Alphaville goes symphonic in September

Veteran synth pop group Alphaville is set to release a new symphonic double album; ETERNALLY YOURS on September 23 in North America via BFD (Bob Frank Distribution). Alphaville band founder Marian Gold partnered with film and television arrangers Max Knoth and Christian Lohr and the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg for re-imagined orchestral versions of classic hits from the band’s forty-year career such as “Forever Young” and “Big In Japan,” as well as one brand new song, title track “Eternally Yours."

Of the new project, Alphaville’s Marian Gold said, “ETERNALLY YOURS actually sounds to my ears as if were really the first Alphaville album – only that it wasn’t released forty years ago. We just didn’t have an orchestra at hand back then, but only synthesizers and rhythm machines.”

ETERNALLY YOURS will be available as a double-CD and a double black vinyl, as well as digitally. A gold double-vinyl will also be available on November 4. Click here to pre-order the album; click here to access the album cover art and see below for the track listing.

In advance of the release of ETERNALLY YOURS is the theatrical new version of the track, “Sounds Like A Melody,” taken from the project. The original version of the song was a Top 10 smash throughout Europe, the follow-up to the band’s debut hit single, “Big In Japan”. Click here to check it out.

Of his vocals, Gold explained, “When I do interpretations of songs from way back in the history of Alphaville, my voice already knows them. My singing results from a subconscious interaction, independent of any constraints or purposes of the mind. That is probably the main reason that the past four decades did not leave a significant trace on my vocal performance.”

Formed in Germany in 1983 by vocalist/lyricist Marian Gold and keyboardist Bernhard Lloyd, Alphaville topped the charts globally with such massive hits as “Big In Japan” and “Forever Young” (the latter making the charts not once but twice with two separate versions released years apart). ETERNALLY YOURS is Alphaville’s eighth album to date.

Track listing:

CD ONE:

1. Dream Machine
2. Summer In Berlin
3. Big In Japan
4. Dance With Me
5. Summer Rain
6. Apollo
7. Elegy
8. Lassie Come Home
9. MoonGirl
10. Welcome To The Sun

CD TWO:

11. A Victory Of Love
12. Sounds Like A Melody
13. Around The Universe
14. Eternally Yours
15. Diamonds Are Forever
16. Flame
17. Forever Young
18. Big In Japan (BassRoque version)
19. Sounds Like A Melody (chamber version)
20. Forever Young (petite version)
21. Big In Japan (Single Edit)
22. Sounds Like A Melody (Single Edit)
23. Forever Young (Single Edit)