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Postby tater1977 » Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:36 am

Vortex - Neal Schon

http://usa.mascotlabelgroup.com/nealschon-vortex.html

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RELEASE DATE 22 June 2015


CD Digipack $12,99
2LP $20,00

Tracklisting

CD1
1. Miles Beyond
2. Awakening
3. Cuban Fly Zone
4. El Matador
5. Eternal Love
6. In a Cloud
7. Irish Cream
8. Lady M (Our love Remains)
9. NS Vortex

CD2

1. Tortured Souls
2. Schon & Hammer Now
3. Airliner NS910
4. Unspoken Faith
5. Twilight - Spellbound
6. Triumph of Love
7. Mom
8. Talk to Me
9. White Light

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Re: Pre-order Neal Schon Vortex

Postby tater1977 » Thu Apr 30, 2015 2:02 am

Neal Schon And Music Theories Recordings / MLG Announce The Release Of Vortex On June 23

X Premieres Lead Track "El Matador" from Double Disc All-Instrumental Album Featuring Legendary Guitarist Schon With Keyboardists Jan Hammer And Igor Len, Alongside Journey's Steve Smith

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/neal-scho ... 00823.html

NEW YORK, April 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mascot Label Group's Music Theories Recordings and Neal Schon have announced the release of Vortex on June 23. The 2-CD all-instrumental album utilizes rock as its foundation, while also embracing elements of jazz, classical and world music in an 18-track stunning, sonically explosive collection of original compositions. The release is dedicated to Schon's best friend and wife, who serves as his true inspiration every day (Both "Lady M" and "Triumph of Love" were written for her, the latter of which he performed at their wedding on December 15, 2013). Schon shares, "This is an evolutionary album for me. I've always aspired to be a better player and push musical boundaries. And sure, I've sold 80-million records with Journey, and I'm proud of that, but this album is really me — all based on my guitar, which is my 'voice.' It's bold. There's love, and there's definitely fire and an element of danger. And the energy level is off the hook."

That's evident from the first, mysterious-sounding measures of "Miles Beyond," the scalding tribute to jazz genius Miles Davis' pioneering fusion recordings that opens the album. The tune blends Schon's soaring leads, tectonic plates of grinding rhythm and brilliantly layered melodies within an arrangement that embraces Middle Eastern flourishes plus flashes of African drumming by Steve Smith. "Schon & Hammer Now" is a furious jam between the guitarist and his longtime friend and creative foil, Grammy-winning keyboardist Jan Hammer, whose many accomplishments include charter membership in the groundbreaking Mahavishnu Orchestra. And the two match their brilliant technique and relentless invention throughout, sparring with the grace and speed of a young Mohammad Ali. Schon reveals, "Jan is all over this album. I wrote the material to give Jan room to stretch. There are not many three-minute ditties. It's all huge, epic, bombastic…futuristic." After hearing the completed album for the first time, Hammer made a succinct observation, "This is f****** amazing."

"Airliner NS910" is further proof. It's all speed and swagger, with Schon skywriting the song's sweetly singing theme in the indelible vapor trail of the instantly recognizable operatic tones of his signature model Paul Reed Smith guitars. He reflects, "Since Vortex is a two-record set, it's both my ninth and tenth solo albums. That's where the 'NS910' comes from."

The music of Vortex originated in the hard drives that Schon is constantly filling with ideas for riffs, melodies and chord progressions at home. But they came to life at Berkeley's Fantasy Studios, his preferred spot for recording since Journey cut the 10-times-platinum number-one album Escape there in 1981. Schon states, "It's my home away from home. I spend so much time there that they've given me my own locker."

Schon produced and played bass on Vortex, too, and was joined in the studio by Smith and keyboardist Igor Len. Hammer and Len also appeared on Schon's seventh solo album, The Calling, which was followed by the blues-inspired hard rock album So U. He offers, "Igor and Jan complement each other, and me, beautifully." And Vortex's "Eternal Love" is a testament to Len's creativity. The song, a richly emotional ballad, features Len alone on piano. The guitarist observes, "He sat down and played the tune spontaneously, and it was so gorgeous and deep that I had to have it on my album." Schon offers his own reflective solo performance on Vortex with the sparsely arranged acoustic guitar meditation "Mom," dedicated to his mother, Barbara Schon. He reveals, "Like most of the performances on this album, it wasn't premeditated. I'd just pick up a guitar and tell my engineer Jesse Nichols to hit ProTools."

