Prog collective Unitopia have introduced they’ll launch a brand new reside Blue-ray/CD and USB, Alive And Kicking, by means of progrock.com’s Necessities label on March 7.
The brand new launch was recorded on the band’s tour in help of 2023’s Seven Chambers album at a gig at Zoetermeer’s well-known Boerderij venue within the Netherlands on September 14, 2023.
“We threaded the needle to make this tour occur,” explains label boss Mark Monforti. “Alphonso Johnson was unavailable and Don Schiff needed to study the present in 4 weeks. Chester Thompson had a foul case of tendinosis and requested to get replaced however got here anyway, Mark Trueack was unable to face for lengthy intervals, the band got here from six totally different timezones and hadn’t met till three days earlier than their present.
“John Greenwood and I needed to donate cash to get the manufacturing values to the place they wanted to be for the seven-show tour. It was solely acceptable that they had been touring an album concerning the frailty of the human situation.”
Fashioned in Australia in 1996 by singer Mark Truack and keyboardist Sean Timms, the band launched 4 revered albums earlier than splitting in 2012, with Timms forming Southern Empire and Truack United Progressive Fraternity. The band reformed in 2020 with an all-new line-up together with Chester Thompson and fusion legend Alphonso Johnson.
A Fifteenth-anniversary version of Unitopia’s 2010 album Synthetic can be to be launched in 2025 together with Truack’s personal Save US EP.
The USB model of Alive And Kicking features a high-quality mp4 of the live performance video, 48kHz 24-bit stereo audio tracks, and lyric movies. The Blu-ray, along with the stereo combine, features a selectable DTS encompass combine by band violinist Steve Unruh.
Unitopia: Alive And Kicking
CD 1:
1. Damaged Coronary heart
2. Introduction of Seven Chambers
3. One thing Invisible
4. The Stroke of Midnight
5. Mania
6. The Unsure
CD 2:
1. Tesla
2. The Backyard
3. The Nice Reward
Blu-ray
1. Damaged Coronary heart
2. Introduction of Seven Chambers
3. One thing Invisible
4. The Stroke of Midnight
5. Mania
6. The Unsure
7. Tesla
8. The Backyard
9. The Nice Reward
