Wednesday, 4 September 2013

ERIK NORLANDER TALKS ABOUT THE GALACTIC COLLECTIVE LIVE

Fast forward to almost exactly one year later, May of 2011, and I am again booked into the Rites of Spring Festival (aka "RoSFest"), this time to be held in the iconic Civil War battlefield city of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. And ironically enough, for my third RoSFest appearance, I had gathered two groups of artists from both the North (Akron, Ohio) and the South (Asheville, North Carolina) where we would again play The Galactic Collectlve in its entirety. I rehearsed for the festival in Ohio with the studio álbum musicians, Freddy DeMarco (g), Mark Matthews (b) and Nick LePar (d) in a fantastic studio space belonging to keyboardist Mark McCutcheon and his Pink Floyd tribute band that was built up inside a former pie factory. Wooden floors and brick walls were complemented with all sorts of Pink Floyd-related artwork and made for a comfortable, and even familiar-feeling, environment. Vocalist Debrissa McKinney along with Moog synthesizer guru and Wall of Doom caretaker, August Worley, carne up from Asheville to join us during the last days of rehearsal, and Michelle Moog-Koussa, Executive Director of The Bob Moog Foundation (and Bob Moog's youngest daughter) also came from Asheville to meet us directly in Gettysburg to introduce and present the band at the festival.

The festival asked me to play a full two hour set, and so in addition to The Galactic Collective album, we added the vocal songs, "Capture the Sun" and "Secrets of Astrology," that I had penned for the Lana Lane - Red Planet Boulevard and Secrets of Astrology albums respectively and fit nicely into the whole celestial theme. Then to finish the show, I decided to attempt the Into the Sunset Suite for the first time ever live. 


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