EVERGREY Guitarist MARCUS JIDELL album solo

EVERGREY Guitarist MARCUS JIDELL Signs With Lion Music For Debut Solo Album


On August 16th, Lion Music will issue the forthcoming release of Pictures From A Time Traveller, the debut instrumental album from EVERGREY guitarist MARCUS JIDELL. It will feature seven tracks of "outstanding, diverse and top shelf virtuoso guitar excellence."



The tracklisting is as follows:

'Arctica'
'Huldra (Ruler Of The Forest)'
'Tesla World System'
'Rei Zan'
'El-Amarna (Ruins Of Akhetaton)'
'Space Dog'
'Wedding Song'

A sampler mp3 can be heard below:

 https://soundcloud.com/lionmusicrecordlabel/marcus-jidell-pictures-from-a#t=0:10

 Marcus, formerly of ROYAL HUNT', has a very personalised sound, extremely heavy at one end, yet extremely melodic at the other, all the time with a superb feel for phrasing and originality of song craft, and its these traits which are evident throughout Pictures From A Time Traveller.

On his goal for the album Marcus comments, “I wanted to make an instrumental album that was more then just shred. I wanted to make compositions that were interesting to listen to even if you're not a guitar player. In short, I wanted to write good music with electric instruments that didn't sound like anything I heard before.”

Whilst there is no doubt this is a guitar album, Pictures From A Time Traveller has its own unique voice boasting incredible utilisation of dynamics and a variety of styles all of which paint a vast number of pictures in the listener's mind, something Marcus was keen to express whilst writing, “When I write I see a lot of pictures and colours and that’s what I’ve been trying to make the listener feel. If you listen carefully to ‘Arctica’ for example you might feel the cold wind, the ice and snow, the silence of the Arctic winter that suddenly breaks when you discover the big polar bear that has been sneaking upon you... and you start to run."