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Tristan & Chloé - 2024

Featuring Jan Dumée and Bobby Jacobs

Former Focus musicians & composers Bobby Jacobs (bass) and Jan Dumee (guitar) start their brand new Art-Rock group Tristan & Chloé - a project featuring Greek vocalist Maria Markesini.

Jacobs: "Although we also do several other projects in a wide variety of musical styles, we thought it was about time to play together again in a fixed band, since we have not played together in a band for more than 10 years now. Not just a one style band, but one with romance, lyrical and shrill melodies inspired by, among other flavours, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Impressionism."

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FOCUS - HOCUS-POCUS
The Life & Journey Of Music's Dutch Masters

by Peet Johnson

The first fully comprehensive chronological and biographical record of the innovative and hugely influential group, Focus - from its infancy in 1969 right through to the present day.

Compiled from more than 180 exclusive interviews with past and present band members and associates.

This 340 page book documents the dramatic roller-coaster ride from early struggles, meteoric global success, hits, misses, break-ups, tragedies, bitter law suits and eventual resurrection.

Also includes 20 pages of - many never before published - photographs.

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FROM BOURNEMOUTH TO BEVERLY HILLS: TALES OF A TUB-THUMPER

by Colin Allen

Why did I write my memoirs?

It’s an idea I had toyed with over the last several years - people would sometimes say,

“You’ve lived a pretty interesting life and you've made old bones - you should write a book".

Also after almost fifty years of lyric writing and other compositional chores related to the music business,
I thought it was something I might be able to pull off and at the same time, find some enjoyment in the process. I finally started to pound the QWERTY shortly after my daughter remarked, "Yeah Papps, you should write a book - I want to know what you got up to"...

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Texel are back with their new album “Metropolitan”.
 

The music cooperative formed and fronted by Danish Keyboard player Steffen Staugaard and UK Guitarist Neil Gowland have invited a variety of great musicians to play on this release.

“Metropolitan” also features special guests; former Focus guitarist Niels van der Steenhoven, world renowned drummer Marco Minnemann and Tigermoth Tales Peter Jones on vocals.

Metropolitan is composed of 10 brand new instrumental tracks and 1 vocal song.

CD Bonus Track - Nocturne Epiphanie - Released: February 15, 2021

Steffen Staugaard: Keyboards  -  Neil Gowland: Guitars  -  Max Saidi: Drums  -  Phil Wood: Bass  -  Thorstein Quebec Hemmet: flutes

To know more: https://texel1.bandcamp.com