Riverside Band Release New Single and Music Video, “Self Aware”
Riverside Band, a progressive rock unit from Polish/Polandia, will soon be releasing their new album entitled ID.Entity on January 20, 2023. Along with the announcement of the new album, Riverside also released a new single that will be included in the album, Self-Aware.
The progressive rock members removed the edited version of the single, leaving it three minutes shorter than the unedited version. The results have been extraordinary. This song tells about social changes that have occurred recently.
“Self-Aware is a song that sums up the whole album, and talks about how hard it is these days to live in society and ignore all social changes, about how you can’t just be passive, ‘turn off yourselves,’ or ‘hide deep inside. in the woods,'” said Riverside frontman Mariusz Duda.
“We need each other to change something in our lives. Not everything can be done alone. ‘I have to be better than others, I have to be the best’ is not a good mantra,” he continued.
“We need cooperation to achieve something, and most importantly that this message does not come from solo artists, but from bands, whose success lies largely in working together within the band and interacting with their listeners,” continued Mariusz Duda.
Their latest album, ID.Entity, is the unit’s eighth studio album to be recorded and mixed at two studios, namely The Boogie Town Studio in Otwock with Paweł Marciniak and at Studio Serakos in Warsaw with Magda and Robert Srzedniccy. The album was released via InsideOutMusic, a longtime international partner of Riverside.
The mastering process was done by Robert Szydło and produced by Mariusz Duda himself. The ID.Entity album artwork was created by Polish artist, Jarek Kubicki.
Riverside ID.Entity Album Tracklist
- Friend or Foe?
- Landmine Blast
- Big Tech Brothers
- Post-Truth
- The Place Where I Belong
- I’m Done With You
- Self-Aware
Bonus material appearing on Riverside’s new album includes the instrumental tracks Age of Anger and Together Again, as well as Friends or Foe? (Single Edit) and Self-Aware (Single Edit). The last two tracks mentioned have a slightly shorter duration.
Meanwhile, the first single for Riverside’s ID.Entity album was recently released with the song I’m Done With You in October 2022. The single was also released along with visual material in the form of an animated music video directed by Thomas Hicks. Check out the music video for I’m Done With You from Riverside.
Meanwhile, Mariusz Duda commented on the single I’m Done With You. He said, “We live in a time of anger and helplessness. In times dominated by big technology, populists, conspiracy theories, hate, greedy corporations causing the planet and human nature to die at an accelerated pace.”
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He continued, “We live in a time when one country can attack another country suddenly just because they think they deserve something more. These days it’s so hard to sing just about love, friendship, and escapism in an imaginary world. I’m Done With You is all about anger and frustration!”
Riverside band is a progressive rock band from Warsaw, Poland. They were founded in 2001 by friends Mariusz Duda, Piotr Grudziński, Piotr Kozieradzki, and Jacek Melnicki, who shared a passion for progressive rock and heavy metal.
Frontman and vocalist Mariusz Duda is the band’s main lyricist and composer. Initially, he was a fan of electronic, ambient, and experimental music from a number of bands such as Radiohead, Massive Attack, Dead Can Dance, Tangerine Dream, and Peter Gabriel. And then he became a fan of prog rock like Pink Floyd, Rush, Marillion, and thrash metal. Riverside can be described as a blend of atmospheric rock and metal elements, producing a sound similar to Porcupine Tree, Pain of Salvation, and Dream Theater.
Throughout their musical career, Riverside band has released at least seven studio albums, including Out of Myself (2003), Second Life Syndrome (2005), Rapid Eye Movement (2007), Anno Domini High Definition (2009), Shrine of New Generation Slaves (2013), Love, Fear and the Time Machine (2015), and Wasteland (2018). Their latest album, ID.Entity, will be released on January 20, 2023.
