T o the Westcoast / My Fate

With ‘T o the Westcoast / My Fate (Revisited)’ by Ara Pacis we are proud to officially release two of the most exciting AOR tracks hailing from Germany. Ara Pacis, a group from the island Föhr in the North Sea, was originally founded in 1971. Initially influenced by blues and classic rock by The Rolling Stones, The Who, and the like, they were also inspired by bands such as Steely Dan as well as the German/British group Lake. However, Ara Pacis created a style of their own when their privately pressed and self-distributed ‘T o the Westcoast’ LP was released in 1979. The songs were mainly characterized by two-part guitar riffs by Töns Brautlecht- Deppe and Wolfgang Schiffner, who also were the core songwriters of the band.