GENTŌ Rock

Bioscope is the highly anticipated collaborative project from guitar maestro Steve Rothery, founding member of Marillion, who has sold millions of albums worldwide and helped define the sound of progressive rock with charttopping records and from electronic visionary Thorsten Quaeschning, musical director of Tangerine Dream,credited on over 100 album releases and known for his acclaimed work on major film and game soundtracks. The word Bioscope comes from the Greek bios meaning life and skopeein meaning to look prior to the invention of cinema, it meant a view or survey of life. And thats what Bioscope is about.The first album to emerge from this project is called Gent, named after the Japanese term for magic lantern, a stillimage projection system. It started life in early 2020 and after several fiveday trips to Berlin over the years, and a few days in Steve Rotherys home studio, it was finally ready to be mixed and mastered.Each of the five instrumental tracks takes its inspiration from man039s endearing fascination with the moving image. They weave together Rotherys emotive, melodicguitar work with Quaeschnings expansive soundscapes, creating a mesmerizing journey through light and darkness, memory and imagination, featuring an amazing performance by Elbows drummer Alex Reeves. With soaring guitar solos that evoke classic progressive rock to hypnotic sequencerdriven passages reminiscent of Berlin Schoolelectronica, the album flows like a soundtrack to an unmade film.