MYSTERIES OF THE REVOLUTION: LONGING FOR THE DAWN



PHENOMENAL NEW ALBUM!
by John Pritchard, May 13, 2022

What can I say? These guys are truly phenomenal!

Today is the official release date of their newest album in 14 years: LONGING FOR THE DAWN.

Just watch their retro-comic-sci-fi music video for “Starbird Chasing the Infinite” and tell me what happens to the music at 2:11... that's right... IT GETS EVEN MORE FABULOUS!!! (see below)



You can hear seriously awesome composition skills here and I love Daniel Biro taking off on the organ. BB Davis locks down the rhythm with ferociously tasty moments and the whole piece is a sonic voyage into jazz-rock futuro heaven!

What’s also great about the music video is how the edits sync up so well with the music. As a filmmaker myself, I deeply appreciate the time and care that went into this promo… and then the rest of the album is just killer great as well!

Every track is instrumentally fresh and their other great music video, One Whisper (see below), is a serious groover… just sit back and listen and get down with this funky, mellifluous jam… so well orchestrated and so many sonic surprises!



Every single track on the album is pure joy and the engineering is what makes it all shine so bright. Kudos to masters Davis and Biro!… and all their fabulous musical guests: Vincenzo Lamagna: guitar; Andy Alexander: bass; and on track 5, Don Stuart on flute and Russ Parker on guitar.

These guys really bring it in a GREAT way and nothing on this new album disappoints. Bravo “MYSTERIES OF THE REVOLUTION”… Bravo, Bravo!!! 5 Stars!

Special Collectors Edition at Burning Shed: CD in individually hand-painted sleeve, numbered and signed by BB Davis. Strictly limited to 150 copies, each sleeve is a unique work of art.



Daniel Biro (born 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a London-based keyboard player, composer, sound-designer and producer. His music draws upon diverse roots in jazz, rock, minimalist, and electronic music. As an improvisor, Biro specializes in exploring the sonic depths of the Rhodes piano, with which he performs regularly.



Before co-creating Mysteries of the Revoltuion, multi-instrumentalist BB Davis founded THE RED ORCHIDSTRA with virtuoso keyboardist Daniel Biro. They produced one of the all time groove classics with their 2012 version of Roy Budd's theme from the seminal '70's gangster movie “Get Carter!”

PRESS RELEASE: MYSTERIES OF THE REVOLUTION ‘LONGING FOR THE DAWN’

No mystery: the jazz-rock/prog revolution returns

March 1, 2022 - Fourteen years after releasing their critically acclaimed eponymous debut album, Mysteries of the Revolution are finally back with ‘Longing For The Dawn’, a brand new, fully instrumental jazz-rock/prog fest including nine scorching tracks (retaining echoes of passionate progressive 70s fusion trail blazers such as Mahavishnu, Soft Machine, Weather Report, Santana, Return To Forever etc).

‘Longing For The Dawn’ has proved a sustained and arduous journey for virtuosic keyboardist/composer Daniel Biro and multi-instrumentalist BB Davis (drums, flute, voice). Following the tragic and untimely death of the band’s close friend and bassist Mark Smith (to whom ‘Longing For The Dawn’ is dedicated) compounded by the Covid crisis, they have nevertheless worked relentlessly towards a new advent, a new awakening, resulting in ‘Longing For The Dawn’.

Biro and Davis are joined on the album by brilliant Neapolitan guitarist Vincenzo Lamagna making a guest appearance, as well as contributions by Andy Alexander (bass), Don Stuart (alto flute) and Russ Parker (guitar). But this is mainly a fiery keyboard-led album of Rhodes electric piano, Hammond organ and analogue synths driven by Davis’ pulsing drumming and unique solo b forays (particularly evident on the visceral ‘Babylon Everything’).

The compositions are a mixture of memorable melodic statements soaring above big heavy grooves (‘You Turn me On’, ‘Heavy On Karma’, ‘Joe’, ‘Pharaoh’s Scribbled Phantasms’) alternating with more delicate ethereal melancholy moods (‘Longing For The Dawn’, ‘The Distance Between Us’). And while there is some extensive soloing throughout, the playing never strays into gratuitous technical show-off territory.

Biro says: “Our aim was, yes, to evoke those heroic days of 70s jazz-rock with its burning electric energy and guru-led grandeur, but mainly we wanted to inhabit the spirit of risk- taking and adventure that those artists inhabited. People like Zawinul, Corea, McLaughlin,
Zappa, Hancock were great players but also fabulously original composers who went beyond categories and genres. With this album I think we’ve reached our peak. We’ve put all our ideas and soul into these tracks.”

In true Renaissance style, BB Davis is also a consummate painter whose work has been exhibited throughout Europe. His artwork graces the album cover (a detail from his work ‘Eyeless In Gaza’) and there will be a special limited collectors item edition of individually hand-painted, signed and numbered CD sleeves by Davis. Each a unique work of art.

ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 13th May 2022

CONTACT:
info@mysteriesoftherevolution.com -
+44 7770 890789
www.mysteriesoftherevolution.com

LONGING FOR
THE DAWN

Released: May 13, 2022

Mysteries Of The Revolution are:

BB Davis: drums, flute, beatvox

Daniel Biro: keyboards

With special guests:

Produced by Daniel Biro and BB Davis




MYSTERIES OF THE REVOLUTION

MOTR's 2007 eponymous album is a mystical/urban concept-album that journeys from light - the heavenly chorale of ‘Welcome’ - to the darkness of ‘Moonfrog’s Tucker’ and the apocalyptic ‘Have You Seen Enough?’, backing into the light once more with ‘Evolution’. 
  
It is also a journey of intense emotional, passionate instrumental playing by all three protagonists, as in the growling ‘The Crunch’ or the driving ‘Romantica’, evoking the 70's electronica of Weather Report, Mahavishnu, Lifetime etc as well as its psychedelic experimentation. 

But MOTR's not on any nostalgia trip. It's about sonic energy, edgy powerful compositions and inspired improvisations that collide in a fresh, expansive, multi-faceted whole. 

released June 1, 2007 

BB Davis - drums, flute, percussion, beatvox/voice. 

Daniel Biro – keyboards, electronica, percussion 

Mark Smith - bass