Elegant Machinery | ar

There are at least three bands with the name Machinery: 1. Machinery was formed in late 2001 by founder/singer Michel Isberg and drummer Johan Westman. After meeting each other on a mutual friends birthday-party and some amount of beer a decision was made. Machinery was to be formed! The first years meant truly hard work for Michel and Johan and numerous members came and went. Because Michel is basically a guitarplayer from childhood years the original idea was to let Michel do The guitars and the hunt for the right vocalist began. After countless auditions no suitable singer was to...

Practically a one-man band, ELEGANT SIMPLICITY is headed by composer, arranger, programmer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Steve McCabe. Their material is highly keyboard- and guitar-oriented melodic prog that will alternately remind you of CAMEL, GENESIS, The ALAN PARSONS PROJECT, BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST, The BEATLES and Mike OLDFIELD. Between 1992 and 1995, McCabe released 7 instrumental cassettes and then hired vocalist Ken Senior (from neo-prog band EVOLUTION), along with a few guest musicians who appeared on subsequent albums. Since 1996, the 'band' has released practically one album a year. No one cassette from the first era particularly stands out (although "Inside the...

The idea of forming my ”own” band started somewhere in Spring `02. I was helping one of my friend to get his musical career back to its course and I offered him a song I made to the Burning Point ( but I guess that the other guys in BP didn`t share my enthusiasm towards that song so it was kind of “left“ over...). Back then I was in the middle of the Feeding the Flames recording sessions so I kind of “forgot “ the whole thing and the next time I saw my friend he told that they had...