Frontiers Music Srl, is pleased to announce KEE OF HEARTS, another collaborative vision by Frontiers' President, Serafino Perugino and overseen by the unstoppable Alessandro Del Vecchio! The debut album by Kee Of Hearts will be released on September 15, 2017! Checkout the first song and video, “A New Dimension”, to be released from the album here:
KEE OF HEARTS is a new band built around two true melodic rock superstars: Tommy Heart, singer of Fair Warning and Kee Marcello, former Europe guitarist. With a line-up rounded out by Ken Sandin (Alien) on bass and Italian drummer Marco Di Salvia (Pino Scotto), the guys started working on the album in late 2016.
With their songwriting strongly focused on melodic rock songs, the album came to completion under the direction of producer Alessandro Del Vecchio (Revolution Saints, Hardline, JORN). It covers a wide spectrum of styles with much attention given to crafting great hooks masterfully played by musicians that know how to deliver the goods!
Musically, the band operates in a territory defined by Scandinavian AOR meeting German melodic hard rock with influences from the classic U.S. AOR giants (think Giant, Journey, etc.). All in all, another unbeatable melodic rock release from Frontiers!
TRACKLISTING:
1. The Storm
2. A New Dimension
3. Crimson Dawn
4. Bridge To Heaven
5. Stranded
6. Mama Don’t Cry
7. Invincible
8. S.O.S.
9. Edge Of Paradise
10. Twist Of Fate
11. Learn To Love Again
PRODUCED BY: Alessandro Del Vecchio
STUDIO: Ivorytears Music Works Studios, Somma Lombardo, IT
RECORDED BY: Alessandro Del Vecchio
MIXED BY: Alessandro Del Vecchio
MASTERED BY: Maor Appelbaum at Maor Appelbaum Mastering, L.A., CA
A new KEE MARCELLO UK tour Promo video can be seen below. Dates are for this coming September in England, Scotland and Wales.
The live footage is taken from the forthcoming Live concert film The Kee Marcello Band - Live from the 3rd Rock which was shot during the band's extensive UK tour in October 2015.
Kee will be releasing this film through Variant Music in early 2017 and will stream it over the internet as well as provide hard copies on DVD.
Frontiers Music Srl proudly announces the release date of KEE MARCELLO's new studio album 'Scaling Up' on October 14th.
With 'Scaling Up', Kee Marcello is using his past as a springboard to take a giant leap into the future! With the new music firmly grounded in the songwriting tradition that made him a multi-platinum rock star in the first place, Kee explores the boundaries of melodic hard rock with a contemporary performance that nods to his past and employs sizzling production. This is an album all his fans will have to pick their jaws up off the floor after hearing!
Kee Marcello is a unique artist in the hard rock genre. He has never stopped evolving and growing as both a writer and a guitarist and the new album illustrates how much he has managed to raise the bar yet again with both his guitar playing, singing and writing.
Conceived and recorded in the winter and spring of 2016, "Scaling Up" encompasses all the influences and genres in which the Swedish musician has been involved in since the start of his career. Besides the obvious resemblances to Europe's classic sound, Kee also gives a nod to his past in Easy Action. Speaking of Europe (particularly the 'Prisoners in Paradise' era), Kee took two officially unreleased songs, 'Wild Child' and 'Don't Know How To Love No More', and re-arranged and re-recorded them from scratch. Beyond those two tracks, you can hear a touch of sleaze and more classic hard rock on songs like 'Fix Me', 'Blow by Blow', and 'Soldier Down'.
Kee Marcello says: 'The whole idea of 'Scaling Up' is to, very respectfully, use the music of my past as a canvas to paint a picture of where I stand today and what I aim for in the future as a guitarist/singer/writer. I think we've got the balance of now and then just right, and it's performed by the best group of musicians I've ever had the honor of playing with!"
Kee Marcello is one of the most renowned guitarists from Scandinavia and has an amazing history to his name. He's best known as the guitarist - from 1986 to 1992 - of one Sweden's biggest musical exports, Europe. In the late '80s and early '90s, Europe were one of the biggest rock bands in the world. They sold over 30 million albums, landed at #1 on sales charts in 26 countries and shared the biggest stages with acts like Metallica, Def Leppard and Bon Jovi. Kee is now also enjoying a new wave of success as a TV persona in Sweden, as well as being involved in other musical projects.
