News:
26-02-2008:
Marcel Coenen showing Bo-el MC6 guitar from his own guitarline. 17 feb '08 Groesbeek Holland.
Marcel Coenen Bo-El MC6 Demosession
11-02-2008:
Two really great live examples of Marcel Coenen's excellent playing!
Marcel Coenen - Shred festival 1
Marcel Coenen - Shred festival 2
16-12-2007:
Marcel Coenen added two more songs to the Sun Caged MySpace page, now a total of 6 streaming songs are to be heard on this page, all from the second album "Artemisia" so go and check them out: http://www.myspace.com/suncaged
live in the Underworld in London UK, during the UK tour 2007
sun caged/doldrums/christmaswishes
sun caged live a fair trade
sun caged live
30-09-2007:
Even more video this time from the Guitar Talk CD, which is well worth buying.
race against time
Marcel coenen/the wet season
guitartalk/move that groove
26-09-2007:
I ordered my copy of A live time journey. ... so time for some more video...this time Marcel Coenen in a temperatures of almost 35 degrees Celcius a performance in the university of Bangkok.
live in Bangkok/Thailand/instruction
25-09-2007:
Marcel Coenen with some music A live time journey.
The DVD includes the songs "Abstract Impact", "Verbal Defense Mechanism", "The Shrink", "La Bella Mira", "Traumatized To The Bone", "Still Bleeding", "Patron Saint", "Moyra", "That Moment", "The Skill Factor", "Inner Alchemy", "Shoreline", "New Race" and "Waiting". Music DVD, 83 minutes
waiting
new race
Moyra
Inner alchemy
Time Machine with Marcel Coenen on guitar playing Satriani
Time Machine with Marcel Coenen playing "Cryin"
05-09-2007:
Marcel Coenen posted new Sun Caged gigs: The band will have a few foreign gigs coming up, here are the dates:
Friday 7th of September: De Rots, Antwerp (Belgium)
Friday 14th of September: The Attic, Rushden (UK)
Saturday 15th of September: Underworld, Camden London (UK)
For all the UK fans a chance to see 3 Lion Music artists on one evening, co bands Seventh Wonder and Awake will also play. On the London show a local band called Son Of Science will also play.
20-07-2007:
Dave B and instrumentalcase.com have lined up another interview, this time with Marcel Coenen
Yes, I also teach guitar, which is how I make my living. I always use metronome when I teach, and I try to get my students to listen to themselves when they play. But I always make sure they keep on having fun when playing. And like I mentioned earlier, I also have an instructional DVD available. Maybe there will be a second one in the future, perhaps with a different approach, but at the moment I’m focused on releasing another solo album and a new CD with Sun Caged.
07-06-2007:
Marcel Coenen returns in a promotional video clip.
Marcel Coenen promo video
The making of colour journey
19-05-2007:
Marcel Coenen features on a new release. The production of German musician Hubi Meisel's third concept album, which will be entitled "Trinity", has been in progress for quite a while already. "Trinity" forms the completion of a conceptual trilogy, which started with "EmOcean" in 2004 and was then continued with "Kailash" in 2006.
Hubi Meisel has announced that his former bandmate in Dreamscape, Wolfgang Kerinnis, has joined him on this third journey and will play the guitar on five songs. For the instrumental music, Hubi once again closely cooperated with French keyboardist/composer Vivien Lalu, and also the rest of the "Trinity" crew consists of well-known colleagues. The full lineup is a follows:
Hubi J. Meisel - Vocals
Vivien Lalu - Keyboards
Wolfgang Kerinnis - Guitar
Marcel Coenen - Guitar
Jorge Salán - Guitar
Daniel Flores - Drums
Johan Niemann - Bass
The recordings have already started, and the album will be completed in the course of this year. The release of "Trinity" is scheduled for 2008.
05-05-2007:
The Dutch Joe Satriani Tribute band "Time Machine" playing the song "Lords Of Karma". Filmed in 2004 in a small pub in Geleen (Netherlands) called Ed & Roccos. Musicians: Marcel Coenen - Lead Guitar, Bjorn Koenen - Rhythm Guitar, Richard Ritterbeeks - Bass, Hans In T Zandt - Drums
Time Machine
01-05-2007:
Sample 1 taken from the Marcel Coenen (Sun Caged) live DVD 'A Live Time Journey'. Complete liveshow from Marcel Coenen & Friends, recorded in Weert at January 28th, 2006 out now on Lion Music
Lots of extra features, including a liveshow in Thailand, behind the scenes footage, picture gallery, biography and a hidden guitar solo.
