New projects!

RanestRane reveiled their secrets to Whiskey Soda magazine during the Night of the Prog Festival which can be found here

**We wrote new music and dealt with a very well known war movie. May we betray that? "

Whiskey soda is one of the first magazines to tell you something about the new RanestRane projects. The well-known war film is of course Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam masterpiece "Apocalypse Now". The film from the 70s came later in an extended "Redux version" again in the movie theaters and was recently brought to a new anniversary edition as a so-called "Final Cut" with improved image and sound quality again in selected cinemas. Martin Sheen's cinematic journey into the jungle and the abysmal madness of the war is therefore the new inspiration for the Italians, and one can be very excited about the result.


But that's not all. The creative musicians have another secret in their hands. "We are currently working on another project. It will be a 'CineConcert' that deals with the Alan Parker adaptation of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'. Now we have revealed two secrets. We will interpret the Pink Floyd music and use our own music for the parts in the film that are so far without music. "Again, the music will be perfectly synchronized to the film.**

A lovely journey before summer arrives

The boys has almost finished their tour before summerbreak will start and we would like to share some photo's of their journey through Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Our photographers did their best to give you the best impression of what is happening on stage.

Our photographers:

Roberto Scorta

Emanuela di Stefano

Valter Boati 

Catia de Cicco

Lilian Boomsema

RanestRane 

and Fans for their reports on Facebook groups <3 

Reviews can be found here:

the Netherlands 

Sweden

Brothers Roel and Henri made video's of the gig in the Netherlands 

Il Tempo É Labile/Il Mattino Ha L'Oro In Bocca/"Fammi Uscire"!

L'Ultimo Incontro/Il Ritrovamento /Via Da Wismar

Materna Luna

la Perfezione Che Si Cerca/Sonno Come morte/Buio Intorno

Ofcourse we would love to receive your photo's, reviews, quicksnaps, ideas and other RanestRane related creations. Feel free to share them with us all.

Thank you all for your support and friendship <3 

RanestRane goes Gothenburg

RanestRane went to Gothenburg for the very first time. Full of excitement and joy we went to Musikens Hus Gothenburg on the 4th of March.

GARF arranged a lovely mini festival where RanestRane was the second act. Together with Skull Parade and main act Änglagård we tried to make a wonderful evening full of music. 

It's always a bit scary and nervous to enter a new venue, a new place, this would be the first time in Sweden. RanestRane delivered the best they could and we from Fanweb Scandinavia had only our hope and believe in the best for the start of something beautiful in Sweden. The concert was wonderful and we were not the only one with these thoughts. We received a lot of great feedback from fans and new fans! We would love to share these words with you, words from the fans in Sweden.

Karl Göran Karlsson: " Thanks for a fantastic gig! The whole concert was good but the peak of your performance was "Monolith - Part II". Absolutely superb! I really like Italian prog and Ranestrane is surely another excellent contribution here. I wish you good luck with your tour and hope to see you soon again in Sweden."

  

Robert Larsson: Robert, Lilian and RanestRane. It was a pleasure to have you here. A splendid perfomance, the audience were really excited after the show. You noticed it in the merch area, right? :) And Riccardo, thank´s for not giving up when technique wasn´t on the friendly side. Perfect!!! Good luck with the rest of the tour!

Martin Hansen: I think this was the best concert I've heard for a long time. Your music and videoprojection was very nice, I like this kind of music. It was a very good first gig here in Sweden and I hope this was not the last time we see you here. You are always welcome back in Sweden. We love you. Your show was fantastic, and you are such good musicians together. Keep on playing and make new music. Forza Italia!!/Martin Hansen

Jan Erik wrote us an email:

" We started a trip on a cold saturday morning from our home 400 km away from Gothenborg, it has snowed that night, not that much, but still I was wondering how will it be to drive in this weather. But lucky we were, my wife and I, it was no problem at all. We came to the biggest city on the west coast of Sweden and were eating some dinner before we went to Musikens Hus. 

