The Haiti Projekt - feat. Neal Morse, Roine Stolt, Dave Meros, Andy Tillison...

[ich bin besser]

https://www.thehaitiprojekt.com/

20 $ for not more than 4 hours of great music! 320 kbps mp3 or lossless flac, payable via PayPal.
Alphabetical tracklist:

1 Agents of Mercy - The Fading Ghosts of Twilight (unreleased remix)
2 Ajalon - Footprints Footsteps
3 Andy Tillison - The Spirit of the Net
4 Arkei - Fleeting Moments
5 Arthur Pinchev - Come Fly
6 Asymmetry - Descent
7 Collin Leijenaar - Mystery
8 Dave Meros - Remembrance
9 Dead Heroes Club - The Sleepers are Waking
10 Edensong - Lorelai
11 Ephemeral Sun - Springsong
12 Every Other Ones - Same Old
13 Every Waking Hour - Conspiracy of Silence
14 Factory of Dreams - Reset World
15 Guitar Garden - Cataclysm: Earth to Urth
16 IZZ - Ready to Go
17 Little Atlas - Can I Find It (Live)
18 Mahtrak - Oraculo (Live)
19 Mars Hollow - Midnight
20 Michael Gill - Sunset
21 Mooning - Watches
22 Neal Morse - Sing It High (Live)
23 Peter Matuchniak - Running Blind
24 Pindral - Avalanche
25 Pinnacle - Timberline (unreleased 2010 version)
26 Projection - Inside
27 Relocator - Relocator
28 Roland Enders & Friends - Dreams and Nightmares
29 Shadow Circus - Willoughby
30 Singularity - XOT (Live)
31 Sonus Umbra - March of Folly
32 Soul Secret - Inner War
33 Steve Brockmann - For You
34 Supernal Endgame - You Never Change
35 Tadashi Goto - Inner Peace
36 The Healing Road - Ten Days in March
37 The Mandrake Project - A Miraculous Container
38 The Other Side - Crying World
39 The Sea Turtles - Rollin' 13
40 To-Mera - Another World
 

About The Haiti Projekt
Welcome to the home for the Progressive Rock community's charity CD "The Haiti Projekt". This is our effort to raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake disaster this January 2010. With a death toll estimated to be more than 200,000 with over 300,000 injured and millions without homes, food, or water, the need for humanitarian help is immense. The Haiti Projekt is a compilation of 40 songs donated by famous and not-so-famous prog bands from around the globe.  The list includes prog luminaries such as Neal Morse (Neal Morse, Spocks Beard), IZZ, Roine Stolt (Agents of Mercy, Transatlantic, Flower Kings), Randy George (Ajalon), Dave Meros (Dave Meros, Spocks Beard), and a special appearance by Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Planet X) on the Relocator tune.

This effort is being spearheaded by the co-producer of The Tsunami Projekt and bassist in the instrumental prog metal group Asymmetry, Brian Cobb. In 2005, Brian and Barry Thompson produced a compilation CD that sold over 700 copies and raised over $10,000 for the victims of the Indonesian tsunami disaster. All proceeds were donated to the Red Cross. The same applies to The Haiti Projekt. All proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross in support of their humanitarian efforts in Haiti.

All in all: another GREAT project very worth supporting!  

[faemir]

Bought. I've got a long list of to-listen to stuff though, but i'll probably post a song-by-song verdict once I have heard it.

[Volk9]

Only artist there I recognize is Neal Morse, and I dont even listen to him

[Birch Boy]

Only artist there I recognize is Neal Morse, and I dont even listen to him

[bout to crash]

 

That's what I was thinking. Who are all of those other bands? It's a good cause but I'm not in the money right now so I'd want to make sure I'm getting something I'll enjoy.

[Volk9]

Are they all prog bands?

[Nihil-Morari]

Colin Leijenaar is Neal Morse's drummer, fun fact: we were born in the same town, and he went to the exact same schools as I did.

Dave Meros is Spock's Beard bass player.

But, aside from Neal Morse, that's all I know.

