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ANUBIS SPIRE
» genre:
Rock >
Progressive Rock
» location:
Bill MacKechnie
» label: unsigned
» for fans of: Pink Floyd,Mahavishnu Orchestra,Led Zeppelin,Page and Plant,Jimi Hendrix, Peter Gabriel
» latest album:
"Children Of A Foreign Faith"
16 tracks
running time 68:00
$14.95
16 tracks
running time 68:00
$14.95
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Children Of A Foreign Faith - Anubis Spire
NEWS
~January 17th
**** A.S. releases THE OLD KINGDOM COLLECTION on Flash Drive! The Old Kingdom Collection contains ALL the music (FORTY ONE songs!) from ANUBIS SPIRE's first three critically acclaimed albums plus all the original graphics and pictures! Considering you get all three albums and a great 1 GIG re-usable flash drive for LESS than you'd pay for the three CD's alone you can not get a better deal! Here's the song list:
~ Old Lions:
1)So Be It
2)It Has Been A Long Time, Hasn't It...
3)Into The Four Winds
4)Underneath The Roswell Sun
5)More Weight
6)Gone West
7)Ransom (I'll Take My Chances)
8)Eternal Resonance (LIVE Excerpt)
9)Road To Damascus
10)The Prisoner's Song
11)Amida Rising
12)May This Be Forever
13)Anubis Rising
14)Talisman Of The Dreamer
15)Old Lions (in the world of snarling sheep)
~ Back To Abydos:
16)Revenants
17)Back To Abydos
18)Drama, Trauma and Awkward Grace
19)Hope In Transition
20)Two Fools Left (Live Bass Solo)
21)Blues For Akhenaton
22)Love From Nothing At All (Live)
23)Delta To Delta
24)Same Book/New Pages
25)Whirling Toward Shambalah
~ Children Of A Foreign Faith:
26)Lies
27)Remember Me
28)I Have Been Waiting
29)Not Even A Day
30)Edge Of Time
31)Children Of A Foreign Faith
32)Adrift
33)Tombs On The Hill
34)Down Here
35)All Perception is Wrong
36)Western Wall
37)Youre So Beautiful (The Music Biz Song)
38)Eternal Resonance (Part 2)
39)Waterline
40)Something you Dont Know
41)Walking The Wire
Order HERE!
http://www.indiedrive.com/loadArtistInfo.php?recordId=51&mode=view
~ January 8th
**** COFF now available on FLASH DRIVE! Children Of A Foreign Faith
is now available on a great RE-USABLE flash drive. Until now if you
wanted to buy your favorite band's music you could either buy a CD or
a digital file. The beauty of buying COFF on a flash drive is VALUE.
Not only do you get our spiffy album (ALL our albums will be there
SOON....) but a really cool and very useful drive as well! It's
absolutely the BEST deal you'll find, so if you've been putting off
purchasing music because you just don't have room for ANOTHER jewel
case...check it out!!!
~ indiedrive | The place to buy USB flash-drive albums.
(http://www.indiedrive.com/) We're listed under ROCK.
**** MANY THANKS to the bidders for MSJ's auction of our autographed
copy of COFF! It sold for $17.50 and we're extremely happy that you
all helped with such a worthy cause. Please watch for MORE great
autographed CDs and other great stuff here: MSJ EBAY
( http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZklingonmusicfan )
~ Faith
January 03, 2008
Autographed CHILDREN OF A FOREIGN FAITH on EBAY!
Category: Music
Our good friends at MUSIC STREET JOURNAL (click their icon in our top friends to learn more) are auctioning a few copies of KILLER prog CDs by GREAT bands (and us too!) on Ebay. All $$ goes to help support the MSJ cause and keep the indie flag flying. Please check out all the details, here's the link to our CHILDREN OF A FOREIGN FAITH cd autographed by the whole band:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150201839992&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fws%2Fsearch%2FSaleSearch%3Fsofocus%3Dbs%26satitle%3D150201839992%26sacat%3D-1%2526catref%253DC5%26dfsp%3D1%26_trksid%3Dm37%26from%3DR7%26nojspr%3Dy%26pfid%3D0%26fsop%3D1%2526fsoo%253D1%26fcl%3D3%26frpp%3D50%26fvi%3D1
If for whatever reason, the link doesn't work just go and put in the ITEM NUMBER 150201839992
We hope you bid high and often! :-)
~ Faith
~ December 17th
For Immediate Release.
ANUBIS SPIRE gives away album for the holidays.
