Dear ELOY friends!
After a long radio silence (sorry!) I am glad that there is finally something new to
report, but you know that we've never been the type of band to flood the Internet with every unimportant
event, and bombard their (mostly adult!) fan community with trivialities.
1. The vinyl edition of our
»Reincarnation On Stage«-Live-Doppelalbums
live double album is now being put to the test at Artist Station Records. Since this is an elaborate product
in the best analogue mastering quality on 3 vinyl records with an attractive booklet, which, at the same time,
should also be reasonably priced, the label is facing a considerable challenge. We are working to make sure a
release comes about in the foreseeable future.
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2. The new edition of »Chronicles« (this time as a double album) with some new
versions of various songs and remixes is also planned for 2015.
3. The albums
»Ra« and
»Destination«
will also be freshened up and re-issued, partly with other song versions and various remixes. However, there
are still problems with the old analogue tapes, which makes their restoration difficult, even for single copy.
The preparatory work on the current material is also hampering work.
But here's the best news:
4. The oft-cited work on the topic of Joan of Arc is taking form, and there will now not only
be a rock opera by Frank Bornemann, but, first of all, another ELOY album presenting the music on which
the later the musical framework for the stage version will be based.
I have long said goodbye to the idea of composing a stage work, or even presenting a musical
in which the dialogues fill the content with overblown singing - generally to the detriment of the music. Rather,
I intend to create a complex artistic work in which the musical part assumes a greater responsibility - in other
words, something beyond the scope and purpose of known works - without neglecting the subject which, I admit, as
a history aficionado and member of the »Association des Amis du Centre Jeanne d´Arc« in Orléans,
is very important to me.
Since the album
»Power And The Pasion«
(also termed a rock opera back then) I have not, perhaps with the exception of the double concept album
»Planets« /
»Time To Turn«,
devoted myself to a work which has a continuous storyline or even historical events as a basis. Such works
always require a lot of time and are a much greater challenge than a band album, which doesn’t have such
stringent requirements in terms of content.
In the case of the story of Joan of Arc, I have set myself, musically and lyrically, a
very high benchmark, which, particularly by sticking to the historical events, demands a high and consistent
accord between content with the music. Although the realisation of this project has been going through my
head for over 15 years, I only now for the first time have the opportunity to address it and meet the
challenge. The idea to combine it with ELOY and to put a version of it to tape first, which, at the same
time, also underpins the continuity of our common musical creation as a band, only came to me when I was
layouting and composing.
It took some time until it was clear to me that the best way for this musically and
thematically ambitious work to see the light of day would be through the band. It is now likely to take
for several months before even the music is complete, the texts are fully written, and all the layouts
for the final recordings have been created. And another few months will surely have gone by before the
recordings are all wrapped up, but then you can be assured that you can expect a very special work which,
I am convinced, will rank at the top of our releases up till now.
So, in the name of all the band members, I wish you a good Advent season, a merry
Christmas, a happy New Year and a good 2015.
Best wishes
Frank
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