A Live Time Journey sampler 1
25-04-2007:
Marcel Coenen Speaks About the Return of Sun Caged
"We are working on a small tour with Adagio in October 2007, and also a little tour in the UK with Awake later this year, more to come!"
Plus, the new Instructional DVD "SPEED UP". Guitar Lessons with tablature and backing tracks on DVD is available. Send Marcel an email to get more info about how to order: mcoenen@home.nl
25-03-2007:
Not released yet..but reviewed Artemisia CD ... Sounds like Mr Coenen delivers again...
24-03-2007:
OK I messed up...so a big thanks to Dave B...for letting me know...the video is now fixed...Marcel Coenen sells you his signature BO-EL guitar...
Bo-El MC6 Explanation by Marcel Coenen (from Speed Up DVD)
12-03-2007:
Marcel Coenen will be at the Artemisia CD Release Party hosted by Sun Caged on Friday Mar 23, 2007 at 8:00 PM at Plato, Molenstraat 123, Helmond, Netherlands.
22-02-2007:
Marcel Coenen is back with Sun Caged, with a virtually new line-up. Sun Caged release Artemisia, their second album and four years after their self titled debut. Artemisia delivers an album full of unstoppable vocal melody, virtuoso guitar work, odd time signatures and complex chord sequences all topped off with an ultra powerful production.
Track Listing
01. Lyre's Harmony
02. A Fair Trade
03. Unborn
04. Bloodline
05. Painted Eyes
06. Engelbert the Inchworm
07. Afraid to Fly
08. Dialogue
09. Departing Words
10. Doldrums
16-02-2007:
Marcel Coenen is back with Sun Caged for their next release. The new album is called "Artemisia" and will be released on March 23rd through Lion Music.
Marcel Says:
Sun Caged started out as a project back in 1999. Guitarist Marcel Coenen was at that time still in the band Lemur Voice. When Lemur Voice disbanded Sun Caged became a full time band and the hard work began. Several demo's were recorded and sent to labels before the band signed with finnish label Lion Music, meanwhile the band played as support of Queensrijche, VandenPlas, Threshold and they played on several festivals. The first album simply called "Sun Caged" was released in October 2003 and got very good critics worldwide. The album was mixed by Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon/Star One/Stream Of Passion). The band played more shows like on the famous Sweden Rock festival in 2004. Then some members left and the hunt for new bandmembers began. They were found shortly after and the band started working on new songs for the second album. 15 songs were written and were all recorded in the middle of 2006. 10 songs from these recording sessions will see the light with the release of "Artemisia".
Sun Caged will play a show to celebrate the release of the album, the show will be played in Plato in Helmond (The Netherlands, close to Eindhoven) on March 23rd, the day also the album is being released.
Gigs planned:
March 23: cd release party Helmond, Plato
April 21: Roermond, Azijnfabriek
May 26: Weert, Bosuil (as support of Spock's Beard)
See MySpace for more details: http://www.myspace.com/suncaged
31-01-2007:
Marcel Coenen on metal coverband Stormrider from The Netherlands playing this Judas Priest classic tune: http://www.stormrider.nl/
Stormrider - Victim Of Changes
16-01-2007:
Marcel Coenen has relased his speed up DVD.
The DVD has an hour and a half full of lessons (advanced lessons, including sweep picking, tapping, legato playing, melody construction, dynamics etc), 5 live songs (Skill Factor, New Race, La Bella Mira, Fusion and Moyra), Backing tracks of the 5 songs played, tablature for each lesson and one complete song (New Race) on the DVD as a PDF file.
speed up preview
If you can not order in Asia then send Marcel Coenen an E-mail (mcoenen@home.nl)and let Marcel know where you live and he'll get back to you.
Plus lots of live footage of Marcel with Symmetry posted on YouTube by frnksymm...samples
Lost
Journey into the unknown
11-11-2006:
More reasons to stretch the plastic for Marcel Coenen's DVD:
Moyra
30-10-2006:
A Live Time Journey is the much anticipated live DVD from Marcel Coenen (Sun Caged). The DVD is the live performance to launch Marcel's second solo album "Colour Journey" The DVD was recorded and filmed on January 28th, 2006 in Weert, The Netherlands, at "De Bosuil". The set list on A Live Time Journey contains all songs from "Colour Journey", some songs from Coenen's first solo CD "Guitartalk" and some cool covers. Total running time including all bonus features is about two and a half hours.