The intensely creative guitar giant has always had a seemingly innate ability to make glorious music. He began playing at age five and was inspired by soul vocalists like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, and blues and jazz guitarists ranging from B.B. King, Albert King and Eric Clapton to Wes Montgomery. When Schon was just 15 years old, Carlos Santana invited him to join his band. Schon's recording debut was on the classic 1971 album Santana III. He played the solo on the LP's hit single "Everybody's Everything." Recently Schon has been working with Carlos Santana on a new album, co-writing songs and playing key performances including homecoming Santana concerts in Guadalajara and Mexico City that included Journey as the opening band.

Schon formed Journey in 1973 and has led the band through its astonishing 42-year history. Along the way Journey has sold well over 80 million albums, amongst which the band's Greatest Hits release was certified Diamond by the RIAA for sales in excess of 10 million copies. To date sales now exceed 15 million copies. Eight other Journey album releases have been certified multi-platinum. Neal Schon co-wrote the timeless hit "Don't Stop Believin,'" which now holds the title as the most digitally downloaded song in history. Seventeen additional Journey singles were Top 40 hits. Schon has received multiple Grammy award nominations for both his work with Journey and his solo recordings, and Journey has been nominated for the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.

Besides solo albums and tours and his historic work with Journey, Schon has an extensive history of blue-ribbon collaborations. These include co-founding the supergroup Bad English and forming bands with vocalists Paul Rodgers and Sammy Hagar. He released two collaboration albums with Jan Hammer, Untold Passion and Here To Stay, while also performing on releases from Michael Bolton, Return to Forever's Lenny White and many others.

One thing he's never done is considered resting on his laurels. Schon reflects, "I feel more aware and alive now than I've ever been. Part of that is the sobriety I've had for the last seven years. I've also evolved as a person and a player though understanding the value of being in the moment – letting things happen and not thinking too much. There's an old blues saying: 'If you're thinkin', you're stinkin'. When you stop thinking and just play from the heart, you discover your own voice. That's the real thing, and that's what Vortex is about for me."

For more information contact:
Steve Karas
SKH Music
skaras@skhmusic.com
917-420-0728
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Re: Pre-order Neal Schon Vortex

Postby tater1977 » Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:54 am

Exclusive Song Premiere: Listen to 'El Matador' From Journey Guitarist Neal Schon's Upcoming Solo Album

By Gary Graff, Detroit | April 29, 2015


He's touring with Journey, finishing up a Santana reunion project and has a new solo album coming out.

Look up "busy" in the dictionary and you'll likely find a photo of Neal Schon.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/colum ... e-premiere

"I'm really busting ass this next year and this year," Schon tells Billboard. "I'm so busy I don't have a free day. I barely have a day off 'cause I bit off so much. But now that I'm in it, I'm not willing to go, 'Y'know what, man? I'm tired.' I'm a little fried, but everybody goes, 'You look great.' I'm feeling good and health-wise I'm really good, so I'm just gonna do it."

The two-disc Vortex, whose title comes from a recent nickname for Schon bestowed by Carlos Santana, reunites Schon with early '80s collaborator Jan Hammer, after the keyboardist dropped in on 2011's The Calling. "I had sent Jan a couple tracks to play on for (The Calling) and I hadn't worked with him since the '80s, so we rekindled our friendship and renewed everything," Schon says. "For this album I went to him ahead of time and said, 'I'd love for you top-lay on this record but I'd love you to stretch out more and I'm gonna leave some open space,' and he said, 'Great.' He worked on it in his own studio and just killed it, man."

Working on basic tracks with former Journey drummer Steve Smith, Schon says many of Vortex's intricate compositions were created on the studio floor without a great deal of forethought -- "El Matador" being a case in point. "That just came together from a little drum loop I had at my house, and it just kind of unfolded from there," Schon recalls. "When I got to the studio we had the groove happening and I orchestrated it a bit with some violin guitars; we tried keyboards but I preferred the guitars and I just tried to orchestrate it and make it sound interesting. I added a little Spanish section in the middle and put some nylon-string guitar on and it took on a whole different flavor, but I love it. I think it's one of the more commercial tracks on the album. It's not that long; most of the tracks on the record are pretty epic, and some of them are suites, but there's plenty of fire in this track to grab people's attention, I think."

