Avalon Records is proud to present an ‘unexpected’ new album by Galahad off shoot project the ‘Galahad Electric Company’.

During these strange ‘Covid’ times in which we have found ourselves over the last few months it appears that Dean Baker and Stu Nicholson have tapped in to a rich vein of creativity resulting in a substantial collection of new music and songs. Therefore, the time seemed right to re-activate the ’Galahad Electric Company’ for the first time in over 20 years resulting in a brand new album ‘When The Battle Is Over’.

Most of the album was written between the middle of May and the end of June 2020 and is split in to two distinct sections, the first part being ‘Suite 2020’ a self-explanatory and somewhat ironic title which consists of five linked tracks. The second half of the album consist of five separate tracks, somewhat diverse in nature.

Also, due to more constraints than normal as far as the recording process was concerned a certain amount of experimentation was involved with some of the songs, a few of which were ad-libbed and written in an almost ‘stream of consciousness’ manner!

Stu remarked “This is the first album we have ever recorded whereby neither of us have actually been in the same building at the same time at any point! The actual main writing and recording process only took about five weeks in May and June which is very quick for us! In fact, it was a very easy, fun and quick album to write and record which should, in theory, always be the case but quite often isn’t. “

The end result is an eclectic mixture of music and songs, examples of which are an adaptation of a poem by the famous 19th Century Dorset dialect poet and friend of Thomas Hardy, William Barnes (My Orcha’d in Linden Lea) and even Stu’s cat Sammy Gorgeous contributes ‘meows’ to ‘Mysterioso'! There are also nods to dance, folk, ambient, krautrock and even opera and gospel influences, all scattered throughout.

'When The Battle Is Over' is now available to pre-order from our official web site merchandise page. Although  the album will be officially released on Monday 5th October and be available on CD  from the official Galahad website as well as from the Galahad Bandcamp site where it can also be downloaded/streamed. It will also be available to purchase from all the usual on line platforms.

In the meantime, the album will be preceded by an EP, ‘Open Water’ which will also feature a new version of an old Galahad classic from the mid 1980s ’Through The Looking Glass’ which has been re-worked and re-recorded by Stu and Dean as well a 'laid bare' version of the 'Open Water'.

The single will be available to download/stream from Monday 14th September from the official Galahad Bandcamp site as well as from Apple Music, Amazon etc. A video to accompany ‘Open Water’ will also be available to watch online.

Track listing:

Part A: Suite 2020

1. Restoration (Intro)

2. When the Battle is Over

3. Be Careful…

4. All that Binds Us

5. The Inquisition (Intermezzo)

Part B:

6. Letting Go

7. Mysterioso

8. 1976

9. My Orcha’d in Linden Lea

10. Open Water

We are extremely pleased to announce a very comprehensive re-release of our 1998 ‘Following Ghosts’ album. This new expansive release brings together all of the ‘Following Ghosts’ related material and consists of a three CD package containing a totally brand new 2019 re-mix of the original ‘Following Ghosts’ album by Karl Groom, using tracks taken from the original master tapes which we managed to digitise on to one 64GB pen drive from the 6 original large and extremely heavy two inch tape reels!

CD2 ‘Alternative Ghosts’ contains new alternative versions of every track from the original album, again engineered, mixed and mastered by Karl Groom and featuring Mark Spencer on Bass on a Galahad album for the first time along with Lee on most of the guitars with a few contributions from Karl Groom and Roy Keyworth.

CD3 is a re-mastered version of the rather experimental ‘De-Constructing Ghosts’ album which was originally a separate companion release to the main album, under the name of the ‘Galahad Electric Company,’ back in 1999. This CD contains tracks written and arranged by various other musicians, DJs and re-mixers pieced together from the original Galahad multi-tracks resulting in completely different songs in most cases!

In many ways this was a comeback album, a fresh start after the difficult trials of the previous ‘Sleepers’ album which is also being re-released on vinyl LP for the first time. An album which seemed to polarise opinion at the time within Prog circles, mainly because of its diverse and, ironically, truly progressive nature. Twenty-two years later, we think it actually still sounds pretty fresh and perhaps will be assessed in a positive way in today’s more accepting musical climate as far so called ‘Progressive Rock’ is concerned.

