NEAL MORSE & THE RESONANCE announce ‘No Hill For A Climber’; launch first single "All The Rage"
NEWS SOURCE: Royal Avenue Media September 6, 2024
Throughout his long career, Neal Morse has often been a musical collaborator, usually with some of the greatest prog musicians across the world. This time, Morse has brought that collaborative spirit closer to home. The new album by Neal Morse & The Resonance – entitled ‘No Hill For A Climber’ will be released 8th November 2024, and the title is taken from a resonant line in Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead.
It has its roots at the end of 2023, as Morse explains: “I started thinking about what I was going to do in 2024, and my wife suggested that I should think about doing something with the amazingly talented younger guys that we have here locally – like Chris Riley, Andre Madatian and Philip Martin. I knew just how good they were from playing with them at our Christmas concerts and other events.”
These local musicians were supplemented by Joe Ganzelli (drums) and Johnny Bisaha, who performs much of the lead vocal work, as Morse explains: “While composing ‘No Hill For A Climber’, I was hearing a lot of higher range vocals –so I contacted Johnny Bisaha, who came over, listened to the music. loved it and started singing for me. And I immediately thought, ‘Oh man, he's the guy!’”.
To coincide with the announcement, the track ‘All The Rage’ has been launched with a brand new video. Watch it now here:
Neal comments: “’All the Rage’ was the second track that I recorded with the guys. I had written it with them in mind and we tracked it pretty quickly. We wanted more of a live feel so we did quite a bit of it without a click track, which became a bit of a challenge for me during the piano solo section! I am super happy with the way the song came out and I really feel like you can hear the energy of the band in the track!”
The album will be available as Limited 2CD Digipak (incl. a second disc of instrumentals), Standard CD Jewelcase, Gatefold 2LP & as Digital Album.
1.Eternity In Your Eyes 20:51 2.Thief 05:22 3.All The Rage 05:32 4.Ever Interceding 06:29 5.No Hill For A Climber 28:49
Faithful to any Neal Morse prog album, ‘No Hill For A Climber’ features two epics (the 28 minute ‘No Hill For A Climber’ and ‘Eternity In Your Eyes’, which clocks in at 22 minutes) as well as three shorter songs: ‘Ever Interceding’, ‘All The Rage’ and ‘Thief’. The latter, Morse admits, is his current favorite: “It’s so different… it’s in all these different sections, and I’m really happy with the way each part has come out. It’s pretty crazy. There’s even a really cool King Crimson-style instrumental bit in the middle that Chris Riley originally came up with at the Radiant School a couple of years ago.”
For all of these reasons, Morse believes that the whole album is unique, but notes that “if I was going to compare its structure to an album I've done in the past, it might be along the lines of ‘Bridge Across Forever’ or Spock's Beard’s ‘V’; it’s not that it sounds at all like those albums, it’s just structurally similar. It has voices and playing styles and soundscapes that many people will have never heard before! Everyone you work with changes you a little bit, so even I sound a little different on this one, but I hope that everyone will love it!”
This Friday, March 28, 2025
ALBUMS Anchor Hymns The Garden (Live) [Integrity] Anike The Rap Pack - EP [Reach] Mack Brock Beloved - EP [Centricity] Eben Brusco Offering House - EP (independent) Steve Camp Fire and Ice (Remastered Collector's Edition) [Girder] CXMMXNS Chapter 2 - EP [Provident] Lawrence Hancock Undefeated [LVP] The Heritage HOME [Bowyer & Bow] Memphis May Fire Shapeshifter [Rise] Red Rocks Worship The King Is Coming [Provident] Edwrin Sutton The Savior 1.0 (Volume 1) [Blacksmoke]
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