Mandoki Soulmates
Living In The Gap & Hungarian Pictures


Tracks:

Disk 1

1. Living In The Gap
2. Young Rebels
3. Turn The Wind
4. Where We Belong
5. Let The Music Show You The Way
6. Too Much Pride
7. Old Rebels
8. Welcome To Real Life
9. Hottest Queen Of Cool
10. Wake Up
11. Mother Europe
12. I'm Not Your Enemy

Disk 2

1. Hungarian Pictures 1 - Sessions In The Village
2. Hungarian Pictures 2 - Utopia For Realists
3. Hungarian Pictures 3 - Transylvanian Dances
4. Hungarian Pictures 4 - You'll Find Me In Your Mirror
5. Hungarian Pictures 5 - Return To Budapest
6. Hungarian Pictures 6 - Barbaro
7. Hungarian Pictures 7 - The Torch

Line up:

Leslie Mandoki
Bobby Kimball
Chris Thompson
Ian Anderson
Jack Bruce
Nick van Eede
Peter Maffay
David Clayton-Thomas
Tony Carey
John Helliwell
Jesse Siebenberg
Julia Mandoki
Al di Meola
Mike Stern
Simon Phillips
Randy Brecker
Ada Brecker
Bill Evans
Till Brönner
Cory Henry
Richard Bona
Steve Bailey

Record Label / Year of Release:

Red Rock (Sony Music) 2019

Notes:

Mandoki Soulmates Living In The Gap + Hungarian Pictures on Double CD and Premium with double CD and double vinyl.

With the new concept double album Living In The Gap + Hungarian Pictures, the Mandoki Soulmates succeeds in redefining prog rock in the mature sound of today.

Leslie Mandoki, Bobby Kimball (Toto), Chris Thompson (Earth Band), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Jack Bruce (Cream), Nick van Eede (Cutting Crew), Peter Maffay, David Clayton-Thomas (BS & T) , Tony Carey (Rainbow), John Helliwell and Jesse Siebenberg (Supertramp), Julia Mandoki, Aldi Meola, Mike Stern, Simon Phillips, Randy Brecker, Ada Brecker, Bill Evans, Till Brönner, Cory Henry, Richard Bona, and Steve Bailey and more.

A concept album that expressly takes a stand on social changes. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, happiness rained from the sky, so Mandoki we had every opportunity to form a society in which the people are really at the center. Instead, we experience a primacy of selfishness and greedy casino capitalism, extreme social imbalances and an irreversibly destroyed environment. There is much to do for the next generation of young rebels who have to take to the streets today because of our collective failure!

Musically, the Soulmates put everything in the balance, what the crème de la crème of jazz and rock has to offer. Great music moments, rousing improvisations, wonderful sound and unbridled joy of playing.

10 new Soulmates songs plus two songs where the Soulmates to archive tapes playing with her late founding member Jack Bruce and so take him again into their midst.

CD2 is an ambitious 47-min. ProgRock Suite Hungarian Pictures based on themes by Béla Bartók with new compositions and included songs. Mandoki had planned to realize this idea together with Greg Lake of ELP years ago.

Total playing time: 67min + 46min