This package includes new artwork, photos and notes by various band members and others who were involved at the time. The first 500 CDs will also contain a copy of the original CD booklet and a signed original CD tray inlay.

'Following Ghosts -Expanded Edition' will be available to pre-order on CD from Monday 3rd August from our merchandise page and will be released officially on Monday 7th September. Orders will also be despatched during the week beginning 7th September.

A download/streaming version will also be available from our official Galahad Bandcamp site from Monday 7th September2020.

The 2019 re-mixed version of the original album will also be available as a double LP on Gold coloured vinyl at some point in the near future, more details to follow once finalised.

We are very pleased and proud to announce the release of our 1995 album 'Sleepers' on vinyl LP for the first time, 25 years after its initial release, in conjunction with Witek Andree and our good friends at Oskar Productions in Poland and which is now available to pre-order from the merchandise page.

This edition is available either on standard black vinyl or on white vinyl which looks rather lovely even if we do say so ourselves. ;-)

It also contains three extra tracks 'Suffering in Silence', 'Pictures of Bliss' (alternative version) and 'Exorcising Demons' (2015 version) all available on LP for the first time ever.

Every order made directly from Galahad will also include a free Galahad '30' CD EP.

Orders will be shipped from Monday 1st June 2020.

We are very pleased to announced that we will be playing a few live shows towards the end of this year and in early 2021.

Sunday 6th September 2020 - The 1865, Southampton, England  (LOOKS UNLIKELY DUE TO COVID 19 CONCERNS BUT WILL CONFIRM ASAP)

Sunday 27th September 2020 - 'Indian Summer Festival', Poznan, Poland (also featuring IQ, Mostly Autumn, Uli John Roth, Anekdoten, Tiger Moth Tales, Collage amongst others) -  CANCELLED DUE TO COVID 19 CONCERNS

Saturday 6th March 2021 - Fusion Festival, The Civic Theatre, Stourport, England - FINGERS CROSSED!!

Hope to see you there! :-)

Here is some new and exciting Galahad related news: Our guitarist Lee is very proud to announce the imminent release of his new single song 'concept' album entitled 'Comatose'. The album will be released through F2 Music and also features, among others, Diane his wife and Mark Spencer from Galahad  on backing vocals.

The album can now be pre-ordered from here: Lee Abraham - Comatose

See press release below for more details:

Galahad guitarist and solo artist Lee Abraham will release his latest solo album, entitled “Comatose”, on Friday 27 September 2019 through F2 Records. 

Inspired by his return to Galahad in 2017 and his subsequent contributions to the band’s single-song concept album “Seas of Change”, Lee has written and produced his own single-song concept album. Clocking in at around 47mins Comatose tells the story of a car crash victim who experiences flash backs while medical staff try to save his life. A deep and complex work that takes in a number of musical styles but all the while retaining the overall progressive rock sound. 

Lee is joined once again by long-time musical partner Gerald Mulligan (Credo) on drums, Rob Arnold on piano, lead vocal excellence from Marc Atkinson (Riversea, Moon Halo) and backing vocals from Diane Abraham and Galahad colleague Mark Spencer. Artwork is once again co-ordinated by Robin Armstrong. Lee handles all guitars, all keyboards and for the first time since 2009’s “Black and White”, Lee has also recorded all the bass guitar too. 

 In the past, having previously explored long songs (2016’s “The Seasons Turn”), shorter, more commercial AOR inspired songs (2017’s “Colours”) and concept albums (2004’s “View from the Bridge”), this new single-song album is new territory for Lee. “I wanted to try something different again for the next album rather than just repeat previous work. I hope I have done that successfully and listeners enjoy the ride…… all 47 minutes of it!” 

We thought it was about time we updated our news page as we have been a bit quiet lately. The good news, however, is that we have been working on a very special 3CD re-issue project which is now nearing completion. More details to follow in due course.

Also, work is progressing well on new material which will form the basis of our next studio album. We will be going in Thin Ice in September to record drums on all the completed tracks, so more exciting times ahead. Hopefully, the as yet untitled new album will be released in 2020 which also happens to be our 35th anniversary year, thus a few shows will hopefully be planned too!

