Neo-Prog
Poland
The polish progressive band Collage are somewhat legendary within the genre. With several albums under their belts, their album Moonshine is considered a staple within the subgenre. Collage eventually broke up, but Wojtek Szadkowski still had the fire within him. "I wanted to go back to the beginnings, to playing music spontaneously, music which could be played without any barriers, to feel this fresh breeze of creativity again. ... It was like a new beginning for me. I wanted to start from the scratch to feel creative again, and to feel a particular uncertainty, which one can experience only in the beginning of writing new music for a totally new project."
Initially, Satellite started as a solo project for Wojtek, but took on a completely different life of it's own. He finished some vocals and arranged some basic background, but some textures were better provided outside of himself. He met Sarhan Kubeisi, who ironically was a drummer in a friend's band. After hearing him play so beautifully on a song, he knew he had his guitarist.
Wotjek needed a vocalist...plain and simple. So, who better than his old bandmate from COLLAGE than Robert Amirian, who also plays bass. Remarks Wotjek, "Great, distinctive voice, very fluent English language and outstanding sensitivity. Robert agreed to participate". On keyboards, he brought on another Collage alum in Krzysiek Palczewski. Natural comparisons to Collage are expected.
A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset debuted on March 10, 2003. It's follow-up, Evening Games (2006) reached number 8 at the top 100 best selling albums in Poland.
In 2007, Satellite were invited to play the famous Baja Prog Festival in Mexico and released Into The Night towards the latter part of the year. Since then they have added bassist, Jarek Michalski to the band, freeing Robert to concentrate on vocals.
Eric Walker (USA)
ALBUMS :
2007 - INTO THE NIGHT
Musicians
- Robert Amirian / vocals, bass
- Sarhan Kubeisi / guitars
- Krzysiek Palczewski / keyboards
- Wojtek Szadkowski / drums
- Jarek Michalski / bass
1. Into The Night
2. Dreams
3. Downtown Skyline
4. Lights
5. Don't Go Away In Silence
6. Heaven Can Wait
7. Forgiven And Forgotten
Bonus tracks (available only on the digipak edition (MMP CD 0560 DG):
8. Around The World
9. Time Stands Still
2009 - NOSTALGIA
Musicians
- Robert Amirian / vocals
- Saharan Kubeisi / guitar, acoustic guitar
- Jarek Michalski / bass guitar
- Wojtek Szadkowski / keyboards, acoustic guitar, drums
With
- Krzysiek Palczewski / additional keyboards
- Amarok / some additional keyboards, last guitar solo on ''Is it over''
1. Every desert got its ocean (9:13)
2. Repaint the sky (6:56)
3. Afraid of what we say (8:47)
4. I want you to know (7:20)
5. Over horizon (8:04)
6. Am I losing touch? (9:45)
7. Is it over? (7:30)
Total Time: 57:39
Bonus tracks on CD digipak
8. The color of the rain
9. Relaxed
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