Circuline is excited to continue announcing the Guest Guitarists for the second album, “Counterpoint”.
Guest #5: Stanley Whitaker (Happy the Man, Pedal Giant Animals, Oblivion Sun). Stanley was a founding member of the amazing progressive rock band Happy the Man in 1973. HTM released three albums in the 1970’s, with followup albums in 1999 and 2004. Pedal Giant Animals is a project with HTM co-founder Frank Wyatt (Check out PGA’s latest project, out soon!). Oblivion Sun was formed in 2006, and the band released albums in 2007 and 2013.
Andrew Colyer met Oblivion Sun drummer Bill Brasso on the inaugural Cruise to the Edge in 2013. Oblivion Sun was looking for a new keyboard player, so when Frank Wyatt and Bill Brasso saw Andrew performing on keys/vocals with the Prog Rock Orchestra on the 2014 Cruise to the Edge, they spoke to him about becoming the newest member of Oblivion Sun. Scheduling and health issues have prevented that from happening, but it connected Andrew with all the members of the band. Oblivion Sun came out to see Circuline during their 2015 Spring Tour with Glass Hammer.
Stanley is contributing guitar tracks to the song “Stay (Peter Frankenstan)”. We’re excited and grateful to be working with him!
Circuline is excited to continue announcing the Guest Guitarists for the second album, “Counterpoint”.
Guest #4: Ryche Chlanda (Fireballet, Renaissance, Flying Dreams). At the mere age of 15, Ryche was a founding member of the progressive rock band Fireballet in the 1970’s. Recently Ryche spent several years on tour with Renaissance, after founding guitarist Michael Dunford passed away.
Circuline met Ryche in April 2015, while on tour with Glass Hammer. Because Ryche was putting together a band for his new Flying Dreams project, he asked Andrew Colyer to play keyboards, and for Darin Brannon to be the backup drummer for Craig Buchman. Andrew was in Flying Dreams’ first video, “True Love”, released in July 2015.
Ryche is contributing guitar tracks to the song “Nautilus”. We’re excited and grateful to be working with him!
Circuline is proud to continue announcing the Guest Guitarists for the second album, “Counterpoint”.
Guest #2: Matt Dorsey (Sound of Contact, Beth Hart). Andrew Colyer performed on keys/vocals with the Prog Rock Orchestra on the 2013 Moody Blues Cruise and YES Cruise to the Edge, sharing the bill on both cruises with Sound of Contact. Andrew and Matt got to hang out quite a bit during those two weeks at sea, in addition to SoC’s North American spring tour in New York City and RoSfest 2013. That connection evolved into Matt playing bass on five tracks and mixing Circuline’s entire debut album, “Return”. Matt also flew out to play some live gigs with Circuline on the U.S. east coast in November 2014.
Matt is contributing guitar tracks to the song “Summit”, and we’re grateful to have him on the album!
Circuline is proud to begin announcing the Guest Guitarists for the second album, “Counterpoint”.
First up: Kamran Alan Shikoh (Glass Hammer, Samurai of Prog). Andrew Colyer met Alan on the 2013 Cruise to the Edge, and hung out together for several hours at the Miami airport. Andrew then performed on keys/vocals with the Prog Rock Orchestra on the 2013 Moody Blues Cruise, sharing the bill with Glass Hammer. Circuline and Glass Hammer shared the stage as part of their spring 2015 tour.
Alan is contributing guitar tracks to the song “Inception”, and we’re grateful to have him on the album!
