Steve Rothery is the guitarist from Marillion, one of the kings of prog rock guitar, in my mind. He's put out a kickstarter project for his first solo album.

He played at a guitar festival in Plovdiv, and put up the audio and video from the festival as a tease of what the album would sound like. I'm listening
to it now, and it's got this great, ethereal vibe to it.

From the Marillion
eWeb newsletter:

"Earlier this year I was invited to play at the annual Plovdiv guitar festival in October 2013. To prepare I got together with my good friend and fellow guitarist Dave Foster for a couple of writing sessions which went incredibly well. After a couple of days rehearsal with the rhythm section of Leon Parr and Yatim Halimi I realised this was going to be something very special. This youtube trailer from the live video of the performance gives you an idea of where the finished album, "The Ghosts of Pripyat", will go.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIT9ZvcECAo
The audio download of the festival is available at http://steverothery.com/ and the video download at http://steverothery.fetchapp.com/sell/eizeetip

The album will also feature a guest performance from Steve Hackett on "Morpheus" and "The Old Man of the Sea". Lasse Hoile is designing the artwork so it's going to visually stunning as well.

The launch party for the album is at the Court theatre at Pendley Manor on September 20th - details are on the Kickstarter page.

I'm very excited about this project which has had an amazing response so far. Thanks for your support. "

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