Press Releases
We have two separate press releases; the first is a mainstream new release, the second is geared toward a prog rock audience.
Bay Area Music Compilation CD to be Released in Internationally-Distributed Magazine
San Jose, CA "BayProg — Progressive Rock from the San Francisco Bay Area" is a new compilation CD featuring 12 Bay Area progressive rock bands, each showcasing their unique creative talents. The BayProg CD is being distributed free in the next issue of Exposé Magazine, the world's premier periodical dedicated to the burgeoning progressive rock music scene.
This CD is the first of its kind in the Bay Area and brings together 12 of the top progressive rock acts in the region. The bands on the BayProg CD offer an astonishing range and variety of music that will satisfy not only progressive rock aficionados, but also those who listen to other styles of music with an ear toward expanding their musical horizons.
Exposé Magazine (www.expose.org) is featuring the BayProg CD free in its Spring, 2002 issue, due out to subscribers in March (single issues of Exposé are available — see website).
With nearly 70 minutes of top-notch progressive rock, including some exclusives, this is expected to immediately become a collectible CD. It features progressive rock from Bay Area artists Michael P. Dawson, Gravity Tree, Metaphor, Mind Furniture, Monocaine, Amy X Neuburg & Men, New Sun, Puppet Show, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Spirits Burning, Tesseract, and TRAP.
Exposé is a quarterly publication specializing in the creative music the record and radio industries choose to ignore in their tightly-limited playlists. Its focus is outside the mainstream, in the progressive and experimental musical areas where rock meets jazz, classical meets folk, electronic meets avant-garde, and so on. BayProg (www.bayprog.org) is a web site of resources for San Francisco Bay Area progressive rock musicians and fans.
The progressive rock music landscape has been improving in the last 10 years, after a sharp two-decade decline from its glory days in the 1970s, when the creative music of bands such as Yes, Genesis, Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Pink Floyd and others enjoyed 'mainstream' commercial status. Today, thanks in large part to the communications and promotional avenues offered by the internet, coupled with technological advances in home and studio recording, there are arguably more bands now producing this creative and dramatic music than ever before. Overviews of the progressive rock music genre can be found at gepr.net or ghostland.com among hundreds of other prog rock web sites, including webzines, internet radio, CD reviews newsgroups, and many other resources.
San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Rock Compilation CD to be Released in Next Issue of Exposé Magazine
San Jose, CA "BayProg — Progressive Rock from the San Francisco Bay Area" is a new compilation CD featuring 12 Bay Area progressive rock bands. The BayProg CD (www.bayprog.org) is being distributed free in the next issue of Exposé Magazine, the world's premier periodical dedicated to the burgeoning progressive rock music scene.
This CD is the first of its kind in the Bay Area and brings together twelve of the top progressive rock acts in the region. BayProg takes the listener through a number of known progressive rock sub-genres, including symphonic, rock-in-opposition, neo, space, ambient, and chamber... but also delves into a few styles with which even the typical prog rock listener may not be familiar, which might be called post-apocalyptic, or even avant-cabaret art-rock-circus. As a whole, the great variety of the music on this CD will not only satisfy the progressive rock aficionado, but may even persuade fans of other styles of music to stretch their musical listening boundaries.
Exposé Magazine (www.expose.org) is featuring the BayProg CD free in its Spring, 2002 issue, due out to subscribers in March. Single issues of Exposé are also available — see website. Exposé is a quarterly publication specializing in the creative music the record and radio industries choose to ignore in their tightly-limited playlists. Its focus is outside the mainstream, in the progressive and experimental musical areas where rock meets jazz, classical meets folk, electronic meets avant-garde, and so on. BayProg (www.bayprog.org) is a web site of resources for San Francisco Bay Area progressive rock musicians and fans.
With nearly-70 minutes of top-notch progressive rock, including some exclusives, this is expected to immediately become a collectible CD. It features progressive rock from Michael P. Dawson, Gravity Tree, Metaphor, Mind Furniture, Monocaine, Amy X Neuburg & Men, New Sun, Puppet Show, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Spirits Burning, Tesseract, and TRAP.