[ich bin besser]

1 Agents of Mercy - The Fading Ghosts of Twilight (unreleased remix): neo-prog featuring Roine Stolt, Jonas Reingold and others
2 Ajalon - Footprints Footsteps: Christian prog rock
3 Andy Tillison - The Spirit of the Net: the mastermind of The Tangent and Parallel Or 90 Degrees
6 Asymmetry - Descent: new prog metal project including members from the SB forum
16 IZZ - Ready to Go: should be quite well known amongst prog rockers!
17 Little Atlas - Can I Find It (Live): very good melodic prog rock band
26 Projection - Inside: German prog rock artist
27 Relocator - Relocator: great instrumental prog metal, with Derek Sherinian on keys. Kyo from this forum is a member.
28 Roland Enders & Friends - Dreams and Nightmares: German prog rock artist
29 Shadow Circus - Willoughby: released 2 very good prog rock CDs so far
30 Singularity - XOT (Live): also quite known in the prog scene
33 Steve Brockmann - For You: German prog rock artist, mostly instrumental stuff. This song has vocals.
36 The Healing Road - Ten Days in March: German prog rock artist. Great instrumental stuff.
39 The Sea Turtles - Rollin' 13: jazz.
 
Just listen to the sound samples on the Haiti homepage. 

[reneranucci]

Bought  The samples did it for me, a good way to find new interesting music (and helping a little bit)

[reneranucci]

Listening to the first song by the Agents of Mercy. They have a Genesis influence  
I definitely like Footprints Footsteps (mellow with some beautiful melodies) and Colinīs song has very cool mments

[bout to crash]

Really? Jazz??


edit: heh, it says they've raised $666.60

[Kyo]

Only artist there I recognize is Neal Morse

Good for you, that means you're going to discover a lot of new artists through this compilation. 

[ich bin besser]

So, anyone else got it in the meantime?

[Nick]

Cool, think I'll probably get this as there is some stuff I enjoy on it, some stuff I've been meaning to check out, and some stuff I don't have any clue about, a perfect mix.

[Jamesman42]

From the Ajalon I've heard, they're pretty good Christian prog rock. Colin's would be interesting to hear. Neal Morse is a no-brainer for me.

[Kyo]

Cool, think I'll probably get this as there is some stuff I enjoy on it, some stuff I've been meaning to check out, and some stuff I don't have any clue about, a perfect mix.

Yeah, it felt similar to me, even though I hardly knew any of the particular songs featured.
I have already ordered several CDs by artists who participated in this compilation based on
their songs (and usually some additional listening to their MySpace samples, of course):

Shadow Circus (x2)
Supernal Endgame
To-Mera (x3 - discovered Haken this way, too)

And I probably would've gone for some release(s) by The Healing Road and Mars
Hollow if I hadn't discovered them not too long before this compilation already.

From the Ajalon I've heard, they're pretty good Christian prog rock. Colin's would be interesting to hear. Neal Morse is a no-brainer for me.

The Neal Morse track sounds like the Testimony version to me...

[Kyo]

We've reached $1500!

[Kyo]

I've been thinking about how we could reach more people with The Haiti Projekt (I've already been bugging bands' webmasters to feature the whole thing in their news sections...) and I realized that there's something I could do myself - get some promo flyers printed and hand them out at the upcoming TA tour! Now of course I will only be at one or two shows in Germany, but maybe we can get more people on board with that idea and spread the word at several more of those upcoming shows? With tracks by Transatlantic's main writers Neal Morse and Roine Stolt we should find quite a few people there who might be interested in this compilation.

So, anyone here willing to help out in some way?

I fear it might already be too late for this to be set up for the US tour dates, but I'd love to be proven wrong about that. The European leg of the tour begins on May 4, so there's still plenty of time to prepare everything.

[Kyo]

We've reached $1500!

Make that $2000. It's not exactly flying off the shelves, but it's something.

Did anyone here get this? What are your favorite tracks?

[faemir]

I still haven't listened to it, I actually forgot. I'll try listen to it soon though.

[Kyo]

Time for an update:

The Haiti Projekt reports the earnings through Aug 10...

Hello everyone. I wanted to let everyone know that I sent The Haiti Projekt money to the American Red Cross today. The totals are as follows and are current through this moment (Aug 10, 2010):

134 copies sold
$2,680.00 gross intake
$130.72 in PayPal fees
$2,549.28 net intake

I wrote the Red Cross a $2,600.00 check. Once I have a confirmation for the donation, I'll post a scan (for The Tsunami Projekt, they sent us a nice letter of thanks...).

Thanks to those who bought a copy. For those of you who have not, it is still available at https://www.thehaitiprojekt.com

Brian