Happy Birthday, Circuline!

Happy Birthday, Circuline!
Date of Birth: February 8th, 2014.
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Happy Birthday, Circuline!
Date of Birth: February 8th, 2014.
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Circuline is so excited for our upcoming 90-minute show at the International ProgStock Festival!
We’re grateful to have been asked back for the second time, and we’ll be performing our new album, “C.O.R.E.” in its entirety, along with some previous favorites and new live features!
The Bad News: Due to overwhelming demand of her own band Kyros, and her recently acquired and remodeled London-based recording complex Sensible Music Studios, Shelby Logan Warne has decided she cannot be “performance ready” on bass for 10 days of travel, rehearsals, and the Circuline show at ProgStock. We as a band are sorry that is not a possibility at this time, and we hope to perform live with her in the future, when the time is right. We support her decision, and will be seen in the audience at Kyros’s Friday night performance at ProgStock. Shelby will be available to sign autographs with Circuline at the merch table, following our Saturday night performance on October 19th.
The Good News: Having toured with Circuline in 2014, playing on and mixing our first studio album “Return”, appearing as a Guest Guitarist on our second studio album “Counterpoint”, and co-writing two songs on our new album “C.O.R.E.”, Matt Dorsey has been an “almost-band-member” since the inception of this band. Matt will be filling in for Shelby on bass and acoustic guitar for our 2024 ProgStock performance!
We can’t wait to see you at ProgStock 2024!
Andrew ColyerMusic
Darin Brannon
Natalie Brown
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Thank you so much, Juergen Meurer and Supervised Prog (Germany), for this wonderful review of C.O.R.E. !!
Here is the entire review, translated and reprinted in full below:
The US band Circuline was founded in 2014. Behind the name are experienced musicians with a clear plan in which direction their collaboration should go. And so it is not surprising that their debut album “Return” was released a year later, followed a year later by their second studio album “Counterpoint”. That was it for a while but with new output, because in the next few years only live recordings were released on CD or DVD (“CircuLive::Majestik” from 2018 and “CircuLive:: New View” from 2020).
There were line-up changes and ultimately a very promising line-up, which produced the current album “C.O.R.E.” played. The core still consists of singer Natalie Brown, keyboardist and singer Andrew Colyer and Darin Brannon. New additions include Shelby Logan Warne on bass (Kyros, Synaesthesia) and the busy Dave Bainbridge on guitars (Iona, Strawbs, duo with Sally Min, daughter of the legendary Gentle Giant keyboardist Kerry Minnear, Lifesigns). Of course that makes you curious.
And the Symphonic Prog fan will not be disappointed! It may take a few listens, but sooner or later it becomes clear that this is a very varied, high-quality album that will hopefully lead to a significant increase in the level of awareness and popularity of this (now multinational) band - this would be deserved anyway.
Plus points can be collected with the vocal melodies and performances. They are quite melodic, although the melodies don't necessarily stick in your ear canals straight away. The interplay between front woman Natalie Brown and singer/keyboardist Andrew Colyer works flawlessly. They are able to sound a bit like Yes, like on ‘Third Rail’. But Moon Safari also comes through in some songs with a lot of background vocals. ‘Temporal Thing’ also contains arrangements reminiscent of Yes, here through the steel guitar and the beautiful Mellotron sound.
'Blindside', on the other hand, shows that they have mastered powerful vocal arrangements that even go as far as gospel-like.
They put the monster track 'Transmission Error' (albeit “only” about ten minutes long) at the end. It would also be a perfect end to a concert, because there is one climax after another. It starts right away with a crisp bass and a fast guitar and shows that they can also cut a good figure with slightly harder tunes. Bainbridge in particular shows his strengths here, and it doesn't have to be a Latimer-like guitar, but rather something completely different, like in this case a short Allan Holdsworth memory passage. But the keyboards are also very versatile here, sometimes as a fine organ, then with beautiful piano playing and finally with a wild synthesizer duel with the fantastic violin by Kansas violinist Joe Deninzon. As I said – a monster track. If you want to get a quick idea of the qualities of this band, listen to this song straight away - then no questions will be left unanswered.
Great album from a great band that has been given an additional breath of fresh air by the new members. Big recommendation for the symphonic rock fan!
Rating: 12/15 points
Teapot of the Week
“Teapot of the Week” on Supervised Progging in week 38/2024
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Supervised Prog and Juergen – Thank you so much for these kind words.
Thank you so much to iO Pages Magazine (Netherlands) for reviewing Circuline’s debut album, Return, in Issue 129!
You can see Circuline performing songs from Return and Counterpoint on the new CircuLive::Majestik live at RoSfestCD/DVD/Blu-Ray – now available for pre-order:
https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/circuline
Circuline is excited to continue announcing the Guest Guitarists for the second album, “Counterpoint”.
Guest #6 of 7: Randy McStine (Lo-Fi Resistance, The Fringe, Pink Floyd Experience). Randy, one of the most prolific musicians out there, recently returned from a European tour with the Jane Getter Premonition, then left immediately to go back out on tour with the Pink Floyd Experience. He and his band The Fringe will be performing this May at the Rites of Spring festival (RoSfest), where they will be having their CD release party.
Andrew Colyer met Randy on the Moody Blues Cruise and Cruise to the Edge in 2014. Randy was performing with Sound of Contact, Andrew was performing with the Prog Rock Orchestra, and when Circuline needed a singer-songwriter for their first album, they called Randy.
Randy contributed lyrics, melodies, and vocals for “Return”, and is again contributing lyrics and melodies for the seven vocal songs on this upcoming album, “Counterpoint”.
Randy is also contributing guitar tracks to the instrumental piece “New Day”. We’re excited and grateful to be working with him!