06.20.07
Posted in General at 12:38 am by Administrator
Welcome to the Umbrello Blog! This is our very first entry, so just hang with us and try to be patient, as we get our bearings and start this train to rolling. We’ll be providing you with Umbrello artist information, Umbrello site related updates and other interesting news items.
First up — Umbrello artist Anton Roolaart and his band will be performing in concert on June 21st, at “The Saint” in Asbury Park, New Jersey. They’ll be performing some tracks from Anton’s recently released CD - Dreamer, which is getting great reviews. Don’t miss this one… it’ll be a great show!!!
June, 21 2007
The Saint
601 Main Street
Asbury Park, New Jersey 07712
Showtime : 8:00 pm
Cost : $8.00
Also…
Stayed tuned in for some very exciting tour related news from The Syn, coming soon!
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06.27.07
Posted in Interviews at 7:30 pm by Administrator
Source: Music Web Express 3000
http://www.mwe3.com/home.htm
http://www.mwe3.com/archive/pastfeature/feature-syn05-07.htm
CONSPIRACY leads to SYN
an interview with CHRIS SQUIRE and STEPHEN NARDELLI
By Robert Silverstein
On November 2nd, 2005, I had a rare opportunity to interview Chris Squire and Steve Nardelli. Both were in L.A. to promote the arrival of Syndestructible, the new studio album from The SYN, a band the two formed back in 1965 and had reformed in 2005. Much has happened since Syndestructible and the Original Syn including a 2006 live DVD and a 2007 SYN CD, entitled Armistice Day. Chris Squire has since left the SYN but as this archive interview intends, it’s worth taking a look back at the aftermath of Syndestructible and the Fall of 2005…
Before he went on to carve out musical maps with Yes, Chris Squire was a member of prog-pop innovators The Syn—along with Yes / Flash guitarist Peter Banks, singer Stephen Nardelli, drummer Martyn Adelman and the late, great keyboard orchestrater Andrew Pryce Jackman. Although they made inroads with several acclaimed releases, The Syn ceased to exist by the time Yes burst on the scene with their self-titled Lp debut in 1969. In 2005, 40 years on, Stephen Nardelli has reteamed with Chris Squire for an album magnificently etched in that classic U.K. paisley pop / ‘60s symphonic rock sound, echoing the super studio production techniques explored by Yes on any number of their decade spanning releases. To better control their group’s destiny, Squire and Nardelli made a move to establish their own record label, Umbrello, as well as a planned TV station entitled The One TV.
Underscoring the Syn history, Umbrello have released a double CD Syn set of ‘60s sides backed by some newly reformed 2004 Syn tracks with Pete Banks on guitar entitled The Original Syn 1964-2004 and a brand new 2005 Syn group lineup and CD entitled Syndestructible.
History seems to repeat with this latest departure of Banks, while in comes Yes bass great Chris Squire to finally place the Syn legacy up front and center . Even without the illustrious guitar skills of Pete Banks, Squire and Nardelli made a great move enlisting the support of the Stacey brothers—guitarist Paul Stacey, fresh from his work with Oasis, and his twin brother/drummer Jeremy Stacey.
Credit should also go to Paul Stacey who produced, engineered while playing great electric guitar on Syndestructible. Commenting on working with rock icons, Paul Stacey adds, ”Close To The Edge is one of the greatest albums of all time and had a huge influence on me as a musician. It’s great to be playing with Chris Squire. I even have a Squire signature Rickenbacker in my guitar collection. Steve Nardelli has a great voice, Gerard Johnson is a super musical talent on keyboards, and Martyn Adelman is really getting back into the groove as a drummer. I want to make a fantastic album with The Syn, something people will remember in 30 years like Close to the Edge. I know we can do it!”
Syn are off to a great revival with Syndestructible, even though Squire claims Yes are just on a long holiday for this year. In L.A. on November 2, 2005 Chris Squire and Stephen Nardelli spoke with Robert Silverstein in NYC about the second coming of The Syn, forty years after the start of the band.
This interview was written and conducted during the first week of November 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma which left so much destruction in that last week of October 2005. With my parents having been dealt, what would turn out to be, an insurmountable blow by Wilma in South Florida I decided to go ahead with the interview. In a slight state of future shock, I spoke by phone in New York with Steve and Chris, who were in L.A. The article originally appeared in an abridged version in the January 2006 issue of 20th Century Guitar magazine. In recent interviews and on his web site Chris Squire has stated that he has left The Syn and has not fully endorsed their current CD, Armistice Day. Even so… it’s worth taking a look back at that great vibe created by the Syndestructible CD. -editor Read the rest of this entry »
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