The Michael Thompson Band is back with their brand new album, “Love And Beyond” on April 26, 2019!
Release Date: 26-04-2019
Genre: AOR
TRACKLIST
1. Opening
2. Love & Beyond
3. Save Yourself
4. Passengers
5. Red Sun (Interlude)
6. Supersonic
7. La Perouse (Interlude)
8. Don't Look Down
9. Far Away
10. Penny Laughed (Interlude)
11. Love Was Never Blind
12. Black Moon (Interlude)
13. Flying Without Wings
14. Forbidden City (Interlude)
15. Just Stardust
16. What Will I Be Without You
17. Starting Over
18. 'Til We Meet Again
LINEUP
Guitars: Michael Thompson
Lead Vocals and bass: Larry Antonino
Lead vocals: Larry King, Mark Spiro
Drums: Sergio Gonzalez, Tim Pedersen
Keys: Guy Allison
MICHAEL
THOMPSON BAND
“Love
And Beyond”
FORMATS:
- CD (Jewel case)
CATALOG #: FR CD 945
BARCODE: 8024391094525
FOR
FANS OF: Survivor, Journey, Foreigner.
The Michael Thompson Band is back with
their brand new album, “Love And Beyond”
on April 26, 2019! For this new release, Michael wanted to go back to the more
polished AOR sound of the band’s debut album. Once
again, he teamed up with Wyn Davis for the mix and also had the amazing Mark Spiro involved in
the songwriting and appearing on vocals together with the awesome Larry King
and Larry Antonino. Best known for being Unruly Child’s
bass player, Antonino delivers a phenomenal vocal performance which can only be
defined as stunning. Another Unruly Child member, Guy Allison appears on
keyboards, while drums on the album are handled by Sergio Gonzalez and Tim
Pedersen.
Amongst musician circles, Michael
Thompson is considered one of the leading guitar players in the world. He was
awarded the "Distinguished Alumni" award from his alma mater Berklee
College of Music to commemorate his contributions to the music industry. Berklee's
program for the event noted that "he is widely regarded as being among the
elite studio session players, and his amazing list of credits includes such
prominent names as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, 'N Sync, Toni
Braxton, Phil Collins, Rod Stewart, the Scorpions, Vince Neil, Christina
Aguilera, Michael Bolton, Mariah Carey, Bette Midler, Madonna, Babyface, En
Vogue, Gloria Estefan, Stanley Clarke and Ricky Martin."
Originally from New York, Michael moved
to Los Angeles in 1979 to begin a studio musician career. In 1988, after
working to try and get a deal with his band Slang, he finally got signed by
Geffen Records to release one album entitled "How Long", under the
Michael Thompson Band (M.T.B.) monicker. On "How Long", more great studio musicians
appeared as guests, in particular drummer-maestro Terry Bozzio, singer Moon
Calhoun (ex The Strand), Pat Torpey (Mr Big), bassist Jimmy Haslip, John
Elefante (Kansas), Toto's Bobby Kimball, and Great White associates Michael
Lardie and Wyn Davis (who also produced the album). Songwriters would include,
among others, AOR luminaries such as Jeff Paris, Mark Spiro, Billy Trudel and
Brett Walker.
As of today, “How Long” is still regarded as one of the highest examples of
hi-tech AOR / West Coast, with superb production and immaculate songwriting. Reissued
in 2007 with 3 bonus tracks, it started a relationship between Michael Thompson
and Frontiers, who put out the new Michael Thompson Band album in early 2012.
For the second album which Frontiers
released in 2012, Michael teamed up with the awesome singer Larry King from the
band Soleil Moon. Larry brought a new and more rocking approach to the MTB
sound, but certainly the trademark elements of songwriting and melodies were still
to be found on the “Future Past”.
Pure AOR can’t get much better than this!
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