The Tangent
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The Tangent are:
Sam Baine -
piano
Andy Tillison - keyboards and vocals
Krister Jonsson - guitar and vocals
Jonas Reingold - bass
Jaime Salazar - drums
Theo Travis- saxophone and flute
Genre: Symphonic Prog / Canterbury / Jazz Fusion |
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THE TANGENT
*Note - Specific lineup is
to be announced.
The Tangent's debut album, The Music That Died Alone was released
on
Sept 22 - 2003 by
Inside Out Records and gained world wide notoriety and was awarded best prog album
of the year in most progressive rock websites.
While
there may be some room for argument as to whether The Tangent’s debut
album, The Music That Died Alone was the 2003 Album of the Year,
there is no possible doubt that it was surprise album of the year.
Conceived of by bandleader, keyboardist and vocalist Andy Tillison as
“the Next Great English Prog Album,” The Music That Died Alone
offered rich symphonic prog that looked back to Prog’s First Wave but also
found plenty of space for the criminally underappreciated Canterbury
movement and even some spicy little hints of punk. It took the Prog world
by storm.
And yet, how could
The Music That Died Alone have been such a surprise? After all, the
album featured contributions from major figures from all three of Prog’s
great eras. From Prog’s Golden Age came Van der Graaf Generator’s David
Jackson on saxophone and flute. From Kaipa and The Flower Kings, the
band offered Roine Stolt on guitar and vocals – along with Flower
Kings bass player Jonas Reingold and drummer Zoltan Csorsz. The
latter two, along with Parallel or 90 Degrees’ Tillison and Sam Baine
(and Guy Manning of the Manning Band and proto-PO90 act Gold
Frankincense & Disk Drive) represented prog’s current Third Wave. Given the
phenomenal success of their debut album, the band’s follow up, The
World We Drive Through, scheduled for release in early fall 2004, is
unlikely to catch anyone in the Prog world by surprise.
While many have
referred to The Tangent as a “supergroup,” the fact is that The Music
That Died Alone began life as an Andy Tillison solo project. The
World We Drive Through leaves no doubt that the project has morphed into
a permanent band. And, in the grand tradition of prog, along with real
band-dom have come personnel changes. On The World We Drive Through
David Jackson has given way to noted Theo Travis (ex-Gong, Porcupine
Tree and a significant jazz artist in his own right). Although The
Tangent 'touring' band lineup is not yet confirmed for 2005 you can be sure
that any further replacements will again be of the highest caliber as the
band build on their success and reinforce themselves as the 21st century's
first new major Progressive act.
Whatever the details,
what Andy Tillison has put together in The Tangent is a full-fledged leading
light on Prog’s current event horizon, bending both space and time...
: : DISCOGRAPHY : :
 
The Music That Died Alone - 2003 The World That We Drive
Through October 2004
Official website -
http://thetangent.org/
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