Bridge Across Forever

Bridge Across Forever
Transatlantic studio album
Publication (s)	2001
admission	January 2001
Label (s)	InsideOut Music
Title (number)	4th
running time	72:51
occupation	Neal Morse Roine Stolt Pete Trewavas Mike Portnoy
production	Transatlantic
Studio (s)	Dark Horse Studios, Nashville
chronology SMPTe (2000) Bridge Across Forever The Whirlwind (2009)

Bridge Across Forever is the second studio album by the progressive rock - Supergroup Transatlantic . It was released in 2001 by InsideOut Music and Metal Blade Records .

Creation and publication

After an American tour in 2000, the band members came together for four days at Neal Morse's to write songs for a new album together. This was recorded in January 2001 in Nashville . Guest musicians included Keath Mears (saxophone), Chris Carmichael (strings) and a choir. Bridge Across Forever was mixed by Rich Mouser and mastered by Vlado Meller at Sony Music Studios in New York. The album was released in Europe via InsideOut and in the USA via Metal Blade. There was also a limited edition in the DigiBook with a bonus CD.

Title list and style

Duel with the Devil - 26:43 Motherless Children Walk away Silence of the Night You're not alone Almost Home Charlotte Pike Suite - 2:30 p.m. If she runs Mr. Wonderful Lost and Found Pt. 1 Temple of the Gods Motherless Children / If She Runs (Reprise) Bridge Across Forever - 5:32 Stranger in Your Soul - 26:06 Sleeping Wide Awake Hanging in the balance Lost and Found Pt. 2 Awaking the Stranger Slide Stranger in Your Soul

Bonus CD Shine On You Crazy Diamond - 15:05 Studio Chat - 4:51 And I Love Her - 7:56 Smoke on the Water - 4:24 Dance with the Devil - 9:07 Roines Demo Bits - 9:00

The pieces on Bridge Across Forever were composed more together than those on the debut album SMPTe , but the style of Roine Stolt and v. a. clearly recognizable by Neal Morse. The varied retro prog on the album refers to role models such as Yes , Genesis , Gentle Giant and The Beatles .

reception

The press reacted mostly positively to the album. Ralf J. Günther from Babyblauen Seiten finds it “unbearable with his endless string of everyday melodies, empty rock formulas and prog clichés”, but Jörg Schumann sums it up: “The bottom line is that Transatlantic offers nothing new, but it does so in a perfect way . ”The Musikexpress speaks of an“ opulent, yes huge record ”and the eclipsed magazine selected Bridge Across Forever at 30th place on its list of the 150 most important prog albums.

Web links

• Bridge Across Forever at Allmusic (English)
• Reviews of Bridge Across Forever on the baby blue pages

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview by John Silverwood , transatlanticweb.com . Retrieved November 1, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Transatlantic. Bridge Across Forever , Baby Blue Pages , accessed November 1, 2012.
3. ↑ Michael Rensen: Transatlantic. Bridge Across Forever , Rock Hard # 173, accessed November 1, 2012.
4. ↑ Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever , Musikexpress 11/2001, accessed on November 1, 2012.
5. ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 38.