 5th studio album from Kalle Wallner (guitarist of RPWL)
Format: CD / Cat No: GAOM081 / Released: 29/11/2024
Track Listing: 1. The Hunting Party (5:47) / 2. The Stranger (4:52) / 3. Spiders (5:50) / 4. Boiling Point 0 (5:43) / 5. In a Blink of an Eye (7:14) / 6. Breathless (7:35) / / 7. When the Party's Over (5:50)
More information: BLIND EGO is back! The guitarist of the German Prog band RPWL Kalle Wallner releases "The Hunting Party", which pushes the pedal down considerably in favour of rock elements, but still retaining Prog elements.
The new album is his fifth studio album since his debut in 2007. He also released a live album in 2017 and his "almost-instrumental" album "Voices" under his own name in 2022. Wallner never seems to run out of ideas or the desire to produce - despite his main band RPWL, his own label Gentle Art Of Music, his recording studio and many other projects as a producer and guitarist.
For "The Hunting Party" Wallner has once again worked with author Dominik Feiner, but this time the workflow was exactly the opposite: the lyrics were written first and Wallner composed the music. "I'm always looking for new challenges, such as writing on a specific topic as part of a team for RPWL. 'Voices' was more or less an instrumental album and now, for the first time, I composed to finished lyrics instead of finding the lyrics for the music," explains Wallner. You can hear this inspiration in the songs: they sound fresh and unspent, they are very varied, have hard and soft tones, are sometimes driving and quite complex rock songs and sometimes ballads. All these elements come together on "The Hunting Party" to form a very special unity.
Line-up: Kevin Kearns - vocals / Kalle Wallner - guitars, bass, keyboards, programming / Yogi Lang - keyboards / Michael Christoph - drums
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