The first band was Skull Parade. At 20.00 THE band I have want to see live for so long time, entered the stage, and I must say it was amazing! Right from the beginning I got the shivers and goosebumps and felt so happy, they played and they got the audience to realise what they are experiencing, This band is good. And as longer the show went on the audience started to dance, scream and and make big applause, Ranestrane THEY came, THEY played and THEY succeed, I spoke with some other people after the show and one man said, this was just amazing, it was true magic, Those Italians, they can play, this was the best concert I've seen after so many years, and I just said; I agree. I'm sure that they made a footprint in Gothenborg and I hope that it will spread over Sweden so we can go and see Ranestrane again, This was magic as the man said, true magic and I can drive 1000 km just to see them again, but I think I will take a plane instead, because I will see RanestRane again, that's for sure"

Reviews about RanestRane

Here you can find links to reviews about RanestRane and their albums.*

From the Netherlands

Progvisions: Nosferatu
Progpraat: H.A.L MonolithA Space Odyssey 
Backgroundmagazine: Write RanestRane in the search field:-)

From Japan

Yoshiko Prog Blog

From Sweden

Lilian's Corner: The Shining
Metallbibliotekarierna: RanestRane

Do you have reviews which you want to share? Feel free to contact us! Our email: ranestrane.scandinavia@gmail.com

*This page will be updated every month!

Review RanestRane H.A.L

Our friend Henri Strik from backgroundmagazine.nl wrote a review about the new album H.A.L

I can only come to one conclusion. They made a true masterpiece with this release. Everything just falls into place on this CD.

You can read the review here

Thank you very much Henri for you review!

You can buy the new album at the RanestRane Store 
Buy your copy today!

Review Concert RanestRane in Uden 6th of December.

Buongiorno!

Our friend Henri Strik of Background Magazine surprised us with a lovely review of the concert in Uden The Netherlands which was on the 6th of December.

The first set was for the brand new album H.A.L.. The music they would perform was almost completely new to me, because the album was on sale for the first time during this tour. Only their first tease (Spacewalk) on the band's first live release Monolith In Rome - A Space Odyssey Live (2015, see review) and a couple of video fragments on the internet revealed what I could expect.

Review click here

Roel Strik made video's during the show which you can see here below. 

Thank you Roel and Henri for your review and video's!! 

If you want to see more from RanestRane and other Italian progbands, take a look at Henri's website http://www.backgroundmagazine.nl

Video's of Roel Strik

  

Review Concert Copenhagen the 4th of December

Robert wrote a review about the gig last weekend in Copenhagen! 
We had a great time in this city with much learning and discovering regarding the band and this concert. We truly hope that we can do this all over again :-)

Hereby some photo's regarding the concert:

 

The review of Robert:

Hi all

As promised the review about the RanestRane-show in Copenhagen at Friday the 4th of December 2015.

The event took place at a beautiful venue arranged by promoter Karsten Mortensen called Koncertkirken in Copenhagen.

The show

RanestRane kicked of with a beautiful intro which fitted perfectly. It took place in a church, what went on into the intro of the first song of H.A.L, the NEW album.

After the boys took their place on the stage, the "real thing" started, H.A.L in full length and power!

It took a few songs before the sound was good but during "Spacewalk" it got better and it was starting to get on "fire"!!!! The audience noticed that too and gave a warm applause after every played song, and that’s more than deserved due to the fact that H.A.L is a ”Masterpiece"!!! I will come with a review about HAL later. Without forgetting one of the other musicians, they are all four superb! The ballad "Buio Intorno" really made a ”marker" with Riccardo Romano on keyboards and Danny Pomo on vocals. But the passion and power they give to that song is just magnificent, magical!!!

The other song what really gave a thrill was ”Computer Malfunction”, here the band showed their skill on the instruments, combined with the Italian passion...."GRANDE"!!!!

After this the boys took a five minute break to come back with some of the older stuff starting with "Shining".

Kicking of with "Redrum" is by no means probably the best example about whats it all about with RanestRane.....music and movie....the classic scene of Jack breaking down the door with his axe, and Danny Pomo playing his drums. You just have to see that! I made a video of it, and it’s on You Tube called ’RanestRane Live in Copenhagen’!!! During this set I got the feeling the guys really where on fire and gave it all, great set in every way!

