Album: Save Us
Artist: Mark Trueack and Friends
2025 Progrock.com Essentials
CD: PRE-0018

Performed by
Mark "Truey" Trueack: lead vocals (all), harmonies (5)
Christophe Lebled: keys (1, 5), melodic and percussive sequences (1, 5)
Steve Unruh: violins (1, 2, 4, 5), backing vocals (1, 4), flute (3, 4), percussion (4), guitar (5)
Michelle Young: lead backing vocals (1)
Dave Buchholz: piano (2)
John Greenwood: electric & classical guitars (2)
Nate Miller: erhu (2)
Marc Papeghin: French horn (2)
Don Schiff: NS/Stick (2, 4), freltess NS/Stick (5)
Chester Thompson: drum kit (2, 5)
Dave Kerzner: keys (3)
Fernando Perdomo: nylon-string guitar (3), bass (3), harp (3)
Joanna St Clare: backing vocals and harmonies (3), lead backing vocals (5)
Stephen Layton: guitar (4) , keys (4)
Jamison Smeltz: soprano, alto, tenor & bari saxes (4)
Patrick Moraz: keys (5)
The Maew Pao Café Choir, including Supattra Anontri, Nippon Sanboon, WuKam, Suphalak Jaib, Aoi Chanchayapop, Kris Sookhnoom, Bualai Sriburin: (1, 5)


Produced by Trueack
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Unruh
Artwork and graphic layout by Ed Unitsky


Tracks:
1. "Show Me How (soul version)" [Lebled/Trueack] (6:24)
2. "What We've Done" [Buchholz] (9:08)
3. "So Fragile" [Layton/Trueack, arr. by Kerzner/Perdomo] (4:21)
4. "Reality (soul version)" [Layton/Trueack] (7:05)
5. "Save Us" [Moraz/Trueack; orchestral arrangements by Lebled] (7:12)

Lyrics by Trueack (1, 3-5)
Orchestral arrangement by Buchholz (2)


Notes: Save Us is an EP out 1 Feb 2025, on CD and limited edition (300 copies) vinyl, from Mark "Truey" Trueack of Unitopia and United Progressive Fraternity. Trueack was at ProgStock in Oct 2023 when his café restaurant in Thailand was hit by major flooding. In response, he wrote the title track, developed with Patrick Moraz and Christophe Lebled (who has worked with Jon Anderson). Also appearing on the EP are Dave Kerzner (Arc of Life, worked with Jon Anderson), Fernando Perdomo (The Fusion Syndicate, In Continuum, The New Empire, worked with Rick Wakeman) and Stephen Layton (worked with Jon Anderson). The EP's proceeds go to help repair and buy new equipment for the cafe. (HP, 27 Jan 25)
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