We have finished our new album. It is called "Number Seven". It is our
seventh album. It is not the concluding chapter in our trilogy (begun
with "The Great Leap" and "Doomsday Afternoon"). Instead, this is an
album that developed out of rehearsals and concerts leading up to our
performance last year at Festival Crescendo in France.

For this album, we have stayed within the ranks of Phideaux. There are
no guest stars and all music is generated by the live band. The music
is complex, twiddly, murky, depressing, mysterious, jazzy and sometimes
just a little bit goth. Right now we are mixing the album, hoping it
will find its release before the end of the year.

Stylistically, this album fits more with "Doomsday Afternoon" and
"Chupacabras" in our canon. It is a keyboard heavy album. We are
indexing it with 18 titles, but that is misleading because there are
really only 9 songs. This will allow you to access particular sections
of the somewhat lengthy pieces.

The names of the songs:

1. Dormouse - a theme 1:05
2. Waiting For The Axe To Fall 19:20
3. Darkness At Noon 4:00
4. Gift Of The Flame 6:00
5. Thermonuclear Cheese 2:30
6. The Search For Terrestrial Life 8:30
7. Love Theme from "Number Seven" 14:20
8. Infinite Supply 5:05
9. Dormouse - an end 2:00


As promised, no animals (surf or turf) were harmed in this production.
And the best news of all is that this album contains no 20 minute epics
(we stopped at 19). Let us all hope and prey that this album can be
mixed and mastered before the end of 2008. We don't want to break our
run of an album every year!

Also, be sure to book your tickets for 3 Rivers Progressive Rock
Festival in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in August 2009 for we will be performing
there.