In the grand tradition of high concept Progressive Rock, comes an epic cross-media hybrid where cerebral science fiction meets visceral Rock ‘n’ Roll. SONTAAG’s eponymous debut album has been described as "the space opera that PINK FLOYD never wrote", "a modern-day Tubular Bells", "a Prog-Rock War Of The Worlds", but no reference point or sound-bite nails its seamless combination of Space Rock, narrative spoken word, and evocative ambience quite as neatly as ‘sonic cinema’. Recorded in New York City and London, co-produced and mixed by Youth (KILLING JOKE, THE FIREMAN) for Big Life Management, "Sontaag" is a stunning and immersive listening experience. An evolutionary progression combining cutting edge sounds with classic dynamics, adapting the rock experience for today’s digital environment.
SONTAAG features Richard Sontaag (composition, instruments, concept, co-production) and Ian Fortnam (story, lyrics, voice, concept).
"Sontaag", which will be released on April 28th, is a cross-generic Space Rock grand opera: a transcontinental project fast-tracking contemporary music into a cinematic future by refusing to recognize boundaries geographic or stylistic. Imagine stratosphere-scraping PINK FLOYD dynamism powered beyond the boundaries and constraints of gravity by the propulsive sonic energy of a visionary Youth production job; a Star Wars saga psychedelicized by the vivid ambient shades of an Orb sound palette.
“Sontaag” tracklisting:
01. "Empyrean"
02. "The Great Harmodulator"
03. "Spaceshifter"
04. "Harmodulation"
05. "Minor Keys Of Anguished Weeping"
06. "Serena Serenarum"
07. "Sorush"
08. "Interstellar Genocide"
09. "Chokuto"
10. "Glissandor"
11. "The Skull-Scraping Caterwaul"
12. "Aftershock"
13. "Memoria Tenere"
Source: www.EsotericRecordings.Com