Kindred Spirits - available here
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See Barry Kitson's artwork here

'Kindred Spirits' is our first live album since 'The Cropredy Set' in 1998. We launched the studio album, Spirit, in 2010 and filmed the show for the 'Kindred Spirits' DVD, along with a couple of tracks from our set at the Loreley Festival in Germany the same year.

The 'Kindred Spirits' CD is a compilation of live tunes from 2007/8 and covers a lot of older material that we didn't get to play at the Spirit launch.

As usual, Loz Jackson has worked with Andy to mix the sound along with video editing the Loreley footage. Loz mixes Solstice live too and is virtually a member of the band these days.

A month or so before Kindred Spirits was due to be pressed Andy got an email from someone saying how much they were enjoying their recently purchased copy of Spirit. That someone turned out to be veteran Marvel artist and prog fan, Barry Kitson. The result of this moment of synchronicity is the brilliant art that runs through the album. Barry is a phenomenal artist and lovely bloke - we are greatly indebted to him. Pete and Rob have been in a state of rapture ever since! Take a look at how Barry developed the images here.

Another discovery that preceded the release of Kindred Spirits was the discovery that Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree/ Blackfield is a Solstice fan. Steven very kindly agreed to contribute to the sleeve notes and his 'chat' with Festival Music's David Robinson fills a couple of pages of the booklet.