Egdon Heath to release “Spring The Past Alive” thirty years after “Nebula”

Progressive Rock

Cover of “Spring The Past Alive”, by Egdon Heath: an old reel-to-reel tape recorder on a wooden table, with a bunch of wildflowers growing out of it

Egdon Heath, the Dutch progressive rock band formed in Leeuwarden in 1981, will release “Spring The Past Alive” on 11 December, thirty years after “Nebula” (1996). The group made their debut in 1987 with “In The City” and disbanded in 1999. The album can already be pre-ordered from the Dutch Music Works store, and the band has unveiled an official video for “The Mystic Monkey”.

The return is led by Jaap Mulder (piano, synthesizers and vocals) and Aldo Adema (guitar and bass), who got back together in 2023 and combined unreleased material with new compositions by Mulder. Erik Koning (drums and backing vocals) and Marcel Copini, who plays bass on five tracks, complete the line-up.

Mulder composed the music, and the lyrics are by him and Koning. Mulder and Adema arranged and produced it; Adema also recorded and mixed it and made the cover art. Han Uil mastered it, and the photographs are by Sander Weisbeek.

Text by Guillem Cardós