Marty Friedman & Brian Auger perform on new Fusion Syndicate single

It's moments like this that make you wonder what's able to happen in the world of music - and only there is seems to be possible. These thoughts rushed through my head as I've become aware of the new Fusion Syndicate single.

It comes with two guest stars I never thought would come together in such a music frame. Marty Friedman is known to many as the guitar player with Megadeth in the 90's. His performance is one of a kind and he also puts out own solo albums ("Dragons Kiss" still rotates on my mind).

Brian Auger took part in the german TV show "Super Drumming" that was broadcasted way back in August 1989 here in Germany. Pete York was the sticksman who brought together many great drummers of that time among them Cozy Powell, Simon Phillips, Ian Paice and Gerry Brown to name just a few. 

It was all centered around the history of the drums in Rock and Blues music. A core band called "The All Styles band" performed classic tracks in a church - amongst them Brian Auger on keyboards. The drummers added their own signature drumming and solo parts into those songs. It left a massive feeling behind in me that music is something very special here on earth.

And now both can be heard in this jazz fusion supergroup called Fusion Syndicate. This link has been given to me with a overview on several music services that have "Meteor Shower" on offer for streaming and download.

Marty Friedman and Brian Auger unite in the Jazz Fusion Band The Fusion Syndiacate.

A first listen left a balanced impression on me. It's happily not a too overloaded release coming in two parts. It all starts out with a more basic performance with lots of atmosphere and few splitters of all contributors taking part. The topic of a meteoric shower is well present in my mind as I listen to the music. It's very well worked out in the details and the sound. The second part clearly put's the guitar into the bright spotlight. It's a typical hefty axe attack that shows Friedman's abilities very well most of all towards the end of the track. 

There's also a full album coming up. Read the following announcement for more details on this:

f you thought you would have to wait another 10 years for a new Fusion Syndicate album to light up the night sky, we have some exciting news for you! Yes it took over a decade for the jazz fusion supergroup to follow up its 2012 debut self-titled album with their sophomore effort, A Speedway On Saturn’s Rings, released earlier this month. But now comes the announcement that the group is set to release another full-length album, Beautiful Horizon, on November 3, ensuring that their fans and followers will have plenty to tide them over for at least another decade or more!

Beautiful Horizon is in many ways a companion piece to Speedway, continuing its cosmic theme while expanding its universe with a mindblowing array of eclectic performers including Fishbone's Angelo Moore, The Door's Robby Krieger, PiL's Jah Wobble, Mahavishnu Orchestra's Jerry Goodman, Megadeth's Marty Friedman, Chrome's Helios Creed, and more. The album showcases even more adventurous, musically complex master works, including the album’s first single “Meteor Shower,” which is released today. The combination of fiery metal guitarist Marty Friedman and icy cool keyboardist Brian Auger creates a brilliant once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event that not even Haley’s comet could upstage!

Watch for the full album experience of Beautiful Horizon to be released on CD and digital with bonus tracks that feature additional performances Steve Morse, Tony Kaye, John Etheridge, Steve Hillage and others! And keep watching the night sky for the appearance of the vinyl version following shortly after.

Order the CD: https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/the-fusion-syndicate-beautiful-horizon-cd/

Pre-order/pre-save the digital: https://orcd.co/beautifulhorizon 

Fresh stuff from Marty Friedman, Savage Messiah and Caliban online

Wow, it's quite some time ago that I heard something from Marty Friedman. He became very famous for his work as a the sidekick of Dave Mustaine from Megadeth but afterwards I never heard much from him again. I knew he had a solo project going on and also listened to one of his CDs but through the last years there was no sign of life to be seen... Until now I found this song at the metalunderground website telling me that a new album called "Inferno" is set for release in May 2014. So check out what Friedman is all about these days.



Next in row for today are english thrashers Savage Messiah. Their new album "The Fateful Dark" is coming closer with a release on March 30th. They've recently put out one more track to check out, the text talks about the Ganghi "Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth". 
Update 2014/01/28: Just received the info that Earache Records has put up a nearly 20 minute video with snippets from all of the songs of the upcoming album, so I've added that video, too. Sound great IMHO, very fine trash going straight to the point. Lets see how the album will turn out.
 



Finally if you wanna hear the full new Caliban album entitled "Ghost empire" jump over here to the website of the EMP mailorder. They have the new record up there in a nice player showing a tape being in the cassette player while listening to the track. Reminds me a lot back to the nice old times. The happiest days of our lifes...