Prolific Damanek multi-instrumentalist Marek Arnold has shared the official video for the track “A Time Of Mystery” taken from debut solo album “Marek Arnold´s Artrock Project” out on 2023 via Tempus Fugit. Watch the video through the YouTube player below:
The track is taken from Marek Arnold’s ArtRock Project album, his debut solo release which saw the light of day towards the end of last year. “A Time Of Mystery” is the third EP to be released to promote the new album, and features three different versions of the title track; the album version, an exclusive piano and vocal version, and a specially shortened Radio Edit designed for airplay in commercial radio with its running time just below three minutes. The final track on the EP is an excerpt from the epic “Berlin 2049 Suite,” which looks at the cutting-edge topic of Artificial Intelligence.
“A Time Of Mystery” features Manuel Schmid on vocals from the veteran German Rockers Stern-Combo Meißen while “Berlin 2049 Suite” features vocalist Larry B, who has also worked with Stern-Combo Meißen as well as featuring in Arnold‘s first ever band, Prog metallers Toxic Smile.
The guest-packed album was inspired by Uwe Treitinger, organiser of the established Artrock Festival Reichenbach/Vogtland, who had the idea for a “hymn” for the festival, asked Marek to do it and both asked well-known guest musicians.
The album features guest performances from Tiger Moth Tales‘ Peter Jones, Marco Minnemann, Craig Blundell, Gary Chandler, Luke Machin, Jane Getter, Derek Sherinian, Adam Holzman and more…
Purchase the album on Bandcamp: https://marekarnold.bandcamp.com/album/marek-arnold-s-artrock-project
Tracklist:
- A Story Of Separation And Lost (16:24):
a.) Preview
b.) No Place Like Arirang
c.) Review - Stay (8:27)
- A Time Of Mystery (4:00)
- Papillon (10:20)
- Come Away With Me (4:24)
- Cold Run (6:24)
- Berlin 2049 (26:49):
a.) Berlin
b.) Rain Will Fall 1
c.) Leave Well Enough Alone
d.) Rain Will Fall 2
e.) Riding The Line
f.) Reason To Lie
Lineup:
Marek Arnold (Seven Steps To The Green Door,Flaming Row, Toxic Smile, Cyril, Damanek) / Composition, Lyric, Production, Keyboards, Saxophone, Clarinet, Tenor/Soprano Recorder, Seaboard, Background Vocals, Programming
With:
Vocals
Peter Jones (Tiger Moth Tales, Camel, Colin Tench Project, Reed Bazar)
Arno Menses (Subsignal, Sieges Even, Journeye)
Larry B. (Toxic Smile, Cyril, Stern Combo Meissen)
Manuel Schmid (Stern Combo Meissen)
Anne Trautmann (Seven Steps To The Green Door)
Melanie Mau (Melanie Mau & Martin Schnella, Gray Matters, Flaming Row)
Kiri Marie Geile (Flaming Row, Steel Protector)
Zeynah
Eric Castiglio
Andre Weller (Seven Steps To The Green Door)
George Andrade (Seven Steps To The Green Door)
Drums & Percussion
Marco Minnemann (Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats, The Sea Within, The Mute Gods, +)
Craig Blundell (Frost*, Pendragon, Steven Wilson, Steve Hackett, +)
Sebastian Lanser (Panzerballett, Obsidious, Obscura, +)
John Macaluso (Yngwie Malmsteen, Symphonie X, ARK, Michael Romeo, James LaBrie, +)
Niklas Kahl (My Inner Burning, Erdling, Lord Of The Lost, Flaming Row, Joachim Witt)
Dominique „Gaga“ Ehlert (Dark Suns, +)
Ulf Reinhardt (Seven Steps To The Green Door)
Simon Schröder (Persona, Melanie Mau & Martin Schnella, ISSUN, Cryptex)
Bass
Laurence Cottle (Black Sabbath, The Alan Parsons Project, Bill Bruford’s Earthworks, Clapton, +)
Lars Lehmann
Piotr Witkowski (Collage, Mr Gil)
Robert Brenner (Toxic Smile, Seven Steps To The Green Door, Stern Combo Meissen)
Yenz Strutz (Crystal Palace)
Marco Bernard (The Samurai Of Prog)
Denis Strassburg (Cyril)
Martin Schnella (Flaming Row, Gray Matters)
Martin Fankhänel (The Laterizer, Seven Steps To The Green Door)
Guitars
Kalle Wallner (RPWL)
Gary Chandler (Jadis)
Martin Schnella (Flaming Row, Gray Matters)
Martin Fankhänel (The Laterizer, Seven Steps To The Green Door)
Marcella Arganese (Ubi Major, Mr. Punch)
Luke Machin (The Tangent, Maschine, Francis Dunnery Band)
Jane Getter (Jane Getter Premonition)
Jörg Sweikowski (Chorin Night)
Stephan Pankow (Seven Steps To The Green Door, Toxic Smile, smalltape)
Keyboards, Organ & Synthesizers
Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Planet X, Sons of Apollo, Black Country Communion)
Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson, Michel Petrucciani, +)
Alex Grünwald (Münchener Freiheit)
Marius Leicht (POLIS, Mother Engine)
Sean Timms (Unitopia, Southern Empire)
Luca Di Gennaro (Soul Secret)
Wind & Brass
Steven Tailor, Flute (Toxic Smile´s Classic Extension Orchestra)
Luis Márquez, Oboe
Claude Lumley, Horn
Yakiv Tsvietinskyi, Trumpet
Strings
Steve Unruh, Violin (Resistor, The Samurai Of Prog, Unitopia, UPF)
Markus Dreßler, Violin, Viola
Carmen Dreßler, Cello
Lyrics
George Andrade (SSTTGD)
Torsten Schomann (Toxic Smile)
Guy Manning (Damanek)
Final Mix / Mastering: Martin Schnella
Artwork: Ed Unitsky / Janine Roje´