10 April 2009

Both the 'Inferno' and 'Tuonen Tytar II' CD sets have now been released by Musea Records. As previously reported 'Inferno' features a track called 'The Crossing', whilst a cover version of Wigwam's 'Fairyport' is featured on 'Tuonen Tytar II'. Both these tracks are unavailable anywhere else.

The tracks for the other two Colossus Magazine projects have also been completed and submitted. The track for the 'Purgatorio' set will appear as Canto VII and has been renamed 'The Valley Of Kings'. The 'Rockstenen' set will feature a cover version of Kaipa's 'Oceaner Foder Liv'. Once again, these tracks will not be available anywhere else.

Plans for the future?.........Well, it is hoped that, after a short break, writing for the third Willowglass album will commence this summer. Also, there are plans to put together a band in order to present some Willowglass songs live at some point. Keep checking back to see how these plans develop!

21 October 2008

The Book of Hours album has just been nominated for this years "Best Foreign Record" by the Italian based Prog Awards site (www.progawards.it). Some of the other nominees include the recent releases from Neal Morse, Thieves Kitchen, The Tangent, Magenta, and Tempano.

Some reviews for Book of Hours have also been added to the Reviews section.

Meanwhile, work continues on the new track for the 'Purgatorio' project (working title 'The Valley of Flowers'), as well as the Kaipa track for 'Rockstenen'.

27 July 2008

Since the release of the Book of Hours album I've been invloved in a couple of projects for Colossus Magazine which will be released later this year on the Musea label.

The first is a track which will be included on a four CD box set entitled 'Inferno' (based on Dante's 'The Divine Comedy'). The set will feature 34 bands, each contributing one track to represent each of the 34 Cantos of Inferno. The set was originally going to be a three CD set, but this has now been expanded to four CDs due to the vast amount of music that was submitted by everyone! The Willowglass track represents Canto 12 (to which I also gave the subtitle 'The Crossing').

The second is a cover version of the Wigwam track 'Fairyport' which will be included on another CD set called 'Tuonen Tytar 2 (A Tribute To Finnish Progressive Rock Of The 70's)'. This release will feature 31 tracks, all of which will be cover versions of songs by Finnish progressive bands.

I've also signed up for another two submissions for future releases by Colossus. These will be a track for 'Purgatorio' (the second part of The Divine Comedy) and another cover version (this time of 'Oceaner Foder Liv' by Kaipa) for 'Rokstenen (A Tribute To Swedish Progressive Rock Of The 70's). These two will be released sometime in 2009.

For more information on these go to www.colossus.fi or www.myspace.com/colossusprojects.

26 May 2008

The new album, 'Book of Hours', was released today. The CD is availble now in the Shop or from your favourite CD vendor.

26 April 2008

Hello and welcome to the new look Willowglass website.

The main news is that the new Willowglass album, entitled 'Book of Hours', is now finished and is due to be released on 26 May 2008. The album was mastered by Marco Olivotto at Sonica Studios, Itlay.

The tracks are:

Artwork for the album, which will also contain a 16 page booklet, was again provided by the very talented Lee Gaskins (who also supplied the artwork for this site!).

mp3 excerpts of the tracks can be heard on the discography page.

The title track from the new album can be heard on the Willowglass Myspace page (www.myspace.com/willowglass) as well as a couple of tracks from the first album.

The album is available for pre-order on the shop page.