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Syzygy
News & Notes
07/10 - Greetings to all. Thanks to Jim and Rebecca Mileti from the Winchester
Music Hall for hosting our June 5th concert. Above all, thank you, our fans,
for supporting us with another standing room only turnout. We so appreciate
everyone spending valuable time and money to come and see us. We are now
turning our attention to headlining "A Day of Prog" on Saturday, August
14, 2010 near Pittsburgh, PA. This is a Howard Levy 3RP event so quality
is guaranteed! This will be a very special show for several reasons as the
band will be…
§ …joined by the incomparable Mark Boals on vocals
§ …performing it's most expansive survey of it's three albums to date including
some pieces which have never been played live before
§ …performing a very special "encore" set you won't want to miss
§ …offering a special limited-edition, pre-release of the band's upcoming
first live album, "Syzygy Live at 3RP 2009" (which was recorded at last
year's 3RP festival). This CD will be a limited-quantity (and numbered)
release at a very low 3RP-fan price which the band has personally autographed.
Anyone who witnessed last year's show will tell you it was a memorable gig
Not only will this be a wonderful collectible, the audio quality of the
band performing live is like nothing you have ever heard. This unique release
will also tide you over until the band officially releases its 5.1 surround
sound DVD/CD to the public later this year. Check
out the review of Syzygy's 2009's 3RP concert.
§ …likely performing Syzygy's last show for about a year as writing for
the new album will commence immediately following the Day of Prog Festival.
§ Howard Levy and his 3RP team also have some amazing surprises for all
of those in attendance.
All good reasons not to miss this event.
For more information go to http://3rprogfest.com/

4/10 Check out the WCSB
Interview with Paul Farewether discussing performing with Syzygy on
June 5th 2010 at
the famous Winchester Tavern and Music Hall in Cleveland (www.thewinchester.net).
Download the promotional
flyer here.

3/10
First: There continues to be a growing buzz about SYZYGY and our latest
release, “Realms of Eternity”. We hope to further this momentum with a release
this spring/summer of our first live disc. It will be a CD/DVD bonus combo.
The CD audio side is currently near completion and I must give a shout out
to our engineer Chris Keffer. In addition to laboring over every note I
have ever recorded for the last 20+ years, Chris ventures out on the road
with us and runs sound. He recorded the 3RP show on 24 discreet tracks and
it sounds incredible!! Listening back to the live tracks, I was really impressed
with how the band communicates with such power. You can really hear the
rock foundation supporting these mighty compositions. Chris, you are the
best (we’ve nicknamed him Chrysygy!). The DVD bonus side will have some
footage of our victorious 3RP concert last August and will be in 5.1 Surround
Sound! Chris should win a Grammy for best engineer. He is the best out there.
BTW- you can check out some of the live footage on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2UGovog_iw
Second: We are also starting to make some headway on our Midwest tour this
summer, so stay tuned for more information on that. We are excited to report
that the incomparable Mark
Boals will be joining us again
this summer, so if you missed him at 3RP you get a second chance (sort of
like the Gospel :o)! Last, but certainly not least, SYZYGY will be performing
live on Saturday, June 5th at the famous Winchester Tavern and Music Hall
in Cleveland (www.thewinchester.net).
We are excited to announce that local Cleveland singing legend, Paul
Fayrewether, will be our guest vocalist
that evening singing our material. Paul has never sung anyone else’s material
that I am aware of and we are both excited and honored that he is willing
to lend his unique gifts to the live Syzygy experience (we will have a few
surprises to throw at you that evening so you won’t want to miss it!!).
This is one performance only!!!!
1/10 - Check out the Syzygy Cover Story in Progression Magazine: Cover
& Feature
Article
1/10 - Download the MP3
Kweevak Radio interview
12/09 - Reflecting on the year 2009, we have much to be thankful for. Of
course, our health and families are our most precious gifts and we come
through 2009 in good shape. Syzygy had an exceptional year too. The release
of Realms of Eternity in June and the live shows which followed were incredibly
fun and memorable. We thank all of you for your support. We are also excited
to receive the recent issue of Progression Magazine http://progressionmagazine.com/
which has a feature on Syzygy. If you didn’t get it, check it out. It is
great. We are hoping that more people come to discover our music as a result.
We have been advertising pretty hard lately so we hope that pays off as
well. With that being said, 2009 has been a great year for me and the guys
and we thank God and all of you for making it possible.
7/09 - FINALLY!!! It's here…Realms of Eternity…it took what seemed an eternity,
but we believe the wait will be worth it. The compositions are so deep and
textured, you will have lots to explore for some time to come. Be sure to
experience this album under headphones too (we took great care to make that
as fun as possible). You will notice that it's a single disc. In order to
keep the retail price down during these very hard economic times, we found
a way to put ALL 77 minutes+ of music on one CD without cutting one note!
