WORK OF ART
“Exhibits”
LABEL: Frontiers Music s.r.l.
FORMAT:
- CD (Jewel case)
CATALOG
#: FR
CD 995
BARCODE: 8024391099520
- LP (180g, gatefold)
CATALOG #: FR
LP 995
BARCODE: 8024391099551
GENRE: Melodic Rock
RELEASE
DATE: November 8, 2019
“Exhibits” is the
anticipated fourth album from the Swedish AOR trio WORK OF ART. A release which
has been in the works for more than one year and a half, but finally gets
unleashed to the hungry legions of fans that this band has been able to build
after just 3 albums.
WORK OF ART debuted in
February 2008 with the release of “Artwork”.
Coming out of nowhere, the album immediately struck a chord with Melodic
Rock lovers all around the world. With a sound inspired by such band as Toto,
Giant & Journey, WORK OF ART quickly established themselves as one of the
most promising newcomers in the genre. Soon after WOA guitar player and main
composer Robert Sall joined W.E.T, the band project with Jeff Scott Soto and
Erik Martensson from Eclipse, thus being immediately catapulted in the stardom
of the genre!
As a consequence of
this, expectations for the follow up “In Progress” were sky high. Work of Art
managed to live up to that, entering the Swedish album charts on the week of
release at number 30! The next step for the band was to start performing live
on stage which they did for the first time in Madrid, Spain in January 2012 and
was followed by several other shows in several other European countries.
“Framework” followed in 2014 and kept the momentum for the band which - simply
put - became the top new AOR band from Europe!
“Exhibits” is therefore
the logical next step: an album which encompasses all that Work of Art managed
to create until now, offering another bunch of unforgettable songs with soaring
melodies (courtesy of singer Lars Säfsund) and amazing instrumental prowess
(offered by Robert and Herman). Overall this is certainly Work of Art’s most
up-tempo and straight ahead album so far, but – as it should be – some
unbelievable softer moments are there as well! Legendary keyboards player Vince
DiCola (the author or the immortal “Training Montage” piece on the Roxy IV
soundtrack) us special guest on keyboards on “This Isn’t Love."
PRODUCED BY : Work of
Art
Programming and
Keyboards: Robert Säll & Lars Säfsund
Keyboards on tracks 2, 7
& 10: Jonas Gröning
Keyboards on tracks 5,
6, 8 & 9: Jonas Öijvall
Keyboards on track 4:
Marcus Möller
Keyboard solo on track
6: Robert Elovsson
Keyboard solo on track
4: Vince DiCola
Keyboard solo on 10:
Jonas Gröning
Bass on tracks 2 &
4: Shem von Schroeck
Bass on tracks 3, 6, 7,
8 & 10: Andreas Passmark
Bass on tracks 5 &
9: Nalle Påhlsson
Bass on track 1: Henrik
Linder
Bass on track 11: Figge
Boström
Percussion on tracks
1-4, 6-11: Mikael Emsing