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Title - Circus of Wire Dolls [2CD]
Artist - Rocking Horse Music Club

For those unaware, The Rocking Horse Music Club is a songwriting and performing collaboration between producer/songwriter Brian Coombes, singer/songwriter Justin Cohn, and singer/songwriter Patrik Gochez and the talents of Rocking Horse Studio musicians Brenden Harisiades, Mike McAdam, Myron Kibbee, and Eric Wagley.

The band’s eclectic style blends progressive rock with elements of baroque and chamber pop, gospel, fusion, indie folk, and art rock.

And now the time is right to announce that the Rocking Horse Music Club are readying their brand new concept album/rock opera, entitled Circus of Wire Dolls (due out October 28th, 2022 via Plane Groovy).

The record once again feature special guest appearances by musicians and singers from the USA and UK - Ms. Amy Birks, Tim Bowness, Caroline Carter (Miss NH 2017), Evelyn Cormier (American Idol), David Cross (King Crimson), Kenwood Dennard (Brand X), Chris Difford (Squeeze), John Hackett, Greg Hawkes (the Cars), Noel McCalla (Mike Rutherford/Manfred Mann), Kate St John (Dream Academy), and Rob Townsend (Steve Hackett) - and is also going to be made available as a vinyl LP.

CD 1:
1. Prologue: Riverside
2. Circus of Wire Dolls
3. Packed Up (featuring Noel McCalla)
4. Senseless Sky
5. Animate in 5/8 (featuring Noel McCalla & Caroline Carter)
6. To Reach the Other Side
7. Will You Be My Downfall? (featuring Caroline Carter)
8. So Little Left (featuring Tim Bowness)
9. It’s Not About You
10. Trapeze Waltz (featuring Amy Birks)
11. Burn (featuring Caroline Carter)
12. Cut from a Different Cloth (featuring Chris Difford)

On an album that encapsulates what musical theme to expect by formerly announcing that He created a miniature circus of wire dolls, then brought its performers to life, the first disc of this expansive, genre-defying concept album/rock opera opens on the atmospherically-charged Prologue: Riverside and then continues ably onward with the fluid rock opus within the near nine minute titular Circus of Wire Dolls, the waning yearn of Packed Up (featuring Noel McCalla, himself once the vocalist for Manfred Mann’s Earth Band from 1991-2009), the skittish, frenetic brilliance of Senseless Sky, and then comes the majestically soaring Animate in 5/8 (featuring Noel McCalla and singer/songwriter Caroline Carter).

Up next is the acoustically-imbibed To Reach the Other Side and the dutiful alt-pop romp Will You Be My Downfall? (featuring Patrick Gochez and Caroline Carter) and they are in turn followed seamlessly by the languishing ache within So Little Left (featuring Tim Bowness, known for being part of the band No-Man), the uproarious It’s Not About You, the first disc rounding out on the summer swirl of Trapeze Waltz (featuring the multi award-winning singer/songwriter and Prog entrepreneur, Amy Birks), and then the fervent foot-tapper Burn (featuring Caroline Carter) and the airy balladry of Cut from a Different Cloth (featuring Squeeze’s brilliant Chris Difford).

CD 2:
12. Face of Rain
13. 0300
14. SY22
15. Lost a Piece of Me
16. House Party at Jack’s
17. Flowers in November
18. Every Show Must End (featuring Noel McCalla)
19. All Shall Be Well (featuring Evelyn Cormier)
20. Circus Waltz (featuring David Cross)
21. Coda: Slide Down the Cellar Door

The second disc continues the epic oeuvre of a theme by first bringing us the soft, mid-tempo rock balladry of Face of Rain and the gentle gossamer of the ballad 0300 and backs those up with the Ultravox-esque SY22, the short, but sweet pairing of Lost a Piece of Me and House Party at Jack’s, and then comes one of my own personal favorites, the delicately orchestrated, alt-piano work of Flowers in November, which is in turn followed by the exuberant Every Show Must End (featuring Noel McCalla).

The second disc, and the album itself, then culminates on the breathy vocals of the low ebb, mid-tempo balladry of All Shall Be Well (featuring the delightful Indie singer/songwriter from New England, Evelyn Cormier), the vibrantly alive Circus Waltz (featuring the electric violinist and keyboardist best known for playing with progressive rock band King Crimson from 1972-1974, Mr. David Cross), ending on the creeping prog psych-pop of Coda: Slide Down the Cellar Door.

The band has recorded two albums, Every Change of Seasons (2018) and a tribute album to original Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips, Which Way the Wind Blows (2019), which features guest appearances from Steve Hackett (Genesis), John Helliwell (Supertramp), Noel McCalla, and others.

The band’s debut single, Everywhere is Home, received an Independent Music Award in 2019. They received a Best Supergroup award from New Hampshire Magazine later that same year.

Musicians:
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar / Justin Cohn
Keys, Bass, Vocals / Brian Coombes
Vocals, Guitar, Keys / Patrik Gochez
Bass / Brenden Harisiades
Guitar / Myron Kibbee
Guitar / Mike McAdam
Drums / Eric Wagley

The new album is available from October 28th, 2022 on Plane Groovy and is also available as a vinyl LP.

Official CD Purchase Link

www.rockinghorsemusicclub.com

Rocking Horse Music Club @ Facebook

Rocking Horse Music Club @ Instagram

www.PlaneGroovy.com





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