Astrakhan - Retrospective - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

CD reissue. 2013 . When Retrospective was released back in 2013 the worlds magazines turned their views towards this new band from Sweden. Is this a Inchsuper groupInch from Sweden featuring members from Pain of Salvation, Royal Hunt, Evergrey? Apart from musicians that was familiar faces from the prog scene Astrakhan was fronted by Sweden's best vocalist - Alex Lycke. Alex experience from the international world of musicals was some-thing else than your regular rock singer. His deep, rich voice and stage presence is the reason he's been doing leading parts in Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Miss Saigon, Chess and Les Misérables all over Europe. Album Tracks 1. Lonesome Cry 2. Take Me with You 3. What You Resist Will Remain 4. Never Let You Go 5. Youtopia 6. Until It Ends 7. Control 8. M.E 2020

2020 was the year of the pandemic and caused so much grief and pain for the world and every musician. For the members in Astrakhan, that has been professional musicians for 25 years, it raised the question that maybe it was time to call it a quit. But this journey really started in 2018 after the successful tour Astrakhan did, playing Jesus Christ Superstar in concert. The plan to do a tour and play music from Jesus Christ Superstar tells you a bit of how Astrakhan work as a band. It may seem like an impossible idea for a fairly unknown band to actually make such a tour happen but Astrakhan have always been guided by their visions rather than the obstacles. Astrakhan never take any short cuts and they have big visions and they make them happen. To pull off these shows in big theaters and concert halls in Scandinavia as both producers and performers almost teared the band apart. When the recording of this album started in 2019 the band was loaded with a bunch of dark songs centered around questions like if it was still worth all the effort it takes to play in a band. Some thought it was not, and when the recording was done Jörgen Schelander left the band. Astrakhan started and was based around the Schelander brothers and now one of them was gone. Maybe this should have marked the end of Astrakhan but the music still needed to be heard since it really captured the feeling and state of the band and that's what music should be based around - a reflection and expression of where you are in life right now! This album is crammed with all the frustration, anger and sadness that comes when your companion just ruin everything you worked to build up for many years. A slow ride towards death is an album filled with emotions around the pain of broken relationships, broken dreams and an endless love and passion to music - the anchor in life and the only relationship we'll never let

A rock musical shall of course be performed as a rock band and the music from Jesus Christ Superstar is here performed by the classic/prog rock band Astrakhan featuring members from Pain of Salvation, Royal Hunt, House of Shakira etc. A live album should also give you the feeling of being one in the audience on a magical night - and this album is everything of the above. Album Tracks 1. Heaven on Their Minds 2. Whats the Buzz/Strange Thing, Mystifying 3. Everything's Alright 4. Simon Zealotes 5. Poor Jerusalem 6. Pilates Dream 7. The Temple 8. I Don't Know How to Love Him 9. Damned for All Time/Blood Money 10. The Last Supper 11. Gethsemane(I Only Want to Say) 12. Judas Death 13. Trial Before Pilates (Including Drum Solo) 14. Superstar