The Tangent: guarda il video di ‘The Single’ dal nuovo album “To Follow Polaris”
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Dopo aver recentemente annunciato il nuovo album “To Follow Polaris”, in arrivo il 10 maggio su Inside Out Music, i THE TANGENT sono orgogliosi di presentare il nuovo singolo “The Single”:
Il commento del lider maximo Andy Tillison:
“‘The Single’ è stato originariamente registrato dalla mia precedente band Po90 circa 25 anni fa, su un album chiamato ‘The Time Capsule’. Nello spirito di quella capsula del tempo, l’ho aperta un quarto di secolo dopo e ho registrato questa versione aggiornata con nuovi testi aggiunti alla versione precedente. La vecchia versione Po90 era la traccia che in un certo senso definiva quello che sarebbe stato The Tangent e dargli il trattamento alla the Tangent è stato un grande piacere. È una canzone sulla documentazione della storia e sui nuovi modi in cui questo accadrà, sia buoni che cattivi…”
Disponibile anche il video del precedente singolo “The North Sky”: https://youtu.be/x5CAzcKZXvA
“To Follow Polaris” sarà pubblicato nei formati Limited Deluxe Collector’s Edition CD Mediabook (con bonus track e un booklet di 24 pagine), Gatefold 180g 2LP vinyl (con bonus track) e in digitale. Disponibile il preorder: https://thetangent.lnk.to/
THE TANGENT – “To Follow Polaris”
The North Sky 11:36
A ‘Like’ In The Darkness 08:19
The Fine Line 08:04
The Anachronism 21:01
The Single (From A Re-Opened Time Capsule) 05:51
The North Sky (Radio Edit) 03:42
Tea At Bettys (Bonus Track) 17:32
Produced between January and November 2023, the album features Andy using his multiple keyboards system as normal, but adds to the mix his first ever released performance on Bass Guitar and his second on stick driven (electronic) drums. Add electric and acoustic guitars and electronic wind controller and this is a full band recording in every sense of the word. A recording which shows Andy’s lifelong influence by artists such as Yes, Van Der Graaf Generator, Porcupine Tree, Groove Armada, Earth Wind & Fire, Roger Waters and his bands, Return To Forever, Deep Purple, Gentle Giant, Steely Dan and any band featuring the keyboard player Dave Stewart.
Watch Andy discuss the making of the new album here: https://youtu.be/Lbqa5QP77L4?
In a year when members of The Tangent could be seen onstage all over the world with Steve Hackett, Soft Machine, Karnataka, David Cross, It Bites, Cyan and others, plus on recordings by those artists and The Anchoret, The Michael Dunn Project, Argos and Retreat From Moscow, it became clear that there was not going to be time to get together for anything more than one gig in April 2023.
So the band agreed that the band’s leader/main writer Andy Tillison would keep the material coming and would make an album by The Tangent entirely alone. It would still be The Tangent. Just for one.
“Besides Which” Andy says, “I’ve always wanted to do this, use what I have learned from Luke, Jonas, Steve, Theo and many other alumni and take it to final production. Now was the time!”
What transpired over the following year is in one sense an “absolutist” solo album and is entirely the work of one person in all aspects including artwork, layout, design, lyrics, composition, performance, recording, production, mixing, mastering and authoring. But in another sense it’s totally Tangent. “I could not have begun to make this record without having had the experiences of working with the band. So although the different instruments are not attempted to be played in the actual style of the normal lineup, they are inspired by the kind of things these guys do”
Conceptually Andy claims the album is, ahem, “highly optimistic” but regular listeners to his work will anticipate correctly that this optimism will not be ill founded or over-easy and will be highly critical of obstacles to that optimism and the album will look as much into the dark as it does into the light.
The album is intended to be thought of as a regular Tangent album – but not as the future of the band. It’s everyone’s intention to make the FOURTEENTH album as The Tangent. For Five.
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