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CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW

February 13, 2009

Aethellis at St. James, Parkton MD

See the Live page for details. 

Aethellis has the soaring majesty of classic symphonic rock and incorporates a contemporary rhythmic feel. 

The Aethellis album was spearheaded and recorded in 2002/2003 by classically trained keyboardist/vocalist/hack guitarist/Narcissist Ellsworth Hall and has many influences including rock, classical, synth pop, funk, jazz and even hip-hop. This either represents wide tastes or an inability to focus. 

He puts this genre wanderlust to good use in his soundtrack work with Ellsounds. Album tracks, other originals and classic rock/progressive rock covers are performed live with several cohorts from previous bands including Mark Van Natta and Erik Marks.

Aethellis, the band logo

"...Symphonic Rock that transmits an optimism beyond the common..." - Descubre La Caja Pandora

"AETHELLIS' music is more like a cross between Tony BANKS, 
Alan PARSONS and Rick WAKEMAN" -
Lise (Hibou), The Prog Archives
"Aethellis is a mix of all the best things available in the prog world."- Radio Metal logo

NEWS UPDATE 2/1/10

New Aethellis interview at Music Street Journal

Music Street Journal review of the Aethellis album

Sales of Aethellis CDs and downloads at CD BABY to help Haiti

$1 of our cut from every CD sale through the CD Baby website, and $1 from every download sale over $8.99 on the CD Baby site goes to the American Red Cross and to Mercy Corps, a Portland-based relief organization with a large presence in Haiti.


Aethellis performances

The band returns to St. James in Parkton MD for several gigs starting in February 2010.

Aethellis played its eclectic mix of Classic Rock, dance, prog and funk at St. James in Parkton MD on September 12th. The amazing, versatile and quite modest Chris Marks (guitar/vocals) took a break from performing with the 2nd Sole Band to return once again to the Aethellis fold.

For more details, see the Live page.

A special concert is in the planning stages for 2010 which will be videotaped in its entirety for a DVD release and the Tchessi Channel (online video). Let the arguments over the songlist order ensue! 

More details and performance photos are posted at the Live page.
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Recording for the new album, Northumbria 

Drum tracks are currently being put down for the album's title track, "Northumbria." A sample of this song should be available online in February.

Recording is ongoing and will feature Dyan Brown (see blog) on vocals along with Mark Van Natta on guitar and vocals. Ellsworth will again be doing the keyboards, vocals, and guitar. Bassist Erik Marks is also scheduled to appear on some tracks, particularly one of them he co-wrote. That would be only fair, eh? Completion is tentatively set for Spring 2010 if Ellsworth gets off his duff.

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Ellsworth's Polysix Tips and Tricks is back for classic analog synth fans.


The video version of the song "Hubris" differs somewhat from the album version, features Frances Swarthington, footage shot by Cheryl Hall and quirky band members attempting to synch to the music. The song remained in the Broadjam.com  Progressive Rock Top 10 chart for 6 months, debuting at #1 on March 23, 2003. It also appeared in the Rock (#7), Maryland (#1) and Mid-Atlantic (#5) Top 10 charts.  The new "Saint Augustus" video is due out in 2010.



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Note: "Exchequer Prague" is a preview from the upcoming second album.

"The album is the rare stone overturned that reveals a bounty of new revelations." - The Music Street Journal

"The result of this debut was one magnificent work of symphonic rock that transmits an optimism beyond the common.....Very recommended and essential in your progressive library." - Descubre La Caja Pandora


The CD is available at such fine online CD stores as

DigStation - Indie Music Downloads
Also available at iTunes, eMusic, Great Indie Music, PayPlay 
and other fine download stores

The Aethellis album was listed from June '03 through March '04 in the Best Bands of the Week : "Indispensable work, highly recommendable..." - Progressive Rock and Progressive Metal E-Zine

"8.6 / 10" -  Power Play Records

"The songs are very strong, catchy and still adventurous enough to keep you interested from start to finish." - Strutter Magazine

"...these melodies are sometimes more easy listening, sometimes more twisted but they always have an interesting progressive sound..."
- Music Extreme

Read more album reviews here.

Aethellis is -

On CD:     Ellsworth Hall - keyboards, vocals, guitar, digi-drums, custom acoustic drum loops

Live:  Mark Van Natta - guitar, vocals     Ellsworth Hall - keyboards, vocals     Erik Marks - bass, vocals

Chris Marks - guitar, vocals    Mike Harrington - drums

Aethellis is published by  Ellsounds / Ellsworth R. Hall

Website contents © 2003 - 2009 Ellsworth R. Hall / Ellsounds

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