14.04.2010

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03.08.2009 - A happy outcome is worth waiting for - recordings for the upcoming album Blue Room will be finished soon. The material sounds brilliant and we promise some good stuff.

 

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17.05.2009 - excellent photos of our "support for SAGA gig" on 3rd May '09 at Z 7 Pratteln can be seen here

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28.03.2009 - Summers End Festival Lydney 2008

We are delighted to announce that Official festival photographer Chris Walkden’s superb photos of Summers End 2008 can now be seen here

 

 

 

 

 

 

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30.11.2008 - now available for download:

a special Director's Cut of our album "Crying Of The Whales" with the newly mixed title track in an epical length of more than 25 minutes.

Please visit our shop.

 

1. Crying Of The Whales / Part I - A Salty Sting - The Journey - Part II (25:27)

2. Whale Massacre (13:08)

3. Part Of Evolution (3:06)

4. Nature's Voice (5:44)

5. Point Of No Return (6:18)

6. All These Walls (8:34)

7. Journey's End (7:33)

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29.11.2008 - We have been invited to support SAGA at the famous Z7 Konzertfabrik, Pratteln (CH) on 3rd May 2009

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30.11.2007 - next gig confirmed - 2. Feb. 2008 - Movie Bielefeld

 

more info in German here

 

 

15.10.2007 - Peter Schlüter has left the band for personal reasons

 

Good Luck for the future, Peter!

 

 

11.10.2007 - ProgFarm Festival - 03.11.07  in Bakkeveen, Holland

 

We are looking forward to this famous event organized by Flamborough Head. See you in Bakkeveen!

 

 

08.09.2007 - Summer`s End Festival

 

We are very sorry to have to inform you that we have to cancel our participation at the Summers End Festival because of unexpected occupational reasons.

 

14.04.07 - Gig with Lana Lane and Rocket Scientists

 

it was a great pleasure for us to play with such excellent musicians. Thanks a bunch to Erik Norlander, Lana Lane, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, Mark McCrite, Ernst van Ee, Peer Verschuren and the whole team. Some impressions here and here

 

 

07.03.2007 - next gig confirmed: 14.04.07 Irrlicht, Spenge-Bünde - together with the famous Rocket Scientists & Lana Lane

 

more info: www.timelessrock.de

 

 

16.02.2007 - Abarax confirmed for Summer`s End Festival

 

We're delighted to have been added to the line up for Summer's End Festival '07, taking place at the Robin2 Club in Bilston, Wolverhampton/England on September 15th & 16th 2007, where we will appear alongside It Bites, Pain of Salvation, Solstice, Whimwise, Yesterdays, Tinyfish & Also Eden.

 

more info: www.myspace.com/summersendfestival 

 

 

 

 

27.02.2006 - CD release "Crying Of The Whales"

 

our album "Crying Of The Whales" is available now at your trusted record store or online shop (CD-ID is CYCL 153). You'll find a supplier link-list in our shop-area. Please let us know if you have any problems to purchase the cd.

 

 

29.01.2006 - abarax live at the "PROCKfest 2006"

 

great prog events are often forshadowed - abarax live together with some of the world-famous progrock artists. 10.11. + 11.11.2006  - Stadtgarten Bünde/Westf. - Germany more info coming soon, please visit www.prockfest.com

 

11.01.2006 - our label Cyclops about "Crying Of The Whales"

 

Once again CYCLOPS have discovered a fantastic new progressive group. Abarax are a four piece band playing a brand of symphonic progressive rock music with its roots firmly in Pink Floyd territory.

"Crying Of The Whales" is a rock music epic describing the imaginative truth about the whales and the reasons for their existence.

The concept album of just over an hour of music is made up of eight tracks ranging from just over 3 minutes to 12 and a half minutes with even the shortest giving scope for thematic development. The real highlights of this album though are Dennis's soaring guitar solos. His guitar style owing much to Dave Gilmour, Nick Barrett and Bryan Josh. Much like RPWL their style owes a lot to Pink Floyd yet they have taken it on to create their own sound. The album is not just guitar work, there are keyboards aplenty, again with fine soloing, acoustic guitar and great vocals. Although there is the obvious message about the plight of the whales it is not detrimental to the music as it is the source of the soulful ambiance that pervades this album.

An album of power and grace that will appeal to those who like their symphonic progressive music with plenty of great guitar workouts.

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Abarax est un quatuor jouant un rock Progressif symphonique dont les racines plongent fermement autour de PINK FLOYD.

"Crying Of The Whales" est une suite de musique rock relatant d'une vérité imaginaire à propos des baleines et des raisons de leur existence.

Ce concept-album dépassant tout juste une heure est constitué de huit morceaux de durée allant d'à peine plus de 3 minutes à 12 minutes et demi, où même le plus court laisse une place à un développement instrumental. Les temps forts de cet album sont toutefois les solos de guitare qui constituent de vraies envolées. Le style du guitariste s'apparente à celui de Dave GILMOUR, de Nick BARRETT et de Bryan JOSH. Au même titre que RPWL, le style de ABARAX doit beaucoup à PINK FLOYD, pourtant les musiciens ont bien choisi de créer leur propre identité sonore. On n'y entend pas que l'œuvre d'un guitariste, les claviers sont également très présents, donnant également lieu à d'excellents soli, la guitare acoustique et le chant remarquable ne sont pas en reste non plus. Même si le message sur la détresse des baleines est évident, ceci ne pèse pas sur la musique, constituant une source d'ambiances mélancoliques qui imprègnent cet album. Un album mêlant puissance et grâce, qui saura séduire tous ceux qui aiment la musique rock Progressive symphonique et où l'on entend beaucoup de grande guitare.

 

01.01.2006 - new homepage launched

 

after the new years party and lots of coffee we decided to put our new design into action. Please feel free to listen to some sound samples and to comment your thoughts in our guestbook. We wish all progrock fans a brilliant new year with lots of great music, gigs and new albums to listen to.