New York, December 17th:
ANUBIS SPIRE has announced that they are making their latest album "Children Of A Foreign Faith" available for free download until the 1st of 2008. The album, which has garnered praise from critics and fans alike has become the band's best selling offering to date, surpassing in sales ( in a mere six months ) their popular 1998 debut "Old Lions (in the world of snarling sheep)" which continues to sell well a full decade after it's release. "Children Of A Foreign Faith" has drawn comparisons to the concept albums and ambitious rock operas of the 70's and the works of such legendary bands as Dream Theater and Pink Floyd. While it's lyrics deal primarily with the effects of child abuse and all of the life repercussions that it entails, the music, true to course and in patented Anubis Spire style, winds it's way through multiple musical genres yet always remains supportive of the overall concept and mood.
The band said that they decided to offer the free full album download to both thank fans for all their support and to allow those who cannot afford the CD or high resolution paid downloads, a chance to still have a copy of the album. It will be available until New Year's day at www.Soundclick.com/childrenofaforeignfaithanubisspire There are instructions at the page on downloading and burning the album to disk so that it is exactly sequenced and assembled as the commercial release. Songwriter/guitarist Bill MacKechnie said "All we really ask those who download the material is to please share it with those they think might appreciate it. We made it for those who have ears to hear it and think that nothing should stand in the way of bringing it to you. Especially money."
The band is currently back in the studio and promises even bigger news in 2008.
###
**** A.S. releases THE OLD KINGDOM COLLECTION on Flash Drive! The Old Kingdom Collection contains ALL the music (FORTY ONE songs!) from ANUBIS SPIRE's first three critically acclaimed albums plus all the original graphics and pictures! Considering you get all three albums and a great 1 GIG re-usable flash drive for LESS than you'd pay for the three CD's alone you can not get a better deal! Here's the song list:
~ Old Lions:
1)So Be It
2)It Has Been A Long Time, Hasn't It...
3)Into The Four Winds
4)Underneath The Roswell Sun
5)More Weight
6)Gone West
7)Ransom (I'll Take My Chances)
8)Eternal Resonance (LIVE Excerpt)
9)Road To Damascus
10)The Prisoner's Song
11)Amida Rising
12)May This Be Forever
13)Anubis Rising
14)Talisman Of The Dreamer
15)Old Lions (in the world of snarling sheep)
~ Back To Abydos:
16)Revenants
17)Back To Abydos
18)Drama, Trauma and Awkward Grace
19)Hope In Transition
20)Two Fools Left (Live Bass Solo)
21)Blues For Akhenaton
22)Love From Nothing At All (Live)
23)Delta To Delta
24)Same Book/New Pages
25)Whirling Toward Shambalah
~ Children Of A Foreign Faith:
26)Lies
27)Remember Me
28)I Have Been Waiting
29)Not Even A Day
30)Edge Of Time
31)Children Of A Foreign Faith
32)Adrift
33)Tombs On The Hill
34)Down Here
35)All Perception is Wrong
36)Western Wall
37)Youre So Beautiful (The Music Biz Song)
38)Eternal Resonance (Part 2)
39)Waterline
40)Something you Dont Know
41)Walking The Wire
Order HERE!
http://www.indiedrive.com/loadArtistInfo.php?recordId=51&mode=view
~ January 8th
**** COFF now available on FLASH DRIVE! Children Of A Foreign Faith
is now available on a great RE-USABLE flash drive. Until now if you
wanted to buy your favorite band's music you could either buy a CD or
a digital file. The beauty of buying COFF on a flash drive is VALUE.
Not only do you get our spiffy album (ALL our albums will be there
SOON....) but a really cool and very useful drive as well! It's
absolutely the BEST deal you'll find, so if you've been putting off
purchasing music because you just don't have room for ANOTHER jewel
case...check it out!!!
~ indiedrive | The place to buy USB flash-drive albums.
(http://www.indiedrive.com/) We're listed under ROCK.
**** MANY THANKS to the bidders for MSJ's auction of our autographed
copy of COFF! It sold for $17.50 and we're extremely happy that you
all helped with such a worthy cause. Please watch for MORE great
autographed CDs and other great stuff here: MSJ EBAY
( http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZklingonmusicfan )
~ Faith
January 03, 2008
Autographed CHILDREN OF A FOREIGN FAITH on EBAY!
