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The Trance
Farewell to a world untorn

Album AT 2018 on Time For Action Records label
Rock and Pop (Beat, Psychedelic Rock)

Hans Pokora, famous record collector/book editor and a supporter of The Trance likes this album and has left these statements about it: The LP turned out absolutely brilliant! An excellent work in all respects! The best tracks are those featuring massive organ and fuzz guitar! Habe mir dieLP angehört und die ist wirklich sehr gut geworden. Das Insert ist toll geworden und gute Information. Die besten Stücke sind mit dominierender Orgel und gleichzeitiger Fuzz Gitarre! Alles sehr gut gelungen ! A new day was dawning – rubbing its eyes as a child does – looking for another fresh adventure, aiming to own every hour and peer down every path that might be revealed. After the fall of the wall, proud Vienna pro- ceeded to shake the ashes off her wedding cake façades. The West had won and the Wild East had been cracked wide open. It was here that in early 1996 Norb, Ted and Znarf decided to put the freak back into freakbeat, and for a few short years they were the Trance. Yet despite their modest dreams of recording a 7-inch and world domination, the groop broke up in late 1998. To every traveller his story Norb Payr, guitar and vocals Like a supernova, the Malawi-born Carinthian has always seemed to be slow-burning towards his higher self. The songwriter formed down & dirty rockers the Road in 1990, played lead with the Jaybirds from the mid-90s, and later founded the Subcandies before going solo and releasing two gorgeous lps. In his own words: “After joining the Jaybirds in 1995, I was having a fantastic time touring Europe, learning the ropes, and having fun. But I began wanting to get my own music out there. That’s why me and my friends founded the Trance – just to play self-penned songs in our own style. That’s it.” Ted Snydal, bass and vocals Theodore Sigurður Kristjan is an Oregon-born northern Californian, an artist and a songwriter. After founding psych garage experience the Melt with Matt Murdock in 1990, he moved to Austria and hooked up with Norb’s outfit the Road in 1994, which then grew into the Trance. “I was driven. I knew there was a wider world out there and followed its call. I bent my life around it. It was a returning to the Old World – a world that had been torn – and goodbye to the peculiar freedom of the frontier. My music didn’t weigh much, so I brought my tunes along.” Znarf Huber, Hammond organ Bringing the sumptuous organ sound to the groop, the man also known as Franz could never conceal his passion for b2s, Farfisas, and the tremelo setting of his Leslie machine. Previously with the Road and later with Norb’s Subcandies, he’s now back on bass playing with Vienna’s Wise Monkey. First on the sticks was Erich Mader (side 2: tracks 1, 2 & 6) followed by Mike Kratochwil on drums, hailing from deepest Meidling and known to have quite a thing for taxi cabs. where credit is due All songs written by Payr/Snydal except Trance (Murdock/Snydal). Additional backing vocals on Palace of my Dreams by Gerhild Hartmann & Kony Ortner, on Femme Fatale by Philipp Krenn. Recorded on 16 tracks in April & May of 1997 at ekh Studios, Vienna, mixed by Christina Bauer & the groop, mastered by Christoph Amann, cd issued on road records (rr 001, 500 pcs.) Vinyl release remastered by Thomas Meitz & issued on Time for Action records (timeforaction.de). Groop photos by Gerald Zahn, outer space photos by nasa, artwork & text by Sigurður Snydal. Farewell to a World Untorn Originally released as The Trance play organ pop sounds (road records 1998), this reissue marks the 20th anniversary with a brilliant remix by Thomas Meitz and a previously unreleased song: the Ride, resurrected and remastered from 4-track multi-tracker recordings destined for a long-lost 1996 cassingle. Also included from the session are Magic Sphere & Why me, issued as a 7-inch on Dornbach Records in 2015 (dr 1504, 100 pcs.), which was swiftly sold out to avid fans. Here we go now with a super limited vinyl pressing of 200 copies only… featuring all 9 songs from the CD, three bonus tracks, fully remastered, and a posh inlay sheet.

Musicians

	The Trance , AT album by
	Erich Mader drums
	Mike K. dr, drums
	Znarf Hoover organ
	Ted Snydal b, voc, vocals, bass
	Norb Payr voc, g, AT vocals, guitar

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