Look out for Kee Marcello playing in a town near you soon! Confirmed tour dates below, with more to be added soon!
'Scaling Up' tracklisting:
1. Black Hole Star
2. On The Radio
3. Don't Miss You Much
4. Fix Me
5. Wild Child
6. Finger On The Trigger
7. Soldier Down
8. Scandinavia
9. Good Men Gone Bad
10. Scaling Up
11. Don't Know How To Love No More
12. Blow By Blow
Kee Marcello: Guitars/Vocals/Keys
Ken Sandin: Bass
Darby Todd: Drums
Special guests:
Mattias Eklundh - guitar solo on 'Good Men Gone Bad'
Michele Luppi - keyboards on 'Wild Child'
Produced and arranged by Kee Marcello
Mixed by Tobias Lindell
22 September - Birmingham, UK - The Robin 2
23 September - Glasgow, UK - Audio Club
24 September - Cardiff, UK - Fuel Rock Club
1 October - Linkoping, Saab Arena*
7 October - Karlstad, Lofbergs Arena*
8 October - Voxjo, Vida Arena*
14 October - G'teborg, Scandinavium*
15 October - Helsingborg Arena*
21 October - Stockholm, Globe Arena*
22 October - Sandviken, Garansson Arena*
28 October - Malmo Arena*
29 October - Karlskrona, ABB Arena*
*Rock Of 80's Arena Tour (featuring Kee Marcello, Thomas Vikstrom, Joacim Cans & More)
Frontiers Music Srl is excited to announce the signing of KEE MARCELLO for the release of a new album in the fall of 2016!
Kee Marcello is best known for his time as the guitar player in the band EUROPE from 1986 to 1992 on such milestone albums as 'Out of this World' and 'Prisoners in Paradise'. With this new album, Kee intends to go back to the sound that helped him make his mark. Expect some amazing arena rock songs, which he he started working on at the end of 2015.
Kee says: 'I'm really excited about this album. I'm making a new departure from the 'Le Baron Boys' era, bringing it into the future. I've always felt that there was something magic about the material that Sony mysteriously refused to release on PIP, and now the time has come to put things right. It's time to complete my 'unfinished symphony'. This is the album that Europe never managed to record after Prisoners In Paradise. The songs will have a very familiar ring for everyone who loves that era. And as a homage to all the faithful fans I've recorded two previously unreleased Le Baron Boys tracks on the album.With one foot in the past and one in the present I think this album will raise a lot of eyebrows - not to mention HORNS!'.
Kee is making plans for a full European tour in support of the new release. Stay tuned for more details!
Swedish Guitarist Kee Marcello (Europe / Easy Action / K2) has announced a Uk tour commencing in early October 2015.
Dates released so far are:
1st Oct Cardiff - The Globe
2nd Oct Camden London - The Underworld
3rd Oct Great Yarmouth - The Iron Maiden Bar
4th Oct Stourbridge - The River Rooms
5th Oct Bolton - Railway Venue
9th Oct Scunthorpe - The Lincoln Imp
This is likely to be the most comprehensive tour of the UK that Kee has done in a number of years and will coincide with the signing of a new record deal, a new "Kee Marcello Signature Gibson Les Paul guitar" being released and numerous appearences / clinics at various Universities and Musical Instrument stores around the Uk. The Cardiff date of the tour billed as "An evening with Kee Marcello" will also include a "Guitar Clinic" and plans are underway to film the night for a live DVD. This Dvd will include footage from the rest of the tour which is likely to contribute towards a documentary being planned by Swedish television channel "TV4".
Needless to say, all this activity is in support of a new album which is currently in production...
Kee Marcello is one of the most renowned guitarists out of Scandinavia with an amazing track record. From the hugely successful Swedish glam / pop group "Noise" in the early 80's through to the first U.S. major label deal ever signed by a Scandinavian group: Easy Action (Warner Bros) and then on to multimillion selling success with one of the biggest music exports out of Sweden to date: Europe. In the late 80's early 90's Europe sold over 30 million albums and had number 1 singles in 26 countries as well as sharing the stage with acts such as Metallica, Def Leppard and Bon Jovi.