Category: Music
Our good friends at MUSIC STREET JOURNAL (click their icon in our top friends to learn more) are auctioning a few copies of KILLER prog CDs by GREAT bands (and us too!) on Ebay. All $$ goes to help support the MSJ cause and keep the indie flag flying. Please check out all the details, here's the link to our CHILDREN OF A FOREIGN FAITH cd autographed by the whole band:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150201839992&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fws%2Fsearch%2FSaleSearch%3Fsofocus%3Dbs%26satitle%3D150201839992%26sacat%3D-1%2526catref%253DC5%26dfsp%3D1%26_trksid%3Dm37%26from%3DR7%26nojspr%3Dy%26pfid%3D0%26fsop%3D1%2526fsoo%253D1%26fcl%3D3%26frpp%3D50%26fvi%3D1
If for whatever reason, the link doesn't work just go and put in the ITEM NUMBER 150201839992
We hope you bid high and often! :-)
~ Faith
~ December 17th
For Immediate Release.
ANUBIS SPIRE gives away album for the holidays.
New York, December 17th:
ANUBIS SPIRE has announced that they are making their latest album "Children Of A Foreign Faith" available for free download until the 1st of 2008. The album, which has garnered praise from critics and fans alike has become the band's best selling offering to date, surpassing in sales ( in a mere six months ) their popular 1998 debut "Old Lions (in the world of snarling sheep)" which continues to sell well a full decade after it's release. "Children Of A Foreign Faith" has drawn comparisons to the concept albums and ambitious rock operas of the 70's and the works of such legendary bands as Dream Theater and Pink Floyd. While it's lyrics deal primarily with the effects of child abuse and all of the life repercussions that it entails, the music, true to course and in patented Anubis Spire style, winds it's way through multiple musical genres yet always remains supportive of the overall concept and mood.
The band said that they decided to offer the free full album download to both thank fans for all their support and to allow those who cannot afford the CD or high resolution paid downloads, a chance to still have a copy of the album. It will be available until New Year's day at www.Soundclick.com/childrenofaforeignfaithanubisspire There are instructions at the page on downloading and burning the album to disk so that it is exactly sequenced and assembled as the commercial release. Songwriter/guitarist Bill MacKechnie said "All we really ask those who download the material is to please share it with those they think might appreciate it. We made it for those who have ears to hear it and think that nothing should stand in the way of bringing it to you. Especially money."
The band is currently back in the studio and promises even bigger news in 2008.
###
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» go to the music page for more
~ This is the SC page spotlighting the new ANUBIS SPIRE album "Children Of A Foreign Faith." Here you'll be able to listen to the entire CD as well as buy the downloads.
PLEASE NOTE: The songs on the music page are in the exact order they appear on the album. Since the music on the CD is a unified concept, there were NO breaks between songs, as a result, when breaking the album down into single songs some segues and lead-ins are attached to certain songs and may appear superfluous or out of place--they're not. If you wish to download all of the singles and hear exactly how the album should sound, burn them to a CD with zero silence between cuts.
Two of the band's most requested tunes from this CD - "Walking The Wire" and "Western Wall" are available in slightly less resolution for free download at the main ANUBIS SPIRE SC page:
( soundclick.com/anubisspire ).
Go there for over 30 free downloads from previous AS albums as well.
~ Kathy Stewart
Random Bullet Productions
"Beware the children that you devalue, humiliate, abuse, reject and push out to the fringe, because out on the edge the air is clearer....and when they look back at you they'll see the truth." ~Anubis Spire
Concept album? Rock opera? Thematic song cycle? Yes, yes and yes. And then some. On the surface, CHILDREN OF A FOREIGN FAITH seems deceptively straight forward. At over an hour in length, it moves through it's sixteen cuts seemingly without time for a pause or even a deep breath. Each song leads immediately to the next, separated ocassionally by spoken word lead in's that require the listener to rise up above the fray and try to see the big picture in order to understand. The big picture is what this album is all about. Many artists have written compositions about child abuse and alienation but none have looked beyond the obvious with the all encompassing thoroughness that songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Bill MacKechnie has. Though cruel and deplorable, it's not just the immediate effects of abuse that Children Of A Foreign Faith addresses. MacKechnie has divided the songs into the sub-headings of: SURVIVAL, AWAKENING, THE WORLD and finally TRUTH. Each section deals with the specific effects of damage done and most importantly, just how that damage continues to ripple through all future interactions and even onto the world stage in the forms of fear, hate and violence. Starting on a very personal internal level, the story runs ever onward through troubled relationships, adult disillusionment, corporate greed, religious insanity and cut throat media manipulation, all the while making it clear that the same seminal principle of might-makes-right exploitation and human devaluing is at play. Once the pieces come together, it leaves us shocked and amazed that we've never recognized that simple fact before.
In the end, MacKechnie and ANUBIS SPIRE offer no magical solutions or feel-good validations, and the listeners are left to find their own truth.