So as cool as it would have been to have presented this material in a "double"
package, we felt it was best to make it as affordable as possible. Special
thanks goes out to our engineer Chris Keffer who did an amazing job (again)
throughout this project. I can't wait to hear from all of you about your
experience with this album. With the release behind us, we have now switched
gears and are rehearsing and playing some live shows. We had our first one
a few days ago, and it went quite well. It was fun to feel the power and
emotion (and challenge) these compositions uniquely possess in a live presentation.
To that extent we hope to see you in the coming weeks at one of our shows.
We are having our official CD release party on August 1, 2009 at the Beachland
Ballroom in Cleveland http://www.beachlandballroom.com/calendar.asp?Page=5.
We are also looking forward to playing at the 3RP Festival in Pittsburgh
on 8/9/2009. http://3rprogfest.com/index.php?content=tickets.
So, on behalf of all of us in Syzygy, thanks for your patience and support.
Let us know what you think. Be Blessed, Carl
Carl 3/09 - It's with an abundance of joy that I am pleased to tell you
that we should have our masters to the duplicators in mid-April. From there,
it's just a few short weeks to get it into distribution. Realms of Eternity
is really going to be released! 77 minutes plus! Surprises! What a project!
People that have heard it have said, "No one is writing like this anymore."
Well, that's our goal: to stand on the shoulders of the greatest progressive
forefathers (and sisters) and compose music that honors that tradition without
being derivative. I just know you all will like it very much. We are also
toying with the idea of a 5.1 surround mix in a subsequent release. That
would be so amazing. But, first things first...we will release the album
and get that other stuff going shortly thereafter. Most importantly, I want
to confirm the rumor that we will be promoting this album with some live
shows! Stay tuned for more. In the meantime, be blessed! - Carl
7/08 - Greetings and blessings to all. We are rounding third and heading
home. Most of the mixes are done. Not a wasted moment or any filler to be
found. I won't announce a release date quite yet, but we are getting close.
In the meantime I have included some pictures of a recent session where
we brought in a cellist, violinist and flutist for some additional orchestration.
These are students enrolled in the Master's Program at the Cleveland Institute
of Music where I am on the Board of Trustees. It was their first exposure
to "progressive rock", but they did a great job and had a lot of fun to
boot. Hope you enjoy. Stay tuned for additional news coming shortly. Peace
and blessings to you and your families for the rest of the summer. - Carl
1/08 Well, we finally have some photos to share with you of the group working
on our new project (Realms of Eternity). Now, at least there is some verifiable,
visual evidence that we are working! The photos include live shots of us
at 1) the Winchester Club (where we premiered The Sea, Dreams and Vanitas),
2) in the studio recording our new epic piece, The Sea, 3) at our remote
recording odyssey of the Dialectic and 4) my home studio doing some classical
guitar work (love the shorts). I would be remiss if I didn't give a special
thanks to Brian Misch of Misch Photography for his great work at the Winchester
and at Magnetic North Studios. Lastly, we just finished mixing The Sea which
is a 26 minute epic and it sounds great! We are on toVanitas which is a
much shorter piece and will be loads of fun because it has lots of counter
point lines and a very cool symphonic arrangement. We'll keep you posted,
but progress is definitely being made. Maybe we'll even be able to get a
few sound bytes up on the website pretty soon. Hope this update finds you
well and continued blessings to all of you. -Carl
12/07 Well I am officially out of the prediction business. What I can tell
you is that we have had a several month delay due to technology - my protools
rig simply can't handle 100+ tracks and 26 minutes of music of our major
epic The Sea. So I have had to switch everything over to cubase and redo
quite a bit of my studio in the process. I won't bore you with the details
of transferring the information and debugging everything, but it was horrendous.
Thankfully, we are back to mixing and looking for distribution at the same
time. If anyone has any helpful referrals, we'd love to hear from you. I
am also delinquent in my promise to post sound clips and photos of our recording
sessions but maybe that will be forthcoming too. Thanks for hanging with
us. Talk soon and God Bless - Carl Baldassarre
12/06 We are making steady progress on our new release, "Realms of Eternity".
All basic tracks are complete. We are now tracking vocals and mixing. Sam,
Paul and I just reviewed all the basic tracks recently ( 8 tracks spanning
70+ minutes) to take stock on where we are in the project and we were overwhelmed
by the depth and breadth of this album. This is far and away our greatest
work. I hope to shortly have some pictures and sound samples up here so
you can see and hear what we are up to. Thanks for your patience. It will
be amply rewarded. Take care and God Bless, Carl
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