I’ve done an interview with Dutch progressive rock magazine, IO Pages, and I’m happy to share that I’m on the cover of the latest issue for the first time as a solo artist. A few years back I was on the cover of the same magazine with Sound of Contact. 

Thank you Prog Magazine for nominating my song “Stranded” from my debut solo album “New World” to be voted upon for “Anthem Of The Year” at the 2015 Progressive Music Awards! It truly is an honor to be recognized amongst my peers and musical heroes like Pink Floyd, Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson and so many others.

If you want to support me you can vote for “Dave Kerzner – Stranded” in the “Anthem Of The Year” category here: http://awards.prog.teamrock.com/vote/anthem

You can vote for artists in other categories here: http://www.progmagazine.com/awards

I don’t know how long the voting lasts for so if you’re going to do it then please do it soon! To everyone who has already voted for my song to win this honor, I can’t thank you enough. Awards aren’t the end all be all. But, it’s what it represents that matters. Even being nominated is rewarding. However, if I’m going to fly back to England to attend this award ceremony I want to at least give a little speech to show my gratitude. In other words, I prefer to win! Haha! So… what do you think? Reasonable pitch?

Dave Kerzner and his band are pleased to return to Cruise to the Edge for 2017! 

The 2017 Cruise to Edge, the 4th voyage of the ultimate Prog Rock experience at sea, will set sail February 7-11, 2017 aboard a new ship!

This year’s four-night exclusive full ship charter cruise will set sail out of Tampa, Florida aboard Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance Of The Seas, visiting Cozumel, Mexico and feature 15+ artist performances, including headliners YES, Kansas, Steve Hackett, John Wetton, Mike Portnoy Patrick Moraz and many more.

We had a great time on the 3rd Cruise to the Edge in 2015!

February 9th, 2015, Miami, Florida –  Dave Kerzner, formerly of the band Sound of Contact, has just released an expanded 2 CD version of his acclaimed Progressive Rock debut solo album. “New World – Deluxe Edition” ships world-wide today in an elaborate double disc package with over 143 minutes of music from eSoundz.com in the US and BurningShed.com in the UK. A special “Mastered for iTunes” downloadable version is now available on iTunes and a high quality mp3 & FLAC version is available with pdf booklet on Kerzner’s “Sonic Elements” Bandcamp page.

The Deluxe Edition features 23 tracks total with 5 additional vocal songs, 7 cinematic instrumentals and extended versions of the songs from the standard single CD album, “New World”.

“All the new songs are placed in their correct order within a concept album.” Says Kerzner “This isn’t just the album plus a bonus disc of outtakes. These are songs that could have been on the main album but there simply wasn’t enough room on one CD. This version has longer intros, outros and segues which gives it a live concert and movie-like feel to the overall listening experience.”

Both “New World” and “New World – Deluxe Edition” feature special guests Steve Hackett (Genesis), Keith Emerson (ELP), Simon Phillips (The Who), Nick D’Virgilio (Tears for Fears), Francis Dunnery (It Bites), Durga McBroom (Pink Floyd), David Longdon (Big Big Train), Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), Billy Sherwood (Yes), Heather Findlay (Mostly Autumn), Russ Parrish (Kevin Gilbert), Jason Scheff (Chicago) and more.

Dave Kerzner was recently voted in the top 10 for 3 categories in Prog Magazine’s Reader’s Poll for 2014 for “Album of the year”, ‘Keyboardist of the year” and “Tip for 2015”!

Dave Kerzner “New World – Deluxe Edition” on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/album/id964375824

On Bandcamp: https://sonicelements.bandcamp.com/album/new-world-deluxe-edition

On CD world-wide from https://www.davekerznermusic.com and http://www.esoundz.com
In the UK from:  http://www.burningshed.com and http://www.themerchdesk.com

Press Release: December 11, 2014, Miami, Florida.

Former Sound of Contact Keyboardist and Co-Writer/Producer, Dave Kerzner, has put together his first solo album called “New World” after parting ways with the band. It is now available from iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp and other popular digital download sites. Dave’s Bandcamp page http://sonicelements.bandcamp.com/ has the album streaming in full and includes both a high quality FLAC download as well as mp3 and PDF lyrics/liner notes.

Kerzner’s 78-minute concept album features an all-star cast of guest musicians including Steve Hackett (Genesis), Francis Dunnery (It Bites), Durga McBroom (Pink Floyd), Keith Emerson (ELP), Nick D’Virgilio (Tears For Fears), Simon Phillips (The Who), Billy Sherwood (Yes), David Longdon (Big Big Train), Heather Findlay (Mostly Autumn), Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), Jason Scheff (Chicago), Russ Parrish (Thud) and more.

The Standard CD and Deluxe multi-disc editions of “New World” will be shipping later this month and beginning of January 2015 from http://www.esoundz.com and https://www.davekerznermusic.com with additional world-wide outlets to be announced soon.

New World on Bandcamp:
https://sonicelements.bandcamp.com/album/new-world

New World on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-world/id950090630

Clips from all 11 songs can be heard on YouTube:
http://youtu.be/jbhfKufjDPI?list=UUzSgbJr4_QEiBr–4YDQyAw

About Dave Kerzner

Dave Kerzner is a songwriter, producer, keyboardist and vocalist from Miami, Florida. Over the years, Dave has worked with many artists and producers ranging from Kevin Gilbert to Keith Emerson, Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson, Crowded House, Genesis and more. He is known in the “Prog World” as a founding member of the award-winning band “Sound of Contact”. He is also the CEO/founder of the popular sound development company “Sonic Reality” that creates music software products used world-wide by top artists in the music industry. Dave’s work with Sonic Reality includes co-productions with legendary artists and producers such as Alan Parsons, Ken Scott, Neil Peart, Nick Mason and more. After many years working behind the secnes with other artists, Dave decided it was time to take center stage as lead vocalist and put out his debut Progressive Rock album “New World”.

For more information visit: https://www.davekerznermusic.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davesquidskerzner
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/davekerzner
Sound Cloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/davekerznerband
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/davekerzner
For interview and album review inquiries contact: davesquidskerzner@gmail.com

September 9th, 2014, Miami, Florida – Dave Kerzner, former member of the Progressive Rock band “Sound of Contact”, is gearing up for a late October release of his debut solo concept album, “New World”. The first single off the album, “Stranded”, has just been released as a digital download from iTunes®, Amazon®,  Google Play® and other on line stores. “Stranded” is a 10 minute “rock opera” comprised of 5 parts. It features Kerzner on vocals and keyboards with special guests Steve Hackett of Genesis, Durga McBroom of Pink Floyd, Nick D’Virgilio of Spocks Beard, Jason Scheff of Chicago and it was mixed by legendary engineer Tom Lord-Alge.

A shorter edited version called “Stranded Part 1 – Isolation” has been made as a “mainstream radio-friendly single” and will be available as a free download to anyone who signs up on the mailing list at davekerzner.com this month. Additionally, the full length album version will be made available through Kerzner’s bandcamp page: http://sonicelements.bandcamp.com/

Stream Stranded (Single) On Sound Cloud:
https://soundcloud.com/davekerznerband/stranded-single

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davesquidskerzner
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/davekerzner

Lyric Video On YouTube:

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