After this it was time for the more "Romantic and Classic”, Nosferatu.....

There just was "something" about this set, the music, Dracula, Lucy and all this played in a church.

It was almost if everybody was "in the music" and "in the movie" a strange vibe but good vibe, it just felt right!

I think a lot of RR fans have a "thing" for the Nosferatu album. Maybe because its their first, or maybe it’s the story.....but there is "something".

At the end it was time for some Monolith. Here the guys put’s on their best jacket and rocked the house!!! Leaving the audience with a standing ovation!!!

To return for an encore where some other Nosferatu pieces where played.

All good things come to an end… the audience loved it, and I talked to a lot of happy people after the show and got a lot of good and helpful feedback.

On a personal note;

Was it all perfect then? I asked myself......well probably not. Some things can be better or done different maybe,but it’s RR first European solo-tour. So there is probably a lot to learn too....

But for many of us, and them too, it’s a memory for life and a new experience where everybody has learned from, which can be helpful in the future.

One thing I do think we all have in common when it comes to this band: They deserve the best!!!! If they had unlimited resources to do it like they want it to??

Think BIG now!!......But until then its gonna be a "struggle" to survive in a "music-industry" where people hardly take the time anymore to listen to music.....sad but true..

But we will keep on supporting this magnificent band with whole our hearts and do our best to make it work out right!!!

Hoping to see you out there again at another RanestRane gig!!!

Halloween with RanestRane and the Steven Rothery Band

Hi all!

Last month the boys supported the Steve Rothery Band in 3 places, Russelheim, Uden and Cologne where the lucky places. Unfortunately we were not there but we asked our friends to keep us updated during these 3 days and asked them to surprise us with photo's and small reviews!

We enjoyed all updates and we will show some of them!

Marjo Klingenberg (Uden)

Most of the time, when you are going to a gig, you are not looking forward tot he support act, because it’s the main act you want to see. But there are a few exceptions and one of them is the amazing RanestRane. The first time I saw them was over a year ago in Ulft when they were touring with the SRB and it was a jaw dropping experience. Second time I saw them during the Marillion Weekend PZ 2015 and again they were fantastic. The third time, true magic happend on stage in Roma together with Steve Hogarth, and they lifted the whole gig to a ridiculous high level. 

And then there was last Saturday 31 October in Uden, again as support act fort he SRB, but to be honest, RanestRane has passed the status of being a support act by far now. Normally the venue isn’t full yet when a support act starts, but it was full in Uden. Most of the time people don’t stop their conversations when a support act starts playing, instead they start talking louder, but at the moment RanestRane started playing Semi, you could hear a pin drop. 

The whole performance was just amazing (again) and according to the response of the the crowd they agreed. 

Is it a problem they don’t sing in English? Well, music is emotion and the Italian language (for me) is passion and emotion in one, so for me it even gives an extra dimension to the allready awesome music. Therefore I hope they wil never change this and keep singing in Italian.

Daniele Pomo, Riccardo Romano, Massimo Pomo and Maurizio Meo are passionate musicians from the highest level and they are getting better every time I see them. I can’t wait to see them again on December 6th when they are going to perform their new album H.A.L. If you haven’t seen them live before just buy a ticket, you are in for a real treat from an awesome band, and they deserve to be seen and heard and they deserve a ‘SOLD OUT’ sign on the venue of De Pul Uden.

Paul Kooijmans gave us some shots of his phone :-) He told us the following:

I'm not known with this band, but I loved what I heard! They received a huge applause which was well deserved!

Marco Keijzer also shared a photo as he couldn't resist to not take a few quicksnaps! 

He told us the following: I'm neither so very known with this band, I think I miss a front person or so, I cannot explain what I miss, but the music is lovely to hear and I'm really looking forward to the next album Monolith part 2! ( We told him that H.A.L. will be the part 2 ;-) And that it will be released very soon!)

Carolien van Goethem told us the following:

This was the 3th time I saw Ranestrane and I really enjoyed it. I don't understand Italian but their atmosphic music and lyrics took me away to dreamy street again. I loved to see them enjoying themselves on stage together. I am looking forward too their new album and hope too see them 6 dec in Uden again 

Christine Westbroek wrote us the following:

A Halloween night with RanestRane

Usually people try to scare the hell out of you at Halloween but this year I had a quite other experience. 

