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Docker's Guild is the solo effort of Douglas R.
Docker, who put his talent and writing skill into
"The Mystic Technocracy", a progressive rock space
opera which unfolds over 5 seasons. "Season 1:
The Age Of Ignorance" sees release via Lion Music on
15 June 2012.
Docker's Guild, The Mystic Technocracy's first season, entitled “Season I: The Age of Ignorance”, sees the participation of worldwide acclaimed musicians like Gregg Bissonette (David Lee Roth / Joe Satriani), Magnus Jacobson (Miss Behavior), Tony Franklin (Blue Murder), Guthrie Govan (Asia), Jeff Watson (Night Ranger), John Payne (Asia), Göran Edman (ex Yngwie Malmsteen, Karmakanic), Amanda Somerville (Avantasia / Epica), Tony Mills (TNT/ Shy) and many others and sees release through Lion Music in June 1012. Docker's Guild, even if inspired by progressive masters like Yes, ELP, Dream Theater and Genesis, lives on its own sounds which is a very personal mixture of progressive roots played and crafted by mainly AOR musicians. The Mystic Technocracy is a new and exciting science-fiction story and music project that has been in development for a number of years. It is the fictional outcome of a very simple observation: for 4000 years man has tortured, murdered, waged warfare and committed genocide in the name of the same God worshiped by Christians, Jews and Muslims, the three monotheistic religions. It is not a story against religion, but it is a story about the madness of man when he falls under the influence of fanatical dogmatic faith. This religious premise has then been plugged into a science-fiction universe, in which religion was created by a silicon-based life form, the Mystic Technocracy, in order to control, manipulate and eventually destroy humanity.
The sound of The
Mystic Technocracy results from the mixture
of several music styles. Progressive rock is
the main driving force, with Yes, ELP, Dream
Theater and Genesis being particularly
influential. The songwriting and vocal
arrangements have also been inspired by
melodic rock and AOR acts, mostly Asia and
Journey. More subtle and unusual influences
come from Duran Duran, David Bowie,
Jean-Michel Jarre and obscure French
space-rock act the Rockets. The project
therefore contains complex multi-section
suites, more straightforward rock songs or
ballads, as well as more unusual
instrumental or groove-oriented tracks.
On The Mystic
Technocracy, Douglas Docker comments, “If
you like TV series and 1930s serials like
Babylon 5, Space 1999, Flash Gordon and Buck
Rogers, this is for you. If you like
progressive rock bands like Yes, ELP and
Dream Theater, AOR bands like Asia and
Journey as well as Duran Duran, David Bowie,
Jarre and The Rockets, this is also for you.
If you have, like me, a healthy dislike of
fundamentalism, and blind dogmatic faith,
and spend lots of time wondering why so much
pain and destruction can be generated by
religions whose main goal is supposed to be
love and compassion, then this is definitely
for you”.
The music is mainly
keyboard-oriented and Douglas's fine
instrumental work is inspired by musicians
like Geoff Downes, Gregg Giuffria and Keith
Emerson. The album is a 79 minutes long
opera, 10 songs among which 2 long suites,
in the perfect tradition of progressive
masters’ albums from the past.
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