In the meantime we'd like to wish everyone a fun filled, happy and peaceful Summer. :-)

Just a reminder that in a few weeks we will be venturing back up to Scotland to play at the Backstage venue at the Green Hotel in Kinross on Saturday 16th March, which we are very much looking forward to. It will be one of only a few shows in 2019 and will also be one of the last occasions at which we will perform 'Seas of Change' in it's (almost) entirety, an album which has been received far better that we could have hoped for and one which still resonates as much now, if not more so than it did when it was first released almost exactly a year ago. 

It would be lovely to see as many of our 'Northern' fraternity as possible as it is so rare that we get a chance perform in that particular neck of the woods as it were. :-)

Here is a link to the venue: Backstage at the Green Hotel, Kinross

Well, what a year it has been, a total blast.

On behalf of Galahad, I would just like to say a very big thank you to everyone who has supported Galahad this year, very very much appreciated.  
I feel that we have come back stronger than at any time in the last few years both on and off stage as it were.  

We've had some great adventures in 2018 and a big thanks too to all those who came along, supported and showed their warmth towards us.  

In 2019 we have a couple of planned projects which we will elaborate on in due course. We also hope to write and record our next album for which we have numerous completed 'demo' tracks, the hardest job will be choosing which songs to include as there over two dozen ideas floating about!

We have only one confirmed show in 2019 and are happy to announce that we will be venturing back up to Scotland on Saturday 16th March to play at the Backstage venue at the Green Hotel in Kinross which is a lovely little venue which we are really looking forward to playing. After the fun we had at the Drygate in Glasgow in December we'd love to see a few of our Scottish fans at 'Backstage' in Kinross. Here is a link to the venue site etc. : https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/galahad-backstage-at-the-green-hotel-tickets/8898265

We may play a few other shows in 2019 but our main focus will be writing and recording new material plus a couple of other special projects.

Finally, we'd just like to wish everyone a happy, successful and peaceful 2019. :-)

Avalon Records in conjunction with Oskar Productions is very pleased and proud to announce the release of ‘Constellations’ the first ever solo album from Dean Baker who also happens to be the main writer and arranger for the established UK ‘Prog’ band Galahad.

You could say that ‘Constellations’ is an accidental album borne out of personal tragedy. Dean’s good friend Ray succumbed to Cancer in 2018 and Dean subsequently inherited a rather large CD collection and began listening to some of the gems contained within what was, in fact, more of a music library, including albums by iconic keyboard visionaries such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Vangelis and Tangerine Dream to name but a few.

After listening to and re-acquainting himself with music by the above artists Dean was massively inspired to write some music in a similar vein over the course of the Summer of 2018 and before he knew it he had over twenty new tracks to work on! These were then distilled and whittled down to the ten tracks which appear on the final version of this album.

Dean also called upon a few fellow cohorts to contribute including Lee Abraham and Stu from Galahad on guitars and vocals respectively as well Anastasia Coburg from Coburg on vocals. You could say that the resulting album is paying homage to some of the pioneering synthesizer artists of the 1970s but it is also still very much a Dean Baker vision incorporating modern production values and Dean’s very own musical slant on modern electronic music.

‘Constellations’ is dedicated to music lover Ray Chiles (1959 -2018)

Track listing:

1. Le Chat Qui Pêche (9.14)

2. Off the Shoulder of Orion (4.35)

3. Here and Now (4.40) (Vocals - Stu Nicholson)

4. Modular Seasons (3.51)

5. Clouded Hills (5.56)

6. New Horizons (5.41) (Vocals - Anastasia Coburg)

7. Nuda Veritas (4.09) (Vocals - Stu Nicholson)

8. Engelbrecht (3.37) (Guitar - Lee Abraham)

9. Constellations (4.24) (Vocals - Stu Nicholson)

10. Impression No.8 (9.01)

‘Constellations’ will be available to download from  Dean's Bandcamp page from 29th October 2018. CD'S will also be able to be pre-ordered from the official Galahad website merchandise page from 29th October 2018. Shipping date is still to be confirmed but will begin some time in November 2018.