Listen to "Matador" below, which Billboard is exclusively premiering below.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/colum ... e-premiere


Schon plans to give Vortex a live airing during the Les Paul 100th birthday tribute concert on June 9 at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York. He has designs to do a solo tour as well but will have to fit those between his other endeavors. Journey begins its nine-show residency on Wednesday night (April 29) at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, which Schon predicts will be "really great. We're gonna be mixing up the set, so we won't be playing the same thing every show. We've rehearsed a lot of stuff that we didn't play in our tour last year, but we'll have time to rehearse even more." All nine shows will be recorded and filmed, according to Schon, and he also hopes that during downtime Journey will start working on new material.

"I've been trying to get things going," Schon reports. "I have a few ideas, just everybody's been in different places and we haven't gotten together yet. But we could probably put together a couple songs while we're rehearsing in Vegas, maybe get 'em in movies or play some new stuff live. That'd be fun."

Schon has been spending time in Las Vegas recently finishing up the Santana IV lineup, which reunites original and Santana III era members. Schon says the project is largely finished and "sounds like the old band picked up where we left off. It sounds like Santana. We're having a blast together." There's no word yet on when the album will be released, but after playing a couple of Santana/Journey shows in Mexico last year, Schon has a vision for how a tour to support Santana IV could be realized.


"We'll absolutely tour," Schon promises, "and we're moving forward to try to make that happen, a co-headline tour which could be very, very interesting because you can go in a chronological order, which would be the early Santana, from Woodstock, before I was in the band. Then it would move to early Journey and do a couple of the progressive tunes we did with Greg Rolie and then go through the rest of the Journey catalog, old and new, all greatest hits and then some of our newer stuff with Arnel (Pineda). And then Santana would come on, the new Santana, and we would play the new record. I don't see a better package out there that is making my eyebrows go up and making people go, 'Yeah, I want to see that.'"
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Re: Pre-order Neal Schon Vortex

Postby koberry » Thu Apr 30, 2015 11:45 am

I'd travel to see this dual bill
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Re: Pre-order Neal Schon Vortex

Postby perryfan61 » Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:31 pm

koberry wrote:I'd travel to see this dual bill


That would be an awesome concert, if it ever happens. Neal can't seem to stop, he's going at almost a frantic pace, and still no new music for Journey . I liked "El Matador ", but not sure I would enjoy 2 Cd's worth!!
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Re: Pre-order Neal Schon Vortex

Postby The_Noble_Cause » Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:51 pm

Thanks for posting. Good to hear that Neal has some ideas for new Journey tunes.
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Re: Pre-order Neal Schon Vortex

Postby Majestic » Tue May 05, 2015 1:20 pm

Love the new song! Looking forward to the album.
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Re: Pre-order Neal Schon Vortex

Postby JourneyHard » Wed May 06, 2015 6:47 am

tater1977 wrote:"I've been trying to get things going," Schon reports. "I have a few ideas, just everybody's been in different places and we haven't gotten together yet. But we could probably put together a couple songs while we're rehearsing in Vegas, maybe get 'em in movies or play some new stuff live. That'd be fun."



Get 'em in movies? Neal is listening to me. Neal is on the right track.
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Re: Pre-order Neal Schon Vortex

Postby tater1977 » Thu May 14, 2015 11:23 am

Journey guitarist Neal Schon has made his solo track Tortured Souls available for download.

It’s available now in return for your email address.

The piece is taken from his instrumental double-album Vortex, to be launched on June 23 via Mascot Label Group.

http://www.teamrock.com/news/2015-05-13 ... s-download
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Re: Pre-order Neal Schon Vortex

Postby perryfan61 » Thu May 14, 2015 11:42 am

tater1977 wrote:Journey guitarist Neal Schon has made his solo track Tortured Souls available for download.

It’s available now in return for your email address.

The piece is taken from his instrumental double-album Vortex, to be launched on June 23 via Mascot Label Group.

http://www.teamrock.com/news/2015-05-13 ... s-download



Downloaded it, but 10 minute guitar solos are not really my thing.
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Re: Pre-order Neal Schon Vortex

Postby Majestic » Thu May 14, 2015 4:17 pm

tater1977 wrote:Journey guitarist Neal Schon has made his solo track Tortured Souls available for download.

It’s available now in return for your email address.

The piece is taken from his instrumental double-album Vortex, to be launched on June 23 via Mascot Label Group.

http://www.teamrock.com/news/2015-05-13 ... s-download


Got mine! I think it's a pretty good song with a nice finish. El Matador is also very good, so that's two songs so far making Vortex look interesting.
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