguing and full of contrasts that we thought that our songs were suited to describe a story: a story of action, contrasting feelings and situations and the idea of writing a concept about the journey of Odysseus was born!
After a long search, we found some brave guys to give voice to the characters of the story:
Stefano, Gisela and Andrea joined the project.
Now (July 2006) almost everything is recorded. We hope to finish our work within December 2006. The title of the album should be 'NO MAN'S JOURNEY'
Temporary Tracklist of NO MAN'S JOURNEY
01 - The Song of the Ingenious Hero (Proem)
02 - Desperate Quest (The Journey of Telemachus) - The Metal Ouverture
03 - The Great Deceit (The Fall of Troy - Voyager of the Sea - The Oblivion Gift)
04 - The Evil Eye (Polyphemus and the Cyclops)
05 - Forbidden Sack (Aeolus, the God of the Winds)
06 - Spellbound (Circe the Sorceress)
07 - Land of the Eternal Darkness (Descending to Hades)
08 - Killing Chant (The Syrens)
09 - Dark Passage of Death (Scylla and Charybdis)
10 - Wheel of Fate (The Nympha Calypso)
11 - Memories of Tears (The Phaeacians) - The Classical Ouverture
The Ithaca Suite:
12 - Ithaca's Shores
13 - A Woman's Will (Penelope)
14 - Hard as Loyalty (Eumeus the Shepherd)
15 - The Beggar
16 - Divine Presages (A Dream & a Plot)
17 - The Last Banquet
18 - Back on my Throne (The Massacre of the Suitors)
Soulmarket would like to thank:
-All the guys who decided to give their time, their patience and most of all their voices to give life to our characters!!!!
-FRANCESCO SANTAGATA for the precious advice in mixing, mastering and so on!
-HELEN TOOKE for reviewing the lyrics with such a musical and metrical taste!
NEWS
We recently won the first prize of a contest organized by Loud Session and Evolution Festival 2006 with a demo of 5 songs taken from our project.
The prize consists in a B.C.RICH Warlock Special Edition guitar.
We would like to thank Loud Session and Evolution Festival for appreciating our work and B.C.RICH for providing this beautiful prize.
We strongly hope that this event will give a bit of publicity to our project, allowing us to find someone interested in our work; thus... thanks again to Evolution Festival for giving us such an opportunity!
Some link to check out:
The MySpace page of DAGORLAD BATTLEPLAIN, Andrea's prog rock band
The website of EX TEMPORE, Stefano's band
The website of LAWBREAKERS, Pier Paolo's band
