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Monday, 05 January 2009

S.O.T.E.

Members:

Gerton Leijdekker - Lead Vocals, guitar, baritone guitar, guitar synthesizer
Peter H. Boer - 6-String fretted and fretless bass guitars, 8-string bass guitar, backing vocals, foot controlled slater note-processor synthesizer.
Emile boellaard - Drums, percussion, backing vocals, pad controlled slater note-processor synthesizer.

Country: Germany

Biography:

Songs of the Exile (S.O.T.E.) is a progressive power-trio in the purest sense.

Founded in 1993 by Gerton Leijdekker, Peter H. Boer and Menno de Vries, 3 musicians with a wide variety of musical tastes (Yes, Frank Zappa, Allan Holdsworth, Richard Wagner, Terrt Bozzio, Gustav Mahler, Dream Theater, Steve Vai, Thelonious Monk, Queen, Saga, etc), but with a shared love for the canadian band Rush.

Progressing a drive to create a 5-song tittles demo was made, consiting of only originals. This demo was very well received locally.

The following year "and about time" was released as demo. This time consisting of 6 songs filling a full hour. Again this demo was very well received locally, which inspired S.O.T.E. enough to return to the writing stage and create new songs.

S.O.T.E. is progressive, in the iteral sense. The result can be found in the compositions by the varied mix of hard and soft, wide and close, dense and open, small and bombastic, in which the song and melody play a leading part. The power-trio concept gives this a very specific twist, resulting in a recognisable and one of a kind sound.

The use of 'extended range' instruments, like bariton-guitar, 6 string bass-guitar and stick, with added guitar, pad and pedal-synths, enriches the sound canvas to far outside that of a normal powr-tro.

Symphonic hardrock/progressive metal/vocal power-fusion, whatever. S.O.T.E. is hard to categorise.

Discography:

Reasons (2008)

1. Reason
2. Alone
3. Lacrimosa
4. Natural
5. Countdown
6. Wind
7. Too
8. Breath of life part 1
9. Breath of life part 2
10. Vaguely
11. One
12. Tree
13. Change

Time to End (2003)

1. The blandness of being
2. Morning Session
3. Jack's a friend
4. The Dats Fly Past
5. Something building
6. Fire incarnate
7. Bitter
8. Victim of circumstances
9. Different sensation
10. Time to End!

Time re-arranged (2000)

1. Choosing A Blindfold
i. Predule
ii. Question
iii. Answer
iv. Consequence
v. Conclusion
2. Fragments
3. Stressed Again
4. Remembrance
6. Where's 5
7. The Void

And About Time (1995)

1. Songs of the exiled
2. Brooding
3. Brooken Illusions
4. Stand Tall
5. I
6. Could I

S.O.T.E.

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