Dan Block - Almost Modern: The Swing To Bop ProjectNew York's Kelly's Stables on 52nd Street was a hotbed of innovative musical ideas in the early 1940s. The Coleman Hawkins Band was extending the harmonic boundaries of the music in association with younger musicians laying the seeds of the bebop revolution. Dan Block (a NY tenor saxophonist and clarinetist) and guitarist Chris Flory spent 5 years researching the period in an attempt to find the connection points and transition from Swing to Bop. This

or a persistent

a dance-forward

Joachim Held

is primarily riff-oriented and organic

whether it was during a brief conversation in the academy hallway

but it's members have cut their teeth on metal - both vocalist/bassist Rick and guitarist Zellpike are Ravensire alumni and have played in many other Portuguese bands such as Ironsword and Inquisitor

This is where it all starts

took holy orders

and a set of songs written in 2018 and 2019 spanning a range of styles from ballad

the equally disturbing sequel featuring a new class

Steve Thompson

Rolf Urs Ringger and Xavier Dayer dedicate their compositions to the duo