Nine years after the release of the six part song "Legends" as a CD by Taproot Productions, it has been released as an LP. On July 17, 2007, HauRuck! released the "Legends" LP with revised graphics and enhanced music. It is presently available from HauRuck! (www.hauruck.org), and will soon be available from other distributors as well.

For those new to this work, the song consists of tales of heroism from six regions of Europe which have been passed down through generations and eloquently retold in a six part lyric poem by Robert Taylor and set to music by Nicholas Tesluk. There is the "Homeric" legend from Greece, the "Aeneid" from Italy, the "Eddic" from Scandinavia, "Song of Igor" from Russia, the "Arthurian" from Britain and "El Cid" from Spain/Iberia. Each part beckons the listener to relive the legend: "...And for the soul to know the soul, to the soul you first must go. For the answers lie there hidden in the legends that we know".

Musical interludes which weren't included in the original due to time constraints occurring when the tracks were initially recorded have now been added to the song/LP. Robert Ferbrache has also added an excellent ambiance that gives the recording a timeless quality. Also the graphics, though similar to those on the CD, have been completely revised.

Take a wonderful journey back in time and carry the timeless, heroic legends into the future with the lyrical/musical images created in the new "Legends" LP from Changes!

See Changes perform their song "The Waves That Washed My Mind" on YouTube.

"The Waves That Washed My Mind" Live in Moscow.

A new feature has been added to the Changes website (www.nmia.com/~thermite) called "Liner Notes". Their first album "Fire of Life" contained information about each song's concept and creation. Due to space constraints on later albums, they chose to omit this feature. Now with the unlimited space of their website's pages they have brought the idea back through cyberspace.

On October 31, 2006, Changes had their first studio release since "Orphan in the Storm". Released in LP format with a limited edition of 777, 700 on white vinyl with a gold foiled embossed cover and 77 on blue transparent vinyl with a purple foiled embossed cover. The LP is entitled "A Ripple in Time" and has been produced by Jeffrey Cornille on White Label. It will also be released in CD format with bonus tracks sometime in the near future.

The album consists of several early Changes songs, newly recorded with vocal harmonies and instrumentation befitting the style of their newer works. Also included are three new songs, "Somewhere in the Night", "Paradiso" (Instrumental) and "Eldorado" (Instrumental) ["Eldorado" can be heard on this MySpace page], which all help to enhance the effect of the passage of time from Changes inception to its present incarnation.

The album will be available from various European outlets including Steinklang Records (www.steinklang-records.at) and in the U.S. from TESCO (http://store.tesco-distro.com)

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ALLERSEELEN / CHANGES CD Men Among The Ruins
CD / Ewers Tonkunst
Euro 12.90

Folk Noir and Apocalyptic Rock: Changes (America) and Allerseelen (Austria)

This brand new split CD release contains six songs by the Austrian industrial folklore formation Allerseelen and the American folk noir ensemble Changes. Each one of these two groups that have been active for many years contributed three exclusive compositions to this CD which was published by the label Ewers Tonkunst in Russia.

Allerseelen and Changes performed together in November 2005 in St. Petersburg and Moscow and spent various days in these cities. It was the first concert travel of Changes to Russia and the second one for Allerseelen. This split CD is a thank you by these two groups for the Russian organizers of the concerts. This split CD is also a milestone which very soon will be sold out. So take care and control to get hold of these poetic and powerful songs.

The contributions of Changes are again beautiful timeless Folk Noir compositions with the wonderful guitar play by Nicholas Tesluk and the amazing dark voice of Robert Taylor. The three songs by Allerseelen show another facet of this Austrian ensemble, this time the songs have a powerful Apocalyptic Rock character, two of the songs feature female Russian lyrics by Drynwhyl who also participated on several releases by the Bulgarian black folklore ensemble Svarrogh.

Changes songs: We Went to Find the Sun, Don Quixote (Instrumental), The Poet

Allerseelen songs: Serdtse/Heart, Kapli krasivogo vremeni/Drops of Beautiful Time, Svyatoe Vino/Sacred Wine

Please order this CD from:

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or

aorta (at) aon.at

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