Con Brio by Legacy Pilots

Frank Us and his friends have created a debut album that delivers an enormous bandwidth and that was clearly inspired by the golden era of progressive rock.
Bands like ELP, Genesis, Marillion, UK, Yes, Rush, the early Queen or King Crimson were the influences that cemented Frank's love for this genre.
CON BRIO features many big names in the scene: Marco Minnemann (UK, Steven Wilson), Steve Morse (Deep Purple), Todd Sucherman (STYX), Steve Rothery and Mark Kelly (Marillion) and John Mitchell (Arena, Kino), to name but a few. This project not only offers intense music with top-class artists, it also supports the children's aid organization WORLD VISION, which Frank has been helping for so long.
For more than one and a half years, Frank Us has been working on the debut of Legacy Pilots.
The result is an album that demands attention from the listener. The compositions are deep, providing the artists with the necessary freedom for their art. The incorporated time and tempo changes that create interesting polyrhythms, sound textures that build worlds in the listener’s mind and styles that vary from elegy to emotional outbursts.
Much attention has also been paid to the sound quality and production which deserve to be heard in an audiophile setting.
That’s why Legacy Pilots’ debut album CON BRIO is considered to be an invitation to an audible voyage.

Tracklist

1.	The Emerson Empire	7:05

2.	Handle With Care	4:09

3.	Value 8	3:55

4.	The Stumbling Heart	8:31

5.	No Place For Us	5:11

6.	The Spirit Is Forever	5:28

7.	Fight The Demons	8:09

8.	For A Better World	3:06

9.	Con Brio	5:23

Credits

released October 15, 2018

Marco, Steve, Steven,Todd, Mark, Bill, John, Georg, Lars, Ricky, Liza, Andrew - I’m unbelievably proud to have you all on board for this album.

Additional thanks are going to Stefan Trowbridge, Micho Prahl, J.R. Taylor, Tom from HP Mastering and Konstanze.
Special thanks to my friend Georg who was a big support in so many aspects of this project.

Thanks to my dearest one Astrid & Liza - They have been an incredible support for this project that took so much time.

Composed, recorded & produced in Cubase Pro and mastered in Wavelab Pro between April 2017 & August 2018.
All songs written by Frank Us.
Recordings have taken place in San Diego, Austin, London, Hamburg and probably some other places in the world…

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