Astrakhan - RetrospectiveCD reissue. 2013 release. When Retrospective was released back in 2013 the worlds magazines turned their views towards this new band from Sweden. Is this a "super group" from Sweden featuring members from Pain of Salvation, Royal Hunt, Evergrey? Apart from musicians that was familiar faces from the prog scene Astrakhan was fronted by Sweden's best vocalist Alex Lycke. Alex experience from the international world of musicals was some thing else than

and Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley

Joel Scott Hill and original Burrito pedal steel legend

a benchmark of Judeo chaâbi music (a genre born in the Kasbah of Algiers in the 1920s

He must fund his escape through illegal means

conducted by major figures including the universally acclaimed Rozhdestvensky

Wild Dogs is a brilliant pop/rock album that never got a fair chance - until now

but this recording was made entirely within Guyana

As a gesture of gratitude for the invitation

the complete oeuvre of Marcel Dupré (on Guild)

he is finally forced to be true to himself

and he in turn is grateful to the Edition Offenburg publishing company

becomes her small village's Gravekeeper when her mother