“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there“
A ‘historical spoken word’ progumentary for boomers
In September 2025 Aurelia-Records will release E.D.O.’s first solo album named “The Past Is A Foreign Country”. It’s a concept album on the western post war history (1945-2025): seven retro instrumental prog tracks. On the one-time limited CD edition two bonus tracks are added. The album will be available as CD (01-09-25) and as download stream on Bandcamp (01-10-25).
1. Wannsee (1933-1945)
2. Stettin (1945-1963)
3. Houston (1962-1974)
4. Port Stanley (1974-1982)
5. Chernobyl (1983-1989)
6. Schengen (1989-2022)
7. Mariupol (2022-?)
Accompanied by this album there are digital liner notes to be found on this website. Please click here to visit this page for historical background information, the full transcriptions of the speeches and quotations used and the justification regarding the copyright of these audio fragments.
“Edo has succeeded to present a very melodic, harmonic and accessible concept album with a good balance between the pleasantly arranged symphonic rock compositions, and voices and sound effects that epitomize the historical facts and atmosphere. He has delivered strong arrangements on his first solo effort, it never sounds too dramatic or too fragmentic. This is Dutch prog on an international level, highly recommended, wow!” (Erik Neuteboom Background Magazine)
Any profits of this album will be donated to the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR
