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MYSTERY New album “One Among the Living”
Mystery is currently recording a brand new studio album to be released early 2010.
The title of the album will be One Among the Living and will contain about 60 minutes of new mystery.
Drums and keyboards have been recorded already and most of the vocals and guitars are done.
The album will be completed while Benoit is back on tour with YES in November and should be released on Unicorn Digital in early 2010 just before Mystery’s first appearance in the USA at ROSfest2010.
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Mystery announced for ROSfest 2010
RoSfest is extremely pleased to announce Montreal-based band Mystery as part of the Rosfest 2010 friday night lineup. Mystery was founded in 1986 by Michel St-Père as a studio project; the project gradually turned into a fully fledged band which successfully toured through Quebec and released several albums which were favorably reviewed by several magazines and websites all over the world. In 1995, Michel founded Unicorn Records to help promote the music of Mystery; the label later became a driving force in progressive rock, highlighting some of the finest bands from inside and outside Canada. After the departure of lead singer Gary Savoie in 1999, St-Père convinced Benoit David, who was then already singing Yes material in a tribute band, to join the band.
Besides Michel St-Pere (guitar/bass/keyboards) and Benoit David (vocals), Mystery’s lineup onsists of Steve Gagné (drums), Benoit Dupuis (keyboards), Dean Baldwin (guitar/keys) and Francois Fournier (bass). The band released their 5th studio album “Beneath the Veil of Winter’s Face” in 2007, and is currently working on a new release that should be released prior RoSfest 2010. Mystery recently opened the 4th annual FMPM in Montreal with a stellar performance; we expect Mystery to provide a longer and even better performance next spring at RoSfest 2010!
Mystery official Website: http://www.unicornrecords.com/mystery/
Check out the band's bio and MP3 - http://rosfest.com/Performers-2010/Mystery.htm
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MYSTERY CELEBRATES THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF DESTINY?
10 years ago, Mystery had just released their 3rd CD entitled Destiny? This album received rave reviews from all over the world. The album cover showed a child waiting for the schoolbus in front of a cemetary. What will happen between this young kid school day and the day that this kid, hopefully very old, will die.
Well in 10 years many things happened. Members have left and other have joined the band, and unfortunately some have left for another world. The world is not really the same anymore and everything did not turn out according to plans or was it all just following the course of a greater master plan fore-ordained by the Divine?? Who knows?, One thing is sure the questions asked on Destiny? Have not been answered yet and probably never will.
2 songs will not make the final mix in 1998 including Beneath the Veil of Winter’s Face which 9 years later has become the title track of Mystery’s best selling CD, and Heaven can Wait that you can now find on the new 10th Anniversary edition of DESTINY?
After the release of MYSTERY’s latest album Beneath the Veil of Winter’s Face, Tracks from the Destiny? Sessions were transferred into Illusion Studio’s computer and the new mix was started. Michel St-Pere says about this project: Not only this album brought MYSTERY to a new level, but it also started the whole Unicorn Records adventure. But I was not satisfied with the mix and after mixing Beneath the Veil of Winter’s Face, I knew I could bring Destiny to a new level.
The new mix sounds a lot better than the original and this album deserves to be heard the way it was meant to be. The 10th anniversary edition of Destiny is now available,
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Benoit David on tour with YES
Yes will be Europe starting in late October. Steve, Chris, and Alan will once again be joined by Benoit David on vocals and Oliver Wakeman on keyboards. All dates can now be found on the Europe Tour page. Jon Anderson is not part of the lineup on this tour; click here for info on Jon's solo activities.
More info at yesworld.com
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BENOIT DAVID JOINS YES!!!!
Mystery and Close to the Edge singer Benoit David will be joining Yes on their upcoming American tour. Yes, which consists of Squire, Anderson, guitarist Steve Howe and drummer Alan White, scrapped their anniversary tour in June after Anderson suffered acute respiratory failure and was ordered by doctors to rest six months.
Squire found David on the Internet after a friend sent him a YouTube clip of David's tribute band, Close To The Edge. Squire liked what he saw and called David to offer an audition.
``The first thing he said to me was, 'Well, I'm looking around to see where the cameras are in case I'm being punked,''' Squire said.
Yes has taken a page from another classic rock group, Journey, who selected Arnel Pineda, a sound-a-like of old lead singer Steve Perry, to be their singer after the group discovered him singing Journey songs on YouTube. Pineda sang on the group's successful comeback album this year and has also been touring with them.
It's not the first time Yes has had a singer besides Anderson. Trevor Horn sang on the 1980 Yes album ``Drama'' when Anderson briefly left the band. Squire hopes to work songs from that album into the set for the upcoming tour, plus a few songs he said were not Anderson's favorites to perform live but the rest of the band likes.
``You can't ever really replace Jon Anderson, because he's been such a force in the music business,'' Squire said. ``We look upon his replacement as more of an understudy.''
Squire said he is hopeful Anderson will be well enough to do shows next year.
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MYSTERY featured on the Classic Rock Magazine Prog CD compilation
UK Classic Rock magazine just released a prog cd compilation entitled Prog Spawn with its August 2008 issue with RUSH on the cover. The CD contains 12 tracks including Travel to the Night from the latest Mystery album “Beneath the Veil of Winter’s Face”.
Mystery is currently working on releasing a 10th anniversary edition of the Destiny album released in 1998, as well as working on a new album and preparing to do some live shows as well.
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