Astrakhan - Retrospective AEC Video Patton cites 20th century American

Patton cites 20th century American fiction ("from Fitzgerald and Hemingway and Faulkner to Kerouac and Salinger and Raymond Chandler") and the various lives of the friends he grew up with in Maryland ("I knew doctors and lawyers and waitresses and teachers and water rats and gravediggers and the guy who drove the truck that emptied the port-o-pots all over the state") as the main source of his lyrical inspiration

the band put out a limited edition album that was released in Japan only

His musical talents manifested themselves from early on

But as he makes a gruesome discovery

the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Astrakhan - Retrospective AEC Video Patton cites 20th century AmericanCD reissue. 2013 release. When Retrospective was released back in 2013 the worlds magazines turned their views towards this new band from Sweden. Is this a "super group" from Sweden featuring members from Pain of Salvation, Royal Hunt, Evergrey? Apart from musicians that was familiar faces from the prog scene Astrakhan was fronted by Sweden's best vocalist Alex Lycke. Alex experience from the international world of musicals was some thing else than