Special DVD features include: Digital Stereo, Hidden Bonus track: Guitar solo, 2 Cover songs ("Still Of The Night" and "Rooster"). Biography and DVD Story, Marcel Coenen Live In Thailand, Behind The Scenes, Picture Gallery, English Subtitles.
The DVD includes the songs "Abstract Impact", "Verbal Defense Mechanism", "The Shrink", "La Bella Mira", "Traumatized To The Bone", "Still Bleeding", "Patron Saint", "Moyra", "That Moment", "The Skill Factor", "Inner Alchemy", "Shoreline", "New Race" and "Waiting". Music DVD, 83 minutes
To order http://www.guitar9.com/alivetimedvd.html
21-09-2006:
Marcel Coenen's first DVD called "A Live Time Journey" is about to be released on Lion Music. Marcel Coenen has put two teaser clips online so you can see what the DVD will look like. The clips are highly compressed (Windows Media Format) so the actual quality of the DVD will be a lot better, but you will get an idea...
Here the clips:
DVD Preview Clip 01
DVD Preview Clip 02
15-08-2006:
Marcel Coenen has finshed the editing of his upcoming live solo DVD entitled "A Live Time Journey". The disc will feature the entire show played on January 28, 2006 in Weert, the Netherlands. In addition, the DVD will include a solo gig from Thailand, backstage and rehearsal footage, a gallery and a biography. The release is currently set for September via Lion Music.
03-05-2006:
A big thanks to Barend Tromp for providing the videos:
Lemur voice - divided live Den Bosch Holland
Lemur voice - Memory Lane Live Zeist
31-03-2006:
Loads of video now on google video for Marcel Coenen, including:
Inner Alchemy
Fusion
Shoreline
Race Against Time
06-03-2006:
Bob Katsinonis of Firewind, and Marcel Coenen jamming on an improvised metal instrumental.
22-02-2006:
Marcel CD Colour Journey is out and there are lots of videos on YouTube...Hurrah..
23-10-2005:
Marcel has posted some snippets from his up coming vocal album "Colour Journey" on his new myspace web site.
23-09-2005:
A new Jemfest video from Jemfest Germany 2005 is available of Marcel Coenen(rm) playing guitar.
10-09-2005:
Marcel Coenen is set to release "Colour Journey" on January 27th 2006. For more news from Marcel check here: http://www.marcelcoenen.com/news.htm.
16-05-2005:
Marcel is working hard on the mixing for his upcoming solo CD "Colour Journey". He's put together an MP3 teaser of samples of the new tracks for you to check out.
21-05-2005:
Marcel is the middle of the recording a second 11 track solo album (half vocal + half instrumental). The album, which will also feature keyboard guru Bob Katsionis, is expected in October 2005.
10-02-2005:
Marcel is now endorsed by Bo-El guitars . Check out his new video in mpeg format, or other videos.
Background:
Like Richard Hallebeek, Marcel was born in Holland. Starting guitar at the age of 10, Marcel came to play in heavy metal bands by the age of 15. Around this time Marcel, like many players of that time, became heavily influenced Yngwie Malmsteen and also other heavier acts around at that time.
He later started a progress band, AURA, in 1994 covering tunes by Rush, Fates Warning , Dream Theater and Queensryche. After recording a demo he was picked up by Mike Varney connected Magna Carta label specialising in progressive music and home of artists such as Jordan Rudess Liquid Tension Experiment and Andy West with Rama . The bands name was also changed to Lemur Voice.
Marcel started to gain some recognition for his guitar abilities and picked up an endorsement from Ibanez guitars.
Since then Marcel has recorded with european progressive outfit, Sun Caged who signed a recording contract with Lion music.
So why is he featured in this blog, well he also went onto to release a 12 song instrumental guitar CD, Guitar Talk. This release clearly shows some of his influences from Racer X , Paul Gilbert, Greg Howe to Allan Holdsworth.
Those lucky enough to buy early releases of this project also got an extra Video CD with Marcel covering all the tracks live. For those of you unlucky enough to have missed it, you can now get the guitar videos from the Marcel Coenen web site.