Nad Sylvan is best known to Genesis fans as the voice of the Steve Hackett Band. For some years now, however, Nad has also been active as a solo artist, and we examined his Vampirate trilogy in a detailed website special.
Now a new solo album will be released at the beginning of April: Spiritus Mundi. In a nutshell, the album is based on poems of W.B. Yeats. The album will contain a total of nine tracks and two bonus tracks:
01. The Second Coming (7:00)
02. Sailing to Byzantium (6:41)
03. Cap and Bells (4:47)
04. The Realists (2:18)
05. The Stolen Child (4:58)
06. To An Isle In The Water (4:36)
07. The Hawk (4:09)
08. The Witch and The Mermaid (1:57)
09. The Fisherman (5:28)
Bonus Tracks
10. You've Got To Find A Way (5:55)
11. To A Child Dancing In The Wind (5:08)
Nad says: “After I had finished my trilogy, I thought what should I do now? Well, a couple of years ago, a songwriter by the name of Andrew Laitres asked me if I could sing on a song he was working on. It ended up on my previous album The Regal Bastard as a bonus track called The Lake Isle of Innisfree. I was thinking I'd like to work with this guy again to see if we can come up with something together. So, I listened to some of his demos and I thought, why don't we develop these songs together into proper songs with great arrangements. I suggested this to him and he was in.”
You've Got To Find A Way was already released as a teaser for the album last year (we reported), but will only be found as a bonus track on the album. The tracks The Fisherman and The Stolen Child are also already available. The album Spiritus Mundi will be released on 9 April via InsideOut (Digital album, Digipak CD and 2LP) and can already be pre-ordered at InsideOutEU and InsideOutUSA.
Album Line-Up:
Nad Sylvan - lead & backing vocals, keyboards, orchestration, electric & acoustic guitar, bass, drums, programming
Andrew Laitres - lead and backing vocals, acoustic nylon, steel and 12 string guitars, additional keyboards
Tony Levin - bass
Steve Hackett - 12 string guitar
Neil Whitford - electric guitar, slide guitar Jonas Reingold - bass
Mirkko De Maio - drums, congas
Steve Piggot - additional electric guitar
Kiwi Te Kanna - Oboe, chinese flute
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