Lovely stuff!

Ah, thanks :*

There's a new review of the album in French and it seems to be pretty positive.

https://progcritique.com/glass-island-the-damage-report/

Excellent, I'm so happy for you! Now we can both put singing backing vocals for Heather Nova on our CVs :D

Excellent, congrats!!

No mention of refugees indeeed during the show and I totally forgot to ask her about it during our chats.

Rathher modest attendance, about 200 people but really great atmosphere last night. So much so that Heather did an extra encore! I didn't perform this time but I got to chat to her both before and after the show. Overall a great concert, thank you Gerd!

Thank you! :)

I've just put a three-cam version of London Rain up - featuring shots by Gerd and another person who kindly sent their footage:

https://youtu.be/In3deSGMTQk

Lovely pics and looks like a very nice venue.

That's fine, my brother's footage was good enough :)

Fingers crossed!

So, I actually put together a clip using my brother's footage - the quality is pretty good. The audio is a matrix of the soundboard recording and the audio from the video - to add some more space and audience noise :)

https://youtu.be/fsmYWB1BVkg

Oh, Gerd, in my PM to you I forgot to ask for your vid, do send it if it's possioble. I have the official audio and my brother's film, I'd like to put together a 2-cam video of the performance :)

What a great show and what a treat for me to share the stage with Heather! Thank you so much Gerd for your encouragement, it was so cool to hang out with you and your brother too :)

Oh, cool, thank you for letting me know about that. I had no idea, I have been that much up to date with everythig because I'm super busy at work and with my own music (both promotion of the new album and a totally new project).

Excellent, see you there!

So, anybody else going to this gig? I know I am.

The album is out now!

You can listen to it on all major streaming services following this link:
https://glassisland.hearnow.com/thedamagereport

The CD and download are up on BandCamp (you'll get an alternative edit of the album as a bonus with those):
https://glassislandpoland.bandcamp.com/album/the-damage-report

Do check it out!

Thank you E! Although I used stock photos as source material, the whole concept as well as all the editing was entirely mine and I have to say I'm really happy with the end result. I didn't necessarily want to do that myself but having to rely on other people is, well, time-consuming and I like to work fast. I mean, it's my third album within one year after all! :D

Check out this short video presentation of the CD:
https://youtu.be/Sglw80OOCyI

Big news! The new Glass Island album - "The Damage Report" - is coming out on 7th October. It will be available on all major streaming services while the CD version can now be pre-ordered at BandCamp. The first single – “Vanity Unfair” – is now available at Youtube and BandCamp.

BandCamp link: https://glassislandpoland.bandcamp.com/.../the-damage-report

YouTube: https://youtu.be/eMWiVyca6E8

Do check out the song, I think it's pretty good. And I'm proud of the album cover too :)

Nice song, nothing surprising or particularly special but very pleasant to listen to. And Heather's voice still sounds great.

The full video of our performance in Wrocław this April is now available on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYXsbq ... 9eQtMuvQI4eNYq9P9XZL3p2Ty

The video is a bit rough but the audio is very high quality - it was recorded onto multitrack so we could really make sure the mix is right.

It's a fun show - our sound man Krzysztof Witos joins us on piano for a few tunes, a lot of the songs are augmented by additional pre-recorded tracks, so the arrangements are varied, despite the minimal line-up. We played 8 tracks from the album, one from my Glass Island project, one by my old band Lavender and several covers. No Heather songs this time but did Garbage and Roxette amongs others. Do check it out!

Here's a vid of Joanna, Marzena Słowik, myself and Tomasz Trojnar recording the harmonies for the final chorus of Pale Into Insignificance set to an acapella mix of that section:

https://youtu.be/_7ohvjgXfmY

Thank you so much! It's very satisfying to finally have done these songs properly.

This is not a drill, the whole album is now out:

https://strangemoments.hearnow.com/

https://strangemoments.bandcamp.com/album/strange-moments

Do check it out and let me know what you think!

The second "single" - What You Wish For - is now up on youtube.

https://youtu.be/Lp0tFife2pk

The pre-order at BandCamp is now up:

strangemoments.bandcamp.com/album/strange-moments

You can now listen to the opening track - Detuned - in full on youtube:

https://youtu.be/RGtVSNtfMNE

Check it out!

Thank you!

The first single is coming this Friday.

Finally proper news: the album is coming out on 25th March. It will be available on all major streaming platforms and a CD will be available for purchase at Bandcamp. The first single, album pre-order and concert dates coming soon.

In the meantieme, check out the trailer with clips from all the songs on the album:

https://youtu.be/bqPyxCakjjw

Thanks man! And I do want to stress I find the forums useful.

I have been an ocassional user over the ears and it seems like the forums were always there. I am aware that movement has been pretty slow so I can totally understand you contemplating shutting them down. It would be sad, though.

I have to confess my imput has been minimal and has really now gone down to basically self promotion, I'm afraid. But I've continued posting since a couple of people (including your good self Gerd) have been pretty supportive. I do want to add I still quite regularly read other people posts, I just don't feel I have much to contribute.

Thanks guys, yeah I've been told that before. I have to say I don't think in terms of images while making (or listening to) music at all but it would be an interesting challenge to score a short film if someone made an offer :)

I've just released a new, intrumental Glass Island track called "Ghost Line". You can check it out here:

https://glassislandpoland.bandcamp.com/track/ghost-line

track info:

"Ghost Line" was written towards the end of the sessions for the first album but was not considered for it, as the tracklist had been firmly established by then. Neither did it feel like it fitted the direction I wanted to go on the second album (to be released next year) so the decision was made to release it as a standalone single.

It marks a double first for Glass Island - it's the project's first instrumental track as well as the first ever track published to feature myself playing the bass guitar.

WFAGLY is a beautiful song, befinitely my fav Foreigner ballad.

Thank you :*

Check out this little video presentation of the digipack:
https://youtu.be/CIXml1co_vw

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I need to put that on a sticker and place it on the CD :D

Thank you so much for your lovely words.

I've been a Pink Floyd fan since I was a kid in the early 90s. Anmd yeah, the bells may bring High Hopes to mind but they signify something different in my song. Btw, the bells in HH are actually themselves a callback to a much earlier PF song called Fat Old Sun.