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Release Date Friday 22nd August 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Exciting news
Steve Rothery will be joining us in the shop on Saturday 23rd August 2025 for a Q & A starting at 4pm
As you may know our shop is pretty tiny so we only have a VERY Limited amount of space available for this event - All you have to do to Guarantee entry is pre order a copy of the album on any format below - please note this will be a standing event
No tickets are being issued once ordered your name automatically gets added to our door list
Albums will be ready to be picked up for the release day upto and including the day of the event.
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 chart-topping 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 that’s what Bioscope is about.
The first album to emerge from this project is called Gentō, named after the Japanese
term for “magic lantern”, a still-image projection system. It started life in early 2020 and
after several five-day trips to Berlin over the years, and a few days in Steve Rothery’s
home studio, it was finally ready to be mixed and mastered.
Each of the five instrumental tracks takes it’s inspiration from man's endearing
fascination with the moving image. They weave together Rothery’s emotive, melodic
guitar work with Quaeschning’s expansive soundscapes, creating a mesmerizing journey
through light and darkness, memory and imagination, featuring an amazing performance
by Elbow’s drummer Alex Reeves. With soaring guitar solos that evoke classic
progressive rock to hypnotic sequencer-driven passages reminiscent of Berlin School
electronica, the album flows like a soundtrack to an unmade film.
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