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07/05/08 Hi there everyone. Just wanted to let you all know that we have been absolutely knocked out by the level of response we have had to Shooting Albatross! Abolutely incredible. Thank you so much to everyone that has bought a CD from the site. We know that sales have been going very well too for the many other online Prog retailers that are selling our CD but of course the profits from every CD sold via our site go straight back into the Ganz war chest so we are especially pleased that it has been going so well. To this end - we have decided to keep our offer of free postage to anywhere in the world and the offer to sign your CD too [if you wish] open for another month at least. What else is there to tell you? Well, look out for a whole bunch more photos from the CD launch gig which will be on our gallery page very soon. As well as this, we hope to also have some additional items available from the Shop page very soon too.
Abel Ganz needs your help!!! Yes - although things have been going very well for us over the last month or so we would like to enlist your help. We have been slightly surprised that, as yet, we have not really seen many reviews for Shooting Albatross. We would like to ask you all that should you come across a review on the web or anywhere else you let us know - send us a link. Better still, why not write one yourself and leave it somewhere where it may be seen by likeminded Prog fans who might not be aware of us. In this way, you could be helping Abel Ganz enormously by helping to re-raise awareness of the band. Abel Ganz has been off the scene on hiatus for quite some years and now it's time to let as many people as possible know that we are back!
If you felt you might like to write a review of Shooting Albatross (or any of the other Ganz back catalogue) one of the places you can post it is here:
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18238
I'm sure there are many other places and, of course, the more the better! Remember - if you come across a review anywhere please let us know.
Hello and welcome back to the newly designed Abel Ganz website. Much has happened since the site went offline but at last we are back up again with a new look reflecting the artwork of "Shooting Albatross".
If you have been following us on MySpace then you will know the long awaited album is finally finished and hits the streets at the end of April on our very own Abel Records label. However – you don’t need to wait that long: it’s available right here, right now! Get yourself over to our Shop page to grab your copy. To celebrate this momentous occasion, for the entire month of April we are offering the CD with free postage to anywhere in the world! As well as this, we will also (if you so wish) all sign your copy before sending it to you– just let us know if you want us to do this by adding a note when paying. And, if all that was not enough we have also decided to give you a track from the CD absolutely free and available to download from this website only – see if you can find it!
Recording Shooting Albatross has been a long slog and must surely be in the running for the title of "longest album in the making" ranking alongside The Blue Nile for the slowest band in history! Must be something in the air in Glasgow! But now at last, from a collection of songs/ideas we'd had kicking around ages ago, we have moved forward to the finished album with a great six piece line up. Stuart "Mick" MacFarlane signed up on lead vocals and additional guitars to join Davie, Denis, Stevie, Hew and Hugh to complete the jigsaw in 
the autumn. By way of an introduction Mick re-recorded vocals on one track but we left Hugh's original vocals on the others and of course Alan Reed's superb vocals on Hew's epic track "So Far".
Thursday 27th March saw the official launch party at Stereo, Renfield Lane in our home town Glasgow, where we played the album in its entirety plus a couple of old favorites. It was the first time we played "So Far" live and we were joined on stage by Stevie Lawrence and Fiona Cuthill from the folk band Rallion who both played on the recorded track. Stevie and Fiona will also played a cracking short support slot.
So what’s next…well our other big news which we are all absolutely buzzing about is our invitation to play at The Summers End Festival in Lydney, Gloucestershire. The three day festival over the weekend 26th-28th September features the cream of Prog bands and we are honoured to be sharing the stage on Sunday 28th just below The Tangent and Frost#. We are hoping to be down for the full weekend to soak up the atmosphere. Should be fantastic so do everything within your power to get there!
In the meantime we hope to play some selected dates between now and then. Stevie D is working away furiously to get the redesigned website fully on line as soon as possible and we are hatching plans for a new limited edition 20th anniversary re-release of The Dangers of Strangers on our newly formed Abel Records.
