S-ROCK - DON'T MISS IT!

Another good new comer from Sweden: GRAND ILLUSION. Their
album called "THE BOOK OF HOW TO MAKE IT" is now on sale
(on March 23rd, 2001) from MARQUEE/Avalon in Japan and will
be out on April 7th, 2001 from ESCAPE MUSIC in Europe. The
Japanese edition includes a bonus track called "The Hardest Part".
You can listen to a part of their songs here.

GRAND ILLUSION originates from the band: PROMOTION. We
have played together since 1986, sometimes with a horn section
and sometimes without. Through a lot of years the band played
music that we ourselves liked to play, both own songs and covers
songs. We did shows in the southern of Sweden mostly just for
fun. But it wasn't until Anders Rydholm built a music studio in 1995
that we started to record our own material. Our first record "NOT
FOR SALE" is compilation of mostly old material that we wanted
to document. It was done with a very low budget and over a long
period of time and the aim wasn't so high. We released our first
record "NOT FOR SALE" under the name "PROMOTION" and
through Anders company, GodisPaScen. We came in touch with
Georg Siegl, a German web record dealer, and with his help the
ball started to roll. Great reviews in both websites and music
magazines made us believe that there was market for a band like
ours. It also gave inspiration to do a fresh new album with better
songs, higher quality and with a more professional attitude. "YEAH,
YEAH" is also released under the same circumstances and Georg
Siegl helped us once again. The budget is still low but all the
positive response from our first record made it easy. Even better
reviews on this record and a lot of really nice feedback from
listeners all over the world. You could check out a lot of the
reviews from both our albums at our home site:
http://www.godispascen.se/promotion/
Record number 3 are much heavier than the 2first records. It's
more pure AOR. In May 2000 we also got signed to Escape Music.
Then we started to talk about changing the band name. After four
months of dwelling and thinking we finally agreed on "GRAND
ILLUSION". GRAND ILLUSION is a 5 piece band but it's focused
on 3 people. Anders, who writes the music, arranges and plays a
ot of the instruments. Ola Karlsson writes all our lyrics. Peter
Sundell is the lead singer and has a pretty unique voice. Nowadays
we seldom play live since the opportunities for this kind of music
is very low in Sweden unless you play techno, hip-hop or death
metal. We don't but all the guys wants to tour again so if there
were possibility of doing some live gigs again we would be certainly
be interested. Members: Peter Sundell Vocals, Per Svensson
Vocals, Anders Rydholm Keyboards, Bass and Guitar, Christian
Sundell Drums and Ola Karlsson Guitar.

Anders Rydholm (Key, B & G for GRAND ILLUSION)

If you're really looking for good melodic HR materials, you should
definitely check this band!!!

(Discography)

ORDINARY JUST WON'T DO (ESCAPE MUSIC, 2004)
VIEW FROM THE TOP (ESCAPE MUSIC, 2002)
THE BOOK OF HOW TO MAKE IT (ESCAPE MUSIC, 2001)
IN THE BEGINNING (ESCAPE MUSIC, 2001)

The Official Website : http://www.godispascen.se/gi/