Musically the band again avoids being pigeon-holed and tied down. They speed through diverse styles and genres as if they invented them. Everything from Mahavishnu fusion to Floydian dirge to Zeppelin celtic-acoustic; even Bill's venerable homebuilt ANUBITAR sitar/guitar makes an appearance in the Indian Raga-ish ETERNAL RESONANCE (Part Two).
I was blown away by the level of originality and sheer musicianship of their debut CD (Old Lions) but the band has honestly re-invented and out done themselves on this one. Bill, Tim, Mick and newest member, keyboardist David Sweet sound better than ever.
Featuring a cast of special guests that includes Saqqara Record's NEIL HENDERSON, MIKE WARD of TEMPORARY POWER, MARLON KEMPMANN of DOCTOR MEMORY, the ever-shadowy and elusive JP MACGREGOR among others, ANUBIS SPIRE have fashioned an album that will need more than a few listens to sink in but once it does, if you're like me, you'll have a hard time getting it out of your head.
~ Eric Barron
PLEASE NOTE: The songs on the music page are in the exact order they appear on the album. Since the music on the CD is a unified concept, there were NO breaks between songs, as a result, when breaking the album down into single songs some segues and lead-ins are attached to certain songs and may appear superfluous or out of place--they're not. If you wish to download all of the singles and hear exactly how the album should sound, burn them to a CD with zero silence between cuts.
Two of the band's most requested tunes from this CD - "Walking The Wire" and "Western Wall" are available in slightly less resolution for free download at the main ANUBIS SPIRE SC page:
( soundclick.com/anubisspire ).
Go there for over 30 free downloads from previous AS albums as well.
~ Kathy Stewart
Random Bullet Productions
"Beware the children that you devalue, humiliate, abuse, reject and push out to the fringe, because out on the edge the air is clearer....and when they look back at you they'll see the truth." ~Anubis Spire
Concept album? Rock opera? Thematic song cycle? Yes, yes and yes. And then some. On the surface, CHILDREN OF A FOREIGN FAITH seems deceptively straight forward. At over an hour in length, it moves through it's sixteen cuts seemingly without time for a pause or even a deep breath. Each song leads immediately to the next, separated ocassionally by spoken word lead in's that require the listener to rise up above the fray and try to see the big picture in order to understand. The big picture is what this album is all about. Many artists have written compositions about child abuse and alienation but none have looked beyond the obvious with the all encompassing thoroughness that songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Bill MacKechnie has. Though cruel and deplorable, it's not just the immediate effects of abuse that Children Of A Foreign Faith addresses. MacKechnie has divided the songs into the sub-headings of: SURVIVAL, AWAKENING, THE WORLD and finally TRUTH. Each section deals with the specific effects of damage done and most importantly, just how that damage continues to ripple through all future interactions and even onto the world stage in the forms of fear, hate and violence. Starting on a very personal internal level, the story runs ever onward through troubled relationships, adult disillusionment, corporate greed, religious insanity and cut throat media manipulation, all the while making it clear that the same seminal principle of might-makes-right exploitation and human devaluing is at play. Once the pieces come together, it leaves us shocked and amazed that we've never recognized that simple fact before.
In the end, MacKechnie and ANUBIS SPIRE offer no magical solutions or feel-good validations, and the listeners are left to find their own truth.
Musically the band again avoids being pigeon-holed and tied down. They speed through diverse styles and genres as if they invented them. Everything from Mahavishnu fusion to Floydian dirge to Zeppelin celtic-acoustic; even Bill's venerable homebuilt ANUBITAR sitar/guitar makes an appearance in the Indian Raga-ish ETERNAL RESONANCE (Part Two).
I was blown away by the level of originality and sheer musicianship of their debut CD (Old Lions) but the band has honestly re-invented and out done themselves on this one. Bill, Tim, Mick and newest member, keyboardist David Sweet sound better than ever.
Featuring a cast of special guests that includes Saqqara Record's NEIL HENDERSON, MIKE WARD of TEMPORARY POWER, MARLON KEMPMANN of DOCTOR MEMORY, the ever-shadowy and elusive JP MACGREGOR among others, ANUBIS SPIRE have fashioned an album that will need more than a few listens to sink in but once it does, if you're like me, you'll have a hard time getting it out of your head.
~ Eric Barron
Your influences?
Pink Floyd,Mahavishnu Orchestra,Led Zeppelin,Page and Plant,Jimi Hendrix,Peter Gabriel,Rush,Dream Theater,Ravi Shankar,