Holidays in Eden

Occupation

• Steve Hogarth - vocals
• Steve Rothery - Guitar
• Mark Kelly - Keyboards
• Pete Trewavas - Bass
• Ian Mosley - drums

Holidays in Eden (English for " Holidays in Eden " ) is the sixth studio album by the British progressive rock band Marillion. It was released in June 1991. In the U.S., a new version of the album was released half a year later, which includes not only a different track order, but also the two new title A Collection and How Can It Hurt. Between 1997 and 1999, EMI released incurred under their label Marillion albums as a 24- bit digital remaster 2 disc version. The album was released as a 180g vinyl pressing in May 2012 again.

Formation

After the Seasons End tour in the summer of 1990 the band worked for 6 months in the Stanbridge Farm Studios near Brighton on new songs. From the previous album, no material was left, it had to be started from scratch. So it was also for the recycling of Dry Land, a song of the old band by Steve Hogarth " How we live". The plan was actually the renewed collaboration with producer Chris Kimsey, who was already involved in Clutching at Straws, which was, however, bound by the Rolling Stones. EMI was then on Chris Neil, a pop- producers (eg for Celine Dion and Sheena Easton ), who promised not to turn into Marillion Mike & the Mechanics. In the Nomis Studios in London, the songs were further developed and finally taken up in the Outside Studios, Hook End Manor. Mark Kelly remembers this: " We have recorded and mixed in 10 weeks - which is perhaps long for the Spice Girls but not long enough for us!". The result is the poppigste all Marillion albums that you can still bring in conjunction with progressive rock only because of the title Splintering Heart.

Title list

Original version

U.S. version

Title List of Bonus CD

Singles

The first single 1991 Cover My Eyes ( Pain and Heaven) was released with the How Can It Hurt B-side in May, which reached the 34th place of the UK singles charts. The second single, No One Can, published in July 1991 with the B- side A Collection, reached number 26 in the UK charts. The third single Dry Land with the B-side Holloway Girl ( live) was published in September 1991 and reached number 34 in the UK charts.

Reception

The reviewers from the ranks of progressive rock panned the album almost complete, only Splintering Heart was able to convince at the Proggern.

" Everything is so beautifully ironed out, as there are no rough edges, no more surprising ideas, everything is predictable. "

"It's not a bad pop album, but from progressive vision remain many unanswered questions."

" It sounds as if Marillion wanted to reinvent than U2. "

" Nice to see where the journey to Seasons End is going. "