Aeolus is started around 1999/2000. The actual formers of the project Aeolus were Michiel and Jurrie. We started creating some progressive music, after a few years of "progsilence." Ron Oppelaar (the former guitarplayer of Aeolus) came up with Raymond van Kooten as a possible singer and songwriter for us and we decided to give it a try. Raymond, who has his roots in somewhat different type of music, seemed to be a prefect addition for the the project and we started creating more songs, which can be found on the latest release "Dust on the mirror." Aeolus gigged once at a festival with guestmusicians. We rehearsed a couple of time and played five songs; people, press and other listeners were pleasantly surprised and that was a nice input to go on with what we were doing mainly:....writing! (check the lentepop gig-report) After having finished 11 songs, there was enough material to record a CD, which wasn't really planned to be a concept CD. Together with an engineer we decided to record the whole album from scratch and due to a certain idea we planned on making it a concept album. We shuffled the songorder and Raymond made some changes to the lyrics and some extra "in between" lines which is now the voice of Aeolus and Tara on the CD. The recording process took more than two years and ended up in a high quality recording! It was a time of blood, sweat and tears, and 2 years is actually too long... . In the mean time we decided that a CD cannot be sold if there is no band behind it. We started the first line-up with Ronald Oppelaar on guitars, Chris van 't Veer on bass and Matthijs Hekking on drums. The first and actually the last gig with this line-up was at Musicon in The Hague. Again the audience was enthusiastic! (check the Musicon gig-report) Raymond and Ron left the band almost at the same time due to several reasons, Aeolus was not dead, but near, cause when the voice of a band decides to leave, you need to find another good singer, plus you need to be aware of a new sound and look that will cause. Tijmen joined Aeolus a few months back after we had a short period with Bart Fekkes on vocals. We are now composing true Aeolus music and are recovering from that certain period with lots of blood sweat and tears....
On our website the preview of the upcoming new album 'Beyond Reality' is revealed for the first time! The titletrack 'Beyond Reality' is featured. As the mixing process is still ongoing, this can be considered as a temporary teaser. The final mix might differ from this one, but you will get a good impression of what to expect!
Mangrove will play two exclusive gigs in the UK at the Robin (November 17th, Wolverhampton) and The Peel (November 15th, London). In the Netherlands a special preview show will take place on December 19th at the Bluescafe. Don't miss it!
Hi AEOLUS, just a quick hello from the Jazz Pistols - hope you are doing fine and having a great weekend. Wish you all the best - thanks for being our friend and good luck for the things you do. Best regards - Christoph
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Great myspace AEOLUS , and a great music choice: ROCK ON!!!
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Vanaf nu kun je onze nieuwste track beluisteren op onze MySpace. Het is een cover van de jaren '80 ballad "The Promise You Made" van Cock Robin. Ben erg benieuwd wat je er van vindt ! KLIK HIER. Groetjes LEFT
