NEAL MORSE & THE RESONANCE ANNOUNCE NEW RELEASE ‘NO HILL FOR A CLIMBER'
AND LAUNCH FIRST SINGLE “ALL THE RAGE’ EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL EVENT ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS WITH RAY SHASHO!
Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho.
Neal Morse is an American singer, musician and composer based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1992, he formed the progressive rock band Spock's Beard with his brother Alan, he joined Dream Theater's co-founder and then drummer Mike Portnoy, formed the super-group Transatlantic. In 2002, Neal Morse became a born-again Christian, left Spock's Beard and began a Christian rock solo career, releasing many progressive rocks concept albums about his new religious faith, He continued to play with Transatlantic and formed three new bands with Portnoy, Yellow Matter Custard, Flying Colors and The Neal Morse Band. One of his most recent projects included two critically acclaimed solo releases with D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings.
Throughout his long career, Neal Morse has often been a musical collaborator, usually with some of the greatest prog musicians across the world. This time, Morse has brought that collaborative spirit closer to home. The new album by Neal Morse & The Resonance – entitled ‘No Hill for A Climber’ will be released November 8th, 2024, and the title is taken from a resonant line in Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead.
PLEASE WELCOME AMERICAN SINGER,SONGWRITER,MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST NEAL MORSE TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS …
OFFICALLY REALEASED NOVEMBER 8TH
Pre-order now here: https://nealmorse.lnk.to/NoHillForAClimber
To coincide with the announcement, the track ‘All The Rage’ has been launched with a brand new video. Watch it now here:
https://youtu.be/BSXjvdHqADk?si=F_0g0Inzs48UoJvy
“Awesome album! I can safely say this will be a fave of the year for me!” – Mike Portnoy
Faithful to any Neal Morse prog album, ‘No Hill For A Climber’ features two epics (the 28 minute ‘No Hill For A Climber’ and ‘Eternity In Your Eyes’, which clocks in at 22 minutes) as well as three shorter songs: ‘Ever Interceding’, ‘All The Rage’ and ‘Thief’. The latter, Morse admits, is his current favorite: “It’s so different… it’s in all these different sections, and I’m really happy with the way each part has come out. It’s pretty crazy. There’s even a really cool King Crimson-style instrumental bit in the middle that Chris Riley originally came up with at the Radiant School a couple of years ago.”
For all of these reasons, Morse believes that the whole album is unique, but notes that “if I was going to compare its structure to an album I've done in the past, it might be along the lines of ‘Bridge Across Forever’ or Spock's Beard’s ‘V’; it’s not that it sounds at all like those albums, it’s just structurally similar. It has voices and playing styles and soundscapes that many people will have never heard before! Everyone you work with changes you a little bit, so even sound a little different on this one, but I hope that everyone will love it!”
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November 8, 2024 - November 9, 2024
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January 17, 2025 - January 18, 2025
Morsefest 2025 UK @ Trinity Church
Main article: Spock's Beard § Discography
Beware of Darkness (1996)
The Kindness of Strangers (1998)
Songs from the Highway (2007)
Songs from November (2014)
Neal Morse & The Resonance
No Hill for a Climber (2024)
Jesus Christ the Exorcist (2019)
The Dreamer: Joseph, Part One (2023)
The Restoration: Joseph, Part Two (2024)
Lead Me Lord (Worship Sessions Volume 1) (2005)
Send the Fire (Worship Sessions Volume 2) (2006)
Secret Place (Worship Sessions Volume 3) (2008)
The River (Worship Sessions Volume 4) (2009)
Mighty to Save (Worship Sessions Volume 5) (2010)
To God Be the Glory (2016)
Last Minute Christmas Album (2020)
Main article: Transatlantic (band) § Discography
Bridge Across Forever (2001)
The Absolute Universe (2021)
Main article: Flying Colors (band) § Discography
The Grand Experiment (2015)
The Similitude of a Dream (2016)
The Great Adventure (2019)
Innocence & Danger (2021)
With Morse, Portnoy & George
With D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings
So Many Roads: Live in Europe (2009)
Testimony 2: Live in Los Angeles (2011)
Morsefest 2014: Testimony and One LIVE (2015)
Morsefest 2015: ? and Sola Scriptura LIVE (2017)
Live at the Downey Theater 2008 (2019)
Winter Worship Tour 2012 (2019)
Testimony Live 2003 (2019)
3 Rivers Prog Festival 2008 (2019)
Jesus Christ: The Exorcist - Live at Morsefest 2018 (2020)
Life & Times in Milan - June 8th, 2016 (2021)
The Similitude of a Dream: Live in Tilburg 2017 (2018)
Morsefest 2017: Testimony of a Dream (2018)
The Great AdvenTour: Live in Brno 2019 (2020)
An Evening Of Innocence & Danger: Live in Hamburg (2023)
Official Live Bootleg/The Beard is Out There (1996)
Live at the Whisky and NEARfest (1999)
Nick 'n Neal live in Europe – Two Separate Gorillas (2000)
Don't Try This at Home (2000)
Don't Try This @ Home Either (2000)
Offenbach 1-Nov-98 (2019)
Live at the Astoria - Jun 16, 2001 (2021)
Whirld Tour 2010: Live in London (2010)
More Never is Enough: Live @ Manchester & Tilburg 2010 (2011)
The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia (2023)
With Yellow Matter Custard
Main article: Yellow Matter Custard § Discography
One Night in New York City (2003)
One More Night in New York City (2011)
Second Flight: Live at the Z7 (2015)
Third Stage: Live in London (2020)
Compilations and rarities
Merry Christmas from the Morse Family (2000)
The Transatlantic Demos (2003)
Sing It High: A Collection of Singles (2007)
Neal's Mystery Box (2019)
Advent Calendar 2019 (2019)
Inner Circle Sampler (2020)
Question Mark Demos (2020)
Sola Scriptura Demos (2020)
The First Twenty Years (2015)
The Demos 1995-2000 (2020)
SMPT:e - As Mixed By Roine Stolt 1999 (2003)
With The Prog World Orchestra
A Proggy Christmas (2012)
