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Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio is very proud to present a special afternoon of music with Andy Tillison and The Tangent on July 7th at 2 PM EST. (7PM UK - 8 PM western Europe)We will be premiering the outstanding new live CD from The Tangent, "Going Off On One" (live DVD/CD available on Inside Out Music on June 26th). In addition, we will also be premiering Andy's Tillison's instrumental solo release, "FOG". Finally, we will be broadcasting an exclusive interview with Andy about all his musical escapades.
Andy will be joining us in chat are we are also hoping to have some exclusive new demos from some of new music Andy and The Tangent are working on.
This will be a special event that we hope you can join us for. You can learn more about Andy and The Tangent at their amazing website
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The Tangent to be joined by Jakko M Jakszyk: The Tangent's new album scheduled for release in early 2008 is set to feature Jakko M Jakszyk as guitarist. Jakko has an enormous history behind him in the story of progressive music, and his most recent solo album which features contributions from Robert Fripp, Mel Collins, (King Crimson) Clive Brooks, Dave Stewart (Egg National Health, Bruford) and Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree) - is testament to just a part of that history. Entitled "The Bruised Romantic Glee Club", the album is not to be missed. you can buy his album from US here. Jakko's website is HERE . Jakko M Jakszyk Jakko's most well known recent project in progressive circles was as the lead guitarist and vocalist for the 21st Century Schizoid Band, a name given to the reincarnation of the early King Crimson... where Jakko had to be