DIGITALIS

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"The German / U.S. Progressive-Rock Digitalis was founded in 1989 by Rüdiger Deuster and Torsten Gager in Düsseldorf/ Germany (a city you might know as the home of "Kraftwerk" and other innovative bands). It was an attempt to create a totally computer - controlled live-act. In contrary to other bands a lot of new procedures and devices had to be created, because they had not been on the market yet, or were at least unaffordable. The result was a concert - program lasting for approximately 1 hour and their first CD "Cable-Salad".The concert was totally MIDI-controlled.Even the stage-lightning, pyro-effects, fog, and the complete mixing were ope-rated by pre-programmed MIDI. During the production-time of 3 years they had e. g. develo-ped a stage - light - controller and a light-simulator for the programming, that allowed the operation of all ligths and effects absolutely syncronous to the music, which was somehow a semi-playback. They never used any tape-recorders or digital means, but the real electronic instruments, which were controlled by a MIDI-player. The rest was played live. That`s what they have pioneered first. In 2002. It`s a pity, that they`ve never been together on the same patch of earth but working to-gether thousands of miles away from each other is still a big pleasure , but they`ll continue being innovative. Digitalis is for the fans of late 80´s early and 90´s melodic rock with some paths of electronic German influences , on the first impression , the influences could be compared with bands like "Styx", "Supertramp" and "Yes" looking just by the nice and soft vocals, also on the instrumental arrangements,from an other side, we have something near of EL&P but just in the keyboards sounds, then we go to join all these excellent influences, adding essential instrumental textures in all modern compositions and including wonderful symphonics sounds of the guitars, of course, then we will have Digitalis. The music of this band is accessible and very pleasant but not so very commercial, a true and consistent Progressive Melodic Rock Band. A special highlights are the alive performances, with many luminous effects. "Season Of The Reason" is the last work and released in 2002 including 14 tracks. All songs written and performed by Digitalis, lyrics by Ric Bonnell. A special and particular attention to and my favourite songs are: "Second Man", "Far Island", "The Draw", "Thirteen", "If I Could Have One Wish", "Season Of the Reason" and "Odyssey".The musicians be-hind Digitalis are: Ric Bonnell - Lead, Backing Vocals and Electric Guitar,  Rudiger Deuster - Keyboards, Vocoding - voices, Electric Drums and Electric Guitar and Torsten Gager - Electric and Acoustic Guitars, also J. Kellerman solo guitar on the track "Thirteen". ............ . Excellent and indispensable work, highly recommendable..." - Progressive Rock & Progressive Metal