World acclaimed keyboardist Derek Sherinian, (Sons of Apollo, Black Country Communion), one of the most significant keyboard players of the modern era, will be releasing his upcoming new album, \u2018Vortex\u2019, on July 1st, 2022 on InsideOutMusic. Returning alongside Sherinian is legendary drummer Simon Phillips, who once again co-wrote and co-produced the album, as well as Tony \u2018The Fretless Monster\u2019 Franklin, on bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, Derek is pleased to release the second single from the album titled \u201cThe Scorpion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Check out the video for \u201cThe Scorpion\u201d here: Derek has this to say about the track: \u201cAfter the great response to \u201cDragonfly\u201d on my last album, Simon and I wanted to do another piano trio song. Don\u2019t be surprised if you see me going more in this direction in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tracklisting:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 The Vortex feat. Steve Stevens The Vortex is available as:<\/strong> Pre-order the album here: https:\/\/dereksherinian.lnk.to\/Vortex<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Check out the first single \u201cThe Vortex\u201d here: The follow-up to 2020\u2019s The Phoenix, Vortex includes eight tracks built on his signature chameleonic sound that blends rock with elements of funk, prog, and jazz, which he started writing even before The Phoenix was finished. \u201cVortex is a continuation of The Phoenix,\u201d Sherinian states. \u201cHowever, I feel the composition is stronger on the new album, and I would describe it as a modern day 70s style fusion record, but with newer heavier tonality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When it came to guitars, Sherinian recruited a who\u2019s who of great players, some of whom he had worked with before – Steve Stevens, Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather, Zakk Wylde, Sons Of Apollo bandmate Ron \u201cBumblefoot\u201d Thal – and a few new allies, in the form of Michael Schenker, Mike Stern and Nuno Bettencourt. \u201cThe choice of guitarist works itself out in the writing,\u201d he explains. \u201cAlso, like in the case of Steve Stevens, we co-wrote the song together, so it was natural for him to play on it.\u201d Of his new collaborators, he says of Bettencourt, who appears on the scratchy \u201cFire Horse\u201d, \u201cI have always been a fan of his playing, and I am glad that we finally got to record together. He has the Van Halen swing and swagger to his playing that I love. We were both born in 1966, the Chinese year of the Fire Horse.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Sherinian, Schenker\u2019s inclusion was a no-brainer. \u201cMichael Schenker has been one of my heroes for many years. He asked me to play on his Immortal album, and in return, he agreed to play on \u201cDie Kobra\u201d. I wanted to write a great song inspired by my favorite Schenker tracks. Zakk Wylde added some great additional parts to the song, and Tony Franklin and Simon Phillips sound great, as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keyboardist Derek Sherinian has more than made a name for himself. After all, MusicRadar.com deemed him \u201cA true shredder, his virtuoso playing has seen him dubbed the keyboard-playing version of Eddie Van Halen,\u201d in 2020. Moreover, in 2021 he was voted Greatest Keyboardist Of The 21st Century, and the eighth Greatest of All Time by the same site, and Prog Magazine saw him voted the ninth Greatest Keyboardist Ever. But then you don\u2019t rack up a resum\u00e9 such as his without some serious chops, having worked with the likes of Dream Theater, Black Country Communion, Billy Idol, Whitesnake – David Coverdale stating in 2020 \u201cDerek plays like the son of Jon Lord\u201d, – Kiss, current band Sons Of Apollo, and Alice Cooper – who in 1989 called him the \u201cCaligula of keyboards\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DEREK SHERINIAN online: World acclaimed keyboardist Derek Sherinian, (Sons of Apollo, Black Country Communion), one of the most significant…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[2204,125,51,121],"class_list":["post-17164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-derek-sherinian","tag-prog","tag-progressive-rock","tag-progrock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17166,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164\/revisions\/17166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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2 Fire Horse feat. Nuno Bettencourt
3 Scorpion
4 Seven Seas feat. Steve Stevens
5 Key Lime Blues feat. Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather
6 Die Kobra feat. Michael Schenker, Zakk Wylde
7 Nomad’s Land feat. Mike Stern
8 Aurora Australis feat. Bumblefoot<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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