MALS, 2008
January 2008i- the album is published on Russian progressive rock label MALS.
June 6th 2007 - a long-expected release of EW's first studio album The Door to a Parallel World.
The album consists of seven compositions, with total time 53 minutes. The compositions are various - there are guitar instrumental pieces (The Door to a Parallel World, Visions of the Lost World), "epic" rock ballads (How Long I'd Been Facing the Dark, Too Close to Heavens), a classic lively hard rock song Ride Without End, energetic No Way Back, and at last complex and intricate Revival.
The album can't be called fully conceptual, in a sense that every following composition is not a sequel to a previous one in contents. But at the same time they all are united with one theme - parallel worlds in diverse meanings: parallel world is space, fantastic planets, cities gone into nonentity, man's inside world, his fantasies and unexplained yearnings...
Not everything was done completely in the way EW desired - some tracks could be played or recorded better, some could be better mixed... But it is known that it's possible to perfect things infinitely, therefore it is necessary to stop. This album has become invaluable experience for EW, and we hope that next releases will be better and more perfect.
It is possible to tell much, but it's better to listen to the music once that to read a hundred reviews. :)
Special respect to Dmitry Shtatnov for design of the CD cover.
January 30th 2007: the first EW studio album recorded!!!
The album called The Door To A Parallel World is close to Art Rock. There are of course some elements of electronic music, but here they are additional to rock motives. Drums are recorded at the Moscow studio FM Division.
Drums: Sergey Nikonorov. Drums for No Way Back are recorded by Sergey Alyamkin.
Tracks are mixed and mastered at Millennium Studio, sound engineer is Ilya Dontsov .
Compilation Music For Brains-4: Grand Finale
(appendix to Salon Audio Video magazine № 4-2008)
The CD presents twelve Russian bands playing in styles close to progressive rock. Among the participants are the bands friendly to EW Inner Drive and Quorum. EW are presented with the composition How Long I'd Been Facing The Dark.
Compilation Electroshock Presents Electroacoustic Music Vol. IX
Electroshock Records, 2004
In 2004 Electroshock Records has presented the compilation Electroshock presents Electroacoustic Music Vol. IX. Producer: Artemy Artemiev. The compilation includes works by musicians from The Netherlands, Mexico, USA, Great Britain, Russia and Italy. Russia is presented with the composition of EW Sufferer's Dreams.
Compilation Electroshock Presents Electroacoustic Music Vol. VII
Electroshock Records, 2002
In 2002 Electroshock Records has presented the compilation Electroshock presents Electroacoustic Music Vol. VII. Producer: Artemy Artemiev. The compilation is a double CD including works by musicians from France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Mexico, USA, Poland, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Israel, Estonia and Russia. Russia is presented with the composition of EW Message From Space. It is an extended version of the electronic-psychedelic piece, the previous variant of which has traditionally served as an introduction to the demo-CDs. A new version logically continues the first one and lasts more than seven minutes.
CompilationFollowing The Sun. The Compilation Of Another Music
Landy Star Music, 2001
In June 2001 a CD Following The Sun. The Compilation Of Another Music was published on label Landy Star Music. Producer: Odyssey Bogussevich. It includes 16 pieces, two of which belong to EW - Sacred Ways and Space. The CD comprises different non-traditional directions and styles of music: a tangle of jazz, acid jazz, funk, ethnic music and folk music; "multy-fusion", psychedelic and art rock.
In March 2001 EW recorded a new demo-CD, which includes five instrumental pieces:
1. Message From Space (intro) 03:36
2. Eternal Desert 11:13
3. Visions Of The Lost World 10:38
4. Running In The Chaos 4:53
5. Sacred Ways 4:09
Total time 34:29
Visions Of The Lost World and Sacred Ways are new guitar compositions. Eternal Desert and Running In The Chaos were considerably changed as compared with the previous versions, especially in mixing. And only Message From Space has remained absolutely intact as intro for this disc.
In August 2000 EW recorded a single containing two pieces:
1. The End of Millennium 6:46; 5:28
2. Running In The Chaos 4:51
These are hard rock compositions with the elements of psychedelia.
The End of Millennium has full and shorter versions. It is rather a hard rock song than a psychedelic one.
Running In The Chaos is a guitar instrumental, it is rather a psychedelic piece than a hard rock one.
In 2000 EW recorded a demo-disc consisting of six pieces:
1. Message From Space (intro) 03:36
2. Born To Suffer 11:00
3. Motionless Chaos (Part 2) 07:51
4. No Dawn Anymore 09:47
5. Eternal Desert 11:12
6. Space 04:58
TOTAL TIME 48:47
In 2005 EW finished working with five compositions for the electronic album. The album was supposed to be published at Electroshock Records, but these plans didn't come true. Now EW are making some corrections and re-recording vocals for future release.
At present EW are laso working with a new art-rock album. The album will consist of eight compositions. Follow the updates :)
