One Velvet Winter
Jesus In Dystopia (5cd)
Eight panel digipack, 5 CD's, 32-page full color booklet, over 4,5 hours of uncompromising and diverse music by Dutch composer, guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Stef Kohler. Progressive metal, classical guitar pieces, rock, atmospheric songs, doom, black metal and eastern music... 'Jesus in Dystopia' is an absurdist and philosophical journey through the world of big data, manipulation, fear and the growing urge to control. Musically, this trip takes you from classical guitar, psychedelic rock and fragile songs to abrasive avant-garde metal and doom, with dazzling guitar work. An intense and diverse landscape of meditative interludes, lengthy, heavy and varied epics and alternative experiments. One Velvet Winter on 'Jesus in Dystopia': Simon Menting (vocals; ex-Defender), Marco Nicola (vocals/guitar; Bintangs/ex-Trembling Highburys), Hans Baaij (vocals; ex-The Emerald Tablet, Balloon), Michel Tuin (vocals/guitar; Gardin, ex-The Emerald Tablet), Tim Nijman (guitar; ex-Reload, Goldsleeve), Esteban Carbonero (drums/percussion), Jos Commandeur (guitar; ex-Balloon) and Stef Kohler (guitar/keyboards/vocals/sitar/bass; ex-Defender, The Emerald Tablet, November, Gardin).