Dig The New Breed

Supergroup collaborator and solo artist Neal Morse has switched things up for his latest album, No Hill For A Climber, and brought in a new team of young talent, referred to as The Resonance. The artist discusses working in a different way, the challenges of lyric-writing, and whether this spells the end of his songwriting partnership with Mike Portnoy.

Rich Wilson

“You can’t have it being too much on the ears, you know, you need moments like Yes had with the ‘I get up, I get down’ section on Close To The Edge.” Musical genres can gradually fade away, as the more prominent protagonists age gracefully and commence thoughts of retirement. Prog rock isn’t exempt from that potentially worrying atrophy, but fortunately there’s an ongoing resurgence led by younger artists who are providing a necessary reinvigoration to the scene. Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks is one example of an established artist working with unknown, but extremely capable, musicians, and Neal Morse’s new recording, collaborating with a team billed as The Resonance, has also adopted a similarly ambitious approach. Morse is renowned for possessing a level of creativity that dwarfs other…

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