Eloy de Jong - The Vision The Sword And The Pyre: Part I - VINYL LP

Part 1 has already attracted a lot of attention worldwide because of it's extraordinary musical design and blend of sounds. It has received top marks in the media, achieved remarkable chart placings, and also attracted attention on a cultural level because of it's authentic, completely uncoloured factual content. In order to bring the listener very close to all the details and avoid romanticising the story, the author describes the events without comment from the perspective of Jean de Metz, the faithful companion in arms and confidant of the heroine. There are therefore no individual interpretations of the historical events in the sung texts and spoken contributions. Next to the music, it was important to the author to create a work based exclusively on proven real events, and therefore as close as possible to the truth. It was also important to him not only to boldly illustrate the well-known passages and stages of the fate of the Virgin of Orleans in words and music, but to capture all the events within their entire context and reproduce them unabridged in sequence. Although many years of research have made Bornemann profoundly knowledgeable about the story, he has attempted to get even closer to the core of the truth by studying the sources intensively in order to decipher details of the events in the Middle Ages, which remain puzzling to this day and controversial among experts. Olivier Bouzy, the director of the Centre Jeanne d´Arc in Orleans, who helped to clarify some of the background issues thrown up by the complicated questions, supported him in his research. With Part 2 of his opus, Frank Bornemann has certainly come closer to his goal of creating a very special work, which is not only musically impressive, but also emotionally profound and moving. It will take the listener and surely, later, as a stage version, the audience on a moving a journey to a fasc

Vinyl LP pressing. With the growing desire for earlier works by Eloy, the German flagship of art and progressive rock according to the music press, Destination was originally released in 1992. As vinyl records were almost completely out at that time in the early nineties, Destination is now being released as a physical product on vinyl for the first time. Destination is an album on which we processed and mixed many different inspirations and stylistic elements. Although bassist Klaus Peter Matziol picked up the bass for the band again for the first time during production, the material was mainly the result of a collaboration between Michael Gerlach and myself, and the result was a mixture of atmospheric but also very rocky sounds, whereby I challenged myself with my own vocals and we filled out the still not completely new line-up with various other instruments. After the success of it's predecessor RA, which immediately catapulted Eloy back into the official German album charts after a three-year break, there was a lively spirit of optimism. The sound and the melange of the music worked as planned. (Frank Bornemann, 2023)

RA was the beginning of a new era for Germany's most successful art and progressive rock band ELOY. The previous formation had split up completely. But band's founder, singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer Frank Bornemann was still bursting with ideas that he wanted to pursue on the hitherto so successful path. In keyboardist Michael Gerlach, he finally found a like-minded partner who was able to find his way into the band's musical visions and create soundscapes with his perfectly suited equipment that, in combination with guitar and vocals, led to unique compositions. RA addresses a topic that, from today's perspective, seems almost prophetic in view of the fatal developments on our planet and in society. Eloy mastermind Frank Bornemann explains today that, even back then, it appeared humanity was already taking it's first steps towards a new era, the consequences of which were still unforeseeable in detail, but which would irreversibly change our lives completely. The scenario on the album, which the core content of RA ultimately defines and depicts still exceeds some of the limits of today's events but is no less exciting for that. The music is undoubtedly absolutely unique.