Fortunate Observer Of Time by Frogg Cafe

At this point, the band changed its name to Frogg Café and started to perform original music with a host of discernable influences in their sound such as Zappa, Yes, Gentle Giant, Ian Anderson, Genesis, and even the more avant garde styles of composers such as Stravinsky, Ravel, Mingus, Coltrane, Ives, and Copland, just to name a few.

Within their music, Frogg Café deftly blends elements from many sources such as progressive rock, jazz, and even modern chamber music into a cohesive whole. They pull off dazzling intricate written passages one minute, and then take off into spacey improvs the next with a seamless integration. Frogg Café follows their artistic impulses whilst maintaining an incredible amount of musical integrity. With a beautiful blending of vocal harmonies, colorful textures, unparalleled lyricism and melodicism, uncharted and challenging improvisation with both heavy and whimsical musical styles and grooves, the music of Frogg Café is beyond description of words - it must be experienced first hand.

"Enjoying the success of their self-titled debut Frogg Cafe and the 2003 release Creatures, Frogg Cafe is proud to announce the release of their third studio album, Fortunate Observer of Time, through ProgRock Records, on June 21, 2005. In addition to extensively touring popular clubs in the Northeast, in 2004 Frogg Café performed at The Rites of Spring Festival (PA), NewEars Series (MA), NJProghouse (NJ) and a European tour of Germany, Austria, and Belgium. They have also been invited to perform at NEARFEST (Northeast Art Rock Festival) at Lehigh University's Zoellner Arts Center, the biggest American progressive rock festival in the country, in early July.

Frogg Café has performed with major rock acts Caravan, Happy the Man, Proto-Kaw featuring Kerry Livgren of Kansas, The Flower Kings, The Grandmothers of Invention, and the legendary percussionist Ed Mann sat in at the Zappanale Festival in Germany. They have received major accolades from distinguished rock websites and magazines such as The Giant Progweed, The Axiom of Choice, Progression Magazine, Io Pages and legendary figure of progressive music Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull."

Contact: Andrew Sussman

contact@froggcafe.com

www.froggcafe.com

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