As a supportact for the Steven Rotheryband we got to see the Italian band RanestRane.

Four very nice guys who clearly enjoy to collaborate together and who performed the music from their first album Monolith, part 1 of a serie of three called A Space Odyssey.

On this night we heard the atmospheric and sometimes haunting sounds from the trip through space. 

Sometimes I got a feeling that I would like to hear some more vocals but on the other hand I think that they let us experience the emptiness and loneliness of space.

The compositions are really nice and the solo’s give space to all instruments and are showing the skills of all 4 bandmembers. 

I have to admit that I am not a great fan of supportacts because I have seen too many of them that I did not like at all but the 40 minutes RanestRane was playing were flying by and I really would have loved to hear more of them. 

Instead of scaring me they made me feel really happy that night. 

If you want to see this great band too then get your chance and go to see them in The Pul in Uden on 6 December. You are really in for a treat and you’ll get to hear more of them because this time they are not supporting an other band but playing a full gig. Don’t miss it!

Even our friend Kim Hostrup Hansen from Denmark went to one of the gigs! He went to Cologne and surprised us with a review and photo's! Even a familiar face of our Italian friend Irene! Hi dear Irene! :-)

The Shining in the spotlights!!

This week is The Shining week!

Robert made a review regarding this album which you can read below.

Review of RanestRanes second 2cd album Shining based on Stanley Kubricks movie from 1980 with my fave actor Jack Nicholson in the leading rol......again I highly recommend to see the movie....and if possible...synchronize it with the album....you`ll be amazed!!!!!

As the first album Nosferatu had a more "classic and symphonic" touch.....Here we get to hear a more "aggressive" side of RR, more guitar-riffs and pumping bass....

cd.1 contains 12 tracks whom are beautiful mixed with movie-scenes .....again RR managed to catch the mood of the scenes perfectly ....sinister, dark, suspense, anger, fear….

Although quite a lot of tracks have movie-sounds in it, there a still some who would fit perfect in a live-set without the movie to back it up......this time I`m not going to tell which ones....you find out yourselves...but it keeps 

the "attention" throughout the whole cd without being boring...

cd.2 contains 11 tracks….same story...and here you should really try to play movie and music in synchro `cause when Jack breaks down the bathroom door with his axe?? (classic scene from the movie).....SUPERB!!!!!!....BRILLIANT!!!!!

What RR really does perfect is finding the way to build up the tension during the movie….

the  Labirinto-scenes with Jack chasing Danny???.....Wonderful!

Here too,like on Nosferatu... RR saves the best for last .....the end pieces are so beautifully done that you want to play them over and over again....(at least thats what happened to me..)...

The concept "cine-rock" isn`t an easy thing for a musician.....I play guitar, bass and drums myself so I think I know little about the "problem" the guys have to face in doing this.......they are more or less stuck in "time-frames".....the movie can`t be changed....scenes are as long as they are...

In the "normal" way you can make the songs as long as you want.....and live even longer!!!

Gilmour´s solo on C-numb has gotten longer over the years......I`ve been listening to some very good solos of Massimo and would love to hear more and I guess he would have loved to carry on with them too....but....new scene, new sound....and that is for the whole band the same story….not easy…

But they managed it well!!

Fact is that "shining" is a very good album with some exciting and surprising elements in it......it also has the feel the band has grown as a "unity"......its feels as if we`re dealing with four brothers instead of 2 (Massimo and Danny are brothers)......Riccardo, Maurizio,Massimo & Daniele ...are playing with heart and soul….and that is what we hear on this album….and we thank them for that.

Robert.

You can read more about this album HERE and HERE

Review The Shining

A recent review of The Shining is now online.
You will find the review here

Enjoy reading.

Review from the Netherlands

And so we have a new review about the album Monolith in Rome written by Mr. Henri 

You can read the review here: http://www.backgroundmagazine.nl/CDreviews/RanestRaneMonolithInRome.html

Thank you Henri for your review and support!