Swiss rock legend Marc Storace’s band, Storace, announces the reissue of their first record, Live And Let Live, in a special edition including a bonus live album, out on December 13 via Frontiers Music Srl.
The first single, “Lady Of The Night”, and the accompanying visualizer, are also available now.
Marc Storace describes the theme of the new single, by saying: “For this song, I was inspired by the Victorian story of 'The Lady With The Lamp,' or Florence Nightingale, a brave volunteer nurse who, against all odds, improved the horrific sanitary conditions to stop wounded soldiers from dying in hospital during the Crimean War of 1854.”
“'Lady Of The Night' pays tribute to the brave and selfless nurses who fought very hard to save the lives of countless victims of the coronavirus during the recent world epidemic!”, adds Storace.
Talking about the album release, Storace comments: “Krokus had stopped to exist because of Covid and no one really knew what the outcome of the pandemic would be, so not wasting time I started working on a solo album! 'Live And Let Live' is rich in melodic vocals, colourful riffs, great guitar solos, many hooks and a solid driving rhythm section!!”
Watch the visualizer for "Lady Of The Night" below.
“During the past three intensive years playing throughout Switzerland we recorded many gigs and the live album features the best of the crop, highlighting songs we recorded during hot performances in Zürich’s Hallenstadion as special guests of KISS, and The Scorpions, and whilst sharing the famous 'Rock The Ring Festival' stage with Alice Cooper and his notorious band.
“Included on the setlist are songs from Krokus which we never play, like 'Midnite Maniac' and 'To The Top'; also a beefed up version of 'Telephone Man' from my late seventies London band Eazy Money”, he continues.
Live And Let Live is Storace’s first official solo album. It was recorded during the 2021 lockdown of the Covid pandemic and was produced by Cyrill Camenzind and Massimo Buonanno at Powerplay Studios, near Zürich.
Cyrill, Massi, and Marc composed some of the songs together, and they played on the album which also features the talented musicians Marco Blöchlinger on bass, Christian Roffler on keys, Jean Pierre Von Dach on lead guitar, and Gee K, Micha Dettwyler and Céline Hales on backing vocals.
Live And Let Live was officially released in Switzerland on December 18, 2021, during a gig at the legendary Music-Club outside Bern called the “Mühle Hunziken." It was performed by the studio band, all except J.P. Von Dach, who had been replaced by Turi Wicki due to his heavy touring commitments with Joss Stone.
Pre-order Live And Let Live here.
Live And Let Live tracklisting:
CD1:
"Live And Let Live"
"High On Love"
"Lady Of The Night"
"Carry The Burden"
"Broken Wings"
"No Place To Hide"
"Don't Wanna Go"
"Love Over Money"
"Time Waits For No One"
"Paradise"
CD2:
"Live And Let Live"
"High On Love"
"Midnite Maniac"
"Telephone Man"
"Lady Of The Night"
"Hellraiser"
"Broken Wings"
"To The Top"
"No Place To Hide"
"Don't Wanna Go"
"Carry The Burden"
"Love Over Money"
"Lady Of The Night" visualizer:
After an internationally streamed "Baloise Session" gig in the legendary Atlantis of Basel-City in January, the first edition of the Storace band embarked on a package tour of Switzerland with Megawatt and Coreleoni in March.
In May 2022, Storace embarked on a headliner club tour with a newly formed band. He wanted to deliver with an increased amount of that good old school hard rock feel, so in addition to Turi Wicki (lead guitar), Dom Favez (ex-Krokus rhythm guitar) and Patrick Aeby (ex-Krokus drummer) joined the band, together with Emi-Meyer (bass).
The new Storace band then went on to play at the Rock The Ring Festival near Zürich along with Alice Cooper and, on July 7, they opened for KISS at the Hallenstadion. Their headline tour continued further in 2022, with the new Storace team becoming even more solid, delivering with much charisma and a strong punch!
On June 2, 2023, Storace played at the Hallenstadion again, opening for Scorpions. Drummer Patrick Aeby managed to record a selection of material taken from these fresh touring years, included as a bonus disc in the reissue of Live And Let Live.
Maltese-born Swiss musician Marc Storace started his exceptional musical career in 1970, with the Swiss cult progressive band TEA, with whom he released 3 LPs and toured Europe and the UK. TEA also supported Queen during an early tour in Germany. Marc gained attention for his frontmanship and his high-pitched raunchy vocal tone.
Whilst in London in 1977, Marc formed Eazy Money whose song "Telephone Man" made it into the UK Metal Charts and is in the Storace set list today.
In 1979, Marc became the voice of Krokus, the most successful Hard Rock Band from Switzerland. After their first album with Marc, Metal Rendez-Vous, Krokus played several world tours, sold over 15 million records, and won many gold and platinum awards.
When the group disbanded, Marc formed the band Blue, who released their self-titled album in 1991, including the widely known hit “You Can't Stop The Rainfall”.
In the 90s and 2000s, Marc acted in two feature films (Anuk and Handyman) and reached gold status again with various Krokus formations and 3 LPs. With many guest appearances such as on 'Rock Meets Classic', 'Sweet 50th Anniversary', 'Ken Hensley Live in Switzerland', 'Schubert In Rock', and on Manfred Ehlert's albums 'Amen' and the rock opera 'Test', Marc remained present with his fans.
In 2008, the scene was surprised with the news that the original Krokus formation would be touring again. The success was tremendous: tours in the USA, Japan, Europe, and South America as well as two new studio LPs, which in turn earned platinum status. In December 2019, Krokus played their farewell concert at the sold-out Hallenstadion in Zurich.
At the beginning of 2021, Marc started working on his solo career as Storace and, at the end of 2021, he released his first solo album Live And Let Live. Marc started his first tour in Switzerland accompanied by the studio band in the middle of the difficult pandemic times. Since May 2022, Marc has been performing with his new band and rocking the stage like never before.
Marc spent 2023 and 2024 writing and producing the new album Crossfire, a monster piece of hard rock, with songwriting shared between Marc Storace, guitar player Tommy Henriksen (Alice Cooper band), and drummer Pat Aeby (Krokus, Gotus).
Crossfire, produced by Tommy Henriksen and mixed by the award-winning engineer Olle Romo, features a collection of hard rock anthemic songs, with big choruses, great guitars, and an awesome rhythm section.
Storace are:
Marc Storace - Vocals
Dom Favez – Rhythm Guitar
Serge Christen – Lead Guitar
Patrick Aeby - Drums
Emi Meyer – Bass
- Produced by: Tommy Henriksen
(Photo - Ueli Frey)
