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Swedish keyboard legend P\u00e4r Lindh is launching his new band \u201cTRITON\u201d: The NICE Legacy of ELP & PLP. The new ensemble was created to honor the legacy of The Nice, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and the P\u00e4r Lindh Project.<\/p>\n
Swedish keyboard legend P\u00e4r Lindh is launching his new band \u201cTRITON\u201d: The NICE Legacy of ELP & PLP. The new ensemble was created to honor the legacy of The Nice, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and the P\u00e4r Lindh Project.<\/p>\n
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Says P\u00e4r, \u201cMy band P\u00e4r Lindh Project or PLP in short was struck by the passing of our beloved singer Magdalena Hagberg in 2007. She died from cancer and this was a terrible blow to the band from which PLP could never really recover.<\/p>\n
\u201cThus we have a situation today of three great keyboard driven bands that are no more. The Nice, ELP and PLP. In 1995 I played with Lee Jackson and Brian Davidson and we were going to form The New Nice but due to lack of financial backing it didn’t happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo keep the legacy of these three unique bands alive I have decided to begin touring under the name TRITON and the concept The Nice Legacy of PLP & ELP. The idea is that because all three above bands no longer exist we want to keep their legacy going as there is just an tremendous amount of extraordinary musical material to perform in concert. The musical legacy of three great bands all in one show!\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with P\u00e4r on keyboards and synthesizers, the band features G\u00f6ran Holmberg on Bass, and Putte Saavedra on drums. Saavedra was along with P\u00e4r in starting the progressive wave in 1991 organizing the perhaps first ever progressive rock festival in Sweden. Incidentally, all\u00a0 members of TRITON performed at this festival, which was then followed by Progfest 93 in Los Angeles USA where P\u00e4r also performed and the rest is history as they say.<\/p>\n
G\u00f6ran Holmberg and Putte Saavedra comes from the band MANTICORE which performed the music of YES, Genesis and when P\u00e4r was a short time member 1989-1991 even ELP covers. MANTICORE has also released an album with their own music called \u201cTime to Fly\u201d in the mid nineties.<\/p>\n
Watch Triton performing \u201cHoedown\u201d: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch? v=ZTazGthnVuE<\/p>\n
For those in the progressive rock community P\u00e4r Lindh is considered a keyboard wizard \u2013 so much so that he was chosen to play keys for the reunion of the legendary Nice (a prestigious position only held by keyboard visionary Keith Emerson) With the release of several highly acclaimed albums, the P\u00e4r Lindh Project band has garnered worldwide acclaim. After original lead vocalist Magdalena Hagberg sadly passed away in 2007, and a subsequent hiatus by the band, P\u00e4r felt the time was right to record and release his next album and recruited the exquisite vocalist Alan Lewis, former Alaska member, who is the most recent vocalist with American prog legends Starcastle. Lewis also adds his tasty solid drum work to the mix. ‘Time Mirrors’ is a true masterpiece in progressive rock and has been garnered critical acclaim across the planet. The album was nominated for the ‘Best CD of 2010’ by the Italian Prog Awards.<\/p>\n
PLP was a classical rock band with the focus on keyboard-based music. The influences of European classical music is an important part of their sound. This sets them apart from perhaps all other bands in the rock, pop and progressive music world of today. Their classic album GOTHIC IMPRESSIONS was elected in 1997 as one of the top ten progressive rock albums of all time along with groups like YES, GENESIS, ELP, MARILLION, PINK FLOYD and others. The P\u00e4r Lindh Project was the most successful Swedish progressive rock band of the 1990s.<\/p>\n
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Image credit: ANJA<\/p>\n
Source: www.parlindh.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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