Quantum Fantay Lands at ProgDay 2011!

ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST SPACEROCK BANDS arrives at Storybook Farm to carry us far away...

Belgium's QUANTUM FANTAY was founded in 2002 when PETE MUSH (keyboards) and JARO (bass) decided to form a band that would "change the city of Lokeren forever!" It became much more. With the addition of GINO BARTOLINI (drums) and DARIO FRODO (guitar), and five albums later, QUANTUM FANTAY has evolved to be an important contributor to the progressive rock / space rock / psychedelic scenes. Though QF has closed the first night of the Burg Herzberg Festival in Germany in front of over 7000 people, audiences in the US will best remember the band from it's wonderful appearance at NEARfest in 2009. New music has been released since, and the band is very excited to be returning to perform material that's never yet been heard in the US, as well as old favorites.

The band worked on new material and the second studio album, Ugisiunsi, was released in 2007. It contained "evergreens" such as "Forehead Echo," "Niek Schlut" and "Other Snowballs in Ghostlands," tracks that are still played today and get great response from the crowd!

For the first time, this album opened doors to the international circuit. The band played in Luxemburg, Holland, at the famous prog resiste convention in Verviers and closed the first night at the Burg Herzberg Festival in Germany in front of more than 7000 people. The complete show was recorded and released in 2008 as a double live-cd called "From Herzberg To Livingroom."

In order to promote this live album, QF embarked on its first European tour. After a stunning start in their hometown Lokeren, the band toured through Holland, Luxemburg, Belgium, Germany, Poland and Switzerland. They also played at the Symforce festival and at the Fonnefeesten for the second time! This time, the entire Fonnefeesten show was recorded for a bonus DVD that was released in 2009, along with the third studio album, Kaleidothrope, which holds fantaystic tracks such as "Cube," "Moving Circles," "The Spirit" (named after the best club in Belgium, Spirit Of 66 in Verviers) and "Zwar Ty Schapy." On this album QUANTUM FANTAY again improved its already outstanding quality and it's ability to make instrumental progressive space rock more breathable for larger crowds.

QF then embarked on another European tour, followed by a blistering show at NEARfest in the USA. It also toured with THRESHOLD and played at the Summer's End Festival in the UK with acts such as PENDRAGON, PALLAS and STEVE HACKETT. QF was also invited to the Io pages festival, where none other than THIJS VAN LEER from the illustrious band FOCUS played with the band on "Trip Escape."

Meanwhile, QUANTUM FANTAY worked very hard on a new album, Bridges Of Kukuriku, which was released in October 2010. Once again the critics were unanimously positive and QF rose to the top of the progressive spacerock scene. The band started promoting the album with a Benelux tour alongside one of it's big influences, OZRIC TENTACLES. Shows with UNITOPIA and headlining clubshows in Belgium and Holland followed.

In 2011, QUANTUM FANTAY will be touring globally, first in Europe (between March and May) where the band will play at the famous ProgSud Festival in Marseille, France. In August/September QF returns to the U.S.A. where it will play at the oldest progfestival in the world, ProgDay.

QUANTUM FANTAY
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