Just got call from Markus Bluesharp from Switzerland who played a fantastic harp solo on MetaQuorum’s single The Piper & The Frog. Markus reports Radio X Basel @ https://www.radiox.ch/ will have a short presentation of this single around 18:30 Swiss time. So you can tune in following the link below. Press ‘Livestream’ and off you go!
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0 NEWSFLASH: The Piper & The Frog on Radio X – Basel tonight
2 Loads of Good News ;)
Hi folks
Lots of good news, where shall we start?
Well, Koos and Dmitry have managed to snatch time in their busy schedules to finish mixing two tracks for the new album: Socket Swing, and Swagger. We’ve just got the masters back from Chris Longwood of SugarHill Recording Studios – he’s worked his magic – great results!
So that means we’re one step nearer to our NEW ALBUM – WITCHCRAFT JAZZ. It’s going to be another great album, and we’re especially pleased that Victor Mikheyev is joining us again on bass, for three tracks.
And last but not least, to give you a taster of the album, new single CHICKEN & EGG will be released on October 27.
This video footage is from the first Low Bishopley Sessions, February 2015, when Dmitry and Koos were selecting tracks for recording and production. Here, Dmitry improvises around the main theme from Chicken & Egg and discusses how it could be developed. Actually, it took quite a different turn in the end…
Above is some early archive VIDEO material for CHICKEN & EGG, new single from MetaQuorum’s forthcoming album WITCHCRAFT JAZZ.
Cover art by Dmitry’s old and dear friend Petrovich, known in the West as Alexander Voitsekhovsky.
You can join us for an on-line event @ https://www.facebook.com/events/336231016728740/
Cheers, folks! Have a great weekend everyone!
MetaQuorum Team
0 CREAM OF THE SUMMER 2016 CD & Spotify Competition
As you know, we released 5 new tracks over the summer, and we’ve now put them together on a brand new compilation CD – Cream of the Summer 2016.
As well as our first song, Migration, the compilation includes Jonathan Livingston, Cyberfunk, The Piper & the Frog, and City Folk. The CD, artwork by Dmitry Ermakov, in a card sleeve, is available together with digital download for £4.50 (+P&P) at: http://goo.gl/UbddtF
WIN A CD!
But – we’re also giving away a few exclusive, signed complitation CD’s in our Summer Competition – just add 3 MetaQuorum tracks to a new Spotify playlist, and you’re in with a chance to win a signed CD. All details are here: http://goo.gl/vZcHc1
Good luck!
The MetaQuorum Team
0 Special Evening with MetaQuorum
We’re delighted to tell you PROG CORE LIVE Radio in Montreal Canada featured MetaQuorum on their Friday night show this weekend. They aired all our summer singles, plus the remastered Midnight Sun album. You can listen to the whole show on MixCloud here: https://www.mixcloud.com/progcorelive/metaquorums-d%C3%A9but-album-midnight-sun-remastered/
0 NEWS FLASH: MetaQuorum on Canadian Airwaves
Candian ProgCore Live Radio is devoting most of this Friday Show to MetaQuorum – featuring Midnight Sun [Remastered] as well as all five of this Summer singles.
You can tune in @ http://progcoreradio.com/ or via Facebook event @ https://www.facebook.com/events/307094412977804/
The show will be on-air @ 26 August, 7:00 pm EDT. In case that’s too late for you, will post a Mixxloud link the following day.
Here is a jingle collection we recorded for the show:
Cheers!
0 SONG FOR THE SUMMER
We’ve just released the last in our series of summer songs: City Folk – Folk/Prog/World Beat Fusion track inspired by the pulse of urban life.
This track is quite different from our other pieces, a more lilting tune with plenty of space, punchy shuffle drums and oriental percussion opening out into soaring rock organ harmonies.
THE BEGINNING
Actually, the basic theme for this track was the very first thing Dmitry played on his Yamaha Motif when it came out of the box back in 2004 when he was living in London.
So City Folk reflects the rhythm of urban life, and we’ve dedicated it to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a city where arts meet business, Georgian architecture blends with super-modern structures, and the River Tyne flows through it all.
THE MIDDLE
Koos and Dmitry ran into serious technical trouble with this track – we won’t bore you with the details, suffice to say, we had to take the hard drive apart with a drill…
THE END
But we managed to salvage it all in the end, and Chris Longwood did a great job on the master, so we’re proud to present: CITY FOLK.
You can stream and download the track on all the usual channels:
STREAM:
Spotify: https://goo.gl/dCSyCv
Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/62190575
Microsoft Groove: https://goo.gl/z5MypA
YouTube: https://youtu.be/sae_zbBnlqA
Rhapsody: http://goo.gl/P3edTl
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/13395567
DOWNLOAD:
MQ Shop: https://metaquorum.greedbag.com/buy/city-folk-3/
iTunes: https://goo.gl/BzCQyX
Google Play: https://goo.gl/Dwucxp
Bandcamp: http://metaquorum.bandcamp.com/album/city-folk
Amazon: https://goo.gl/QxjAoL
Juke: http://goo.gl/snLgex
Medianet: http://goo.gl/37VvGa
Gobuz: http://goo.gl/l4L1sb
Release Date: 10/07/2016
Time: 3:53
Written and arranged by Dmitry Ermakov.
Keyboards, synth and key bass, vocals – Dmitry Ermakov.
Drums, audio-engineering – Koos van der Velde.
Recorded, produced and mixed by Dmitry Ermakov & Koos van der Velde @ Low Bishopley Studio & Market Place Studio, Weardale, UK.
Mastered by Chris Longwood @ SugarHill Recording Studios, Houston, TX, USA.
Cover art by Dmitry Ermakov.
© Dmitry Ermakov, 2016.
℗ Dmitry Ermakov & Koos van der Velde, 2016.
UPC: 5056052738465
ISRC: UK-682-16-24115
CAT N.: MQN009
WHAT NEXT?
We’ve got one more single ready to release in September and are working on a couple of EPs, so we’ll have lots of new stuff for you in the Autumn.
Meantime, have a relaxing summer!
Koos, Carol, Dmitry
2 Something to take your minds off Brexit or… CYBER FUNK IS LIVE!
The latest in our volley of new singles, Cyber Funk. Here’s what Dmitry has to say about it:
“I was curious to see how we could fuse some elements of IDM dance music into our meld style – although I don’t listen to IDM much, I do like some stuff, so for this track we used an IDM-like drum sequencer for the first few bars, alternating it with Koos live on his Roland V-drums kit. Fun!
And of course, we love our funk, so Cyber Funk is partly a tribute to George Duke and his fantastic instrumental funk.
And we called it Cyber Funk because, well, it’s a cybernetic sound!” 😉
We had some technical trouble with this one, but rather than bore you with the details, we wanted to share our ‘eureka moment’ with you 😉 (Thanks for capturing it on film, Carol!)
And you can listen to the finished product here:
STREAM:
Spotify: https://goo.gl/Fru2y6
Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/60950721
Microsoft Groove: https://goo.gl/npoGQF
YouTube: https://goo.gl/2cUVUD
Rhapsofy: http://goo.gl/Kp4gCs
Shazam: http://www.shazam.com/track/319822089/cyber-funk
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/13181292
DOWNLOAD:
Greedbag: https://goo.gl/jlqQB1
iTunes: https://goo.gl/USlXkT
Google Play: https://goo.gl/xsYlim
Bandcamp: https://goo.gl/HTBmXR
Amazon: https://goo.gl/WGtB6n
Digital Tunes: https://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/cyber_funk
Juke: http://goo.gl/kWByLb
Junodownload: http://goo.gl/q3p779
Medianet: http://goo.gl/pwkWd7
Gobuz: http://goo.gl/9qe2n0
Roaring dance sequencers and G-Funk leads combined with jazzy piano improvisation, slap and Boogie synth bass, strong, upbeat drums, Go-go percussion and Electro Funk vocoder – Cyber Funk is a rollicking Funk Jam piece, an unusual meld of several styles and beats.
Release Date: 28/06/2016
Time: 5:01
Written and arranged by Dmitry Ermakov.
Keyboards, synth and key bass, vocoder vocals – Dmitry Ermakov.
Drums, audio-engineering – Koos van der Velde.
Recorded, produced and mixed by Dmitry Ermakov & Koos van der Velde @ Low Bishopley Studio & Market Place Studio, Weardale, UK.
Mastered by Chris Longwood @ SugarHill Recording Studios, Houston, TX, USA.
Cover art by Dmitry Ermakov.
© Dmitry Ermakov, 2016.
℗ Dmitry Ermakov & Koos van der Velde, 2016.
UPC: 5056052738458
ISRC: UK-682-16-24114
CAT N.: MQN008
Hope all this has cheered you up!
We’ve got one more track in the pipeline, out next month, so we’ll be in touch again soon.
Meantime, stay well!
Carol, Koos & Dmitry
0 Junodownload Review for The Piper & The Frog
While checking whether our new single #CyberFunk, coming out today, is a good to go on the digital outlets, I #StumbledUpon this #review on #Junodownload for our previous #single The Piper & The Frog. Since it was written by a #user, most probably a #DJ, it is quite funny and fresh and I like it a lot so wanted to #share it with you 😉 Check it out below. It is right under the track @
1 MIDNIGHT SUN (Remastered) is Live
Midnight Sun (Remastered) was released on 18 June through all our usual digital distribution channels. And we are waiting for a bunch of limited edition CDs to arrive later next week. Why the need for Remaster? , you may ask. Well, the original master wasn’t really loud enough and it didn’t have this ‘big sound’ we developed for the 2016 releases. So Dmitry decided to remaster the album so that it comes closer to this new sound. We think it was a success. The tracks sound bigger and more 3D with many nuances coming to the fore. Give it a listen and see for yourself 🙂
http://metaquorum.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-sun-remastered
Cheers,
MQ
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