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Kalle Wallner
Violit District
Trenkwalder
BLIND EGO,
an astonishing new project with ex-members of Arena and IQ.
Hidden Timbre, a band which was fronted by beautiful leadsinger and Kalles's ex-wife, Anja. But she has left the band in 2009.
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Chris Postl
Chris is the bass player of the RPWL and was an original member. He left the band for a couple of years, but happily he's back, always solid, always in for a yoke and
i think he's responsible for some great sounds in the rpwl team.
Violit District
Trenkwalder
Lemming
Kebra Negest
Saiten Wind
Groovepain
Parzivals Eye
A new project of Chris with;
Please check out his myspace site and be flabbergasted. The songs sounds really suberp. Listen to "Wide World", amazing isn't?
Nice smooth songs that will remind you of Genesis (Trick of the Tail), the Beatles, Beach Boys, but also some links to the Alan Parsons
Project. And that's not alone because of the presents of Mr Ian Bairnson. But the link to RPWL, Blind Ego and Floyd isn't far away.
And yes you can hear Chris does a long time job in, with RPWL, but he gives his own twist to these gentle songs.
Christina does an excelent job with her golden voice (listen to "Disguise"). She really can grap you. Who knows Alan Reed of Pallas know that he's has a very
pleasant way of singing. Chris himself sings a few songs too and his voice fits very will in the atmospheres he creates.
Ian is absolute in form with his remarkable licks (listen to "Longings Ends" or "Skylights").
"Longings End" is another songs that belongs to the highlights of this album, it grows, it's excited and it cointains some fabulous steel guitar work.
I really enjoyd this soft rock songs with a lot of layers thru the headphones, there are so many things to explore. Really a new
big star from the RPWL family.
8++ out of 10.
And if you're there, check out Chris Postl Page to: "Chicago", it's the last song on the player. Christinas voice is again powerful and moody and the guitar solo of Ian Bairnson is fabulous.
You can find an other version of this David Crosby cover at David Gilmours page.... ;-)
But this version with Christina and Ian with a leading role is suberp too.
Release date 090909!
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YOGI LANG.
One of the driving forces of the band RPWL. A friendly, peaceful guy with an open charisma. He used to play keyboards in rpwl, but nowadays he
concentrate on singing and doing his act. Sometimes he grabs his moog and joins the magic Markus on keys.
Yogi is busy with an solo album for a long time, he joined forces with Guy Pratt,
yes the bass player of David Gilmour and or if you wish Pink Floyd.
Release date; fall 2010.
News July 2010:
Soloalbum „No Decoder“
We’re proud to announce to you as the very first ones to know, that Yogi’s Soloalbum is almost finished and ready for its release. This is what he wrote to you:
„Kalle and Chris have already been releasing their solo-pieces. With my following Album ‚No Decoder’ I will be providing the last mosaic piece to this special something that represents the RPWL sound. I’m very proud that I had a really great band in the studio for the recordings: Our good old friend Manni Müller on drums, Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd, Roxy Music) on bass guitar and Torsten Weber (The Doors of Perception) on guitars. Of course I also have lots of guests like for example Anne de Wolff (violin) or Domi (singer of Lazuli) and many others. Be excited, the album will be released on the 5th of November 2010.
Best wishes from the studio,
Yogi“
Review:
RPWL's Kalle Wallner and ex-bass player Chris Postle released a solo album earlier, Yogi always stated that he would write some own stuff too.
He took his
time and it was worth to wait.
Yogi didn't had to prove that he was able to write songs on his own, he already wrote so many things in RPWL that touched many
Music lovers all over the world, but the question was maybe; which road he would travel?
I was pleased to hear that Guy Pratt was asked play bass for the whole album, Guy is a great player. He played many years with David Gilmour, so
the link to this master of Tunes is obvious.
This is indeed an album that David Gilmour and late Richard Wright could have made. Nice melodic songs, with dept, moody songs about life, passion
and the world we live in.
One of the facts that increase this feeling ('a Floyd solo album') is the guitar playing of Torsten Weber. We know that Kalle Wallner
in RPWL is compares often with David Gilmour, but Kalle puts his own sound in it. I think Torsten Weber is a nickname for David Gilmour ... and i mean
this as a big compliment.
He plays his guitar in line with the atmosphere of the songs and lifts them to goosebumps level.
Older fans of RPWL know that Yogi played keyboards and he did that well, on this album he takes care of all them again. And he does
an excellent job, sometimes
as lead instrument but often with little gimmicks, loops that make it worth to listen to the songs over and over again. There's a lot to explore.
The use of violin and sax add the extra dimension. The accordion on "Alison" (sung by Domi of Lazuli) isn't my thing, a bit to sweet.
Yogi runs a recording studio and that is one the things that works in his advantage, he was able to make layers and added harmonies & sounds,
carved and polished till it became really exciting.
"Sens Value" is the counterpoint of the album, could be a James Bond theme, rocky catchy and again my thoughts go to David Gilmours album "On an Island"
and the song "Take a breathe".
Conclusion: this my cup of tea; superb! This will be one of the highlights of 2010 with the excellent production and atmospheric tunes.
Yogi Lang confirmed just in time for his release the first live-dates. We are glad to inform you as the first ones about the details:
Live Line-upp.
Yogi stated: "I'm very proud to announce such a great line up for the tour in march and april!!!:
An interview at my friends plac: Backgroundmagazine.nl.
So now and then special things happen. Like a performance with a all star Freising tribute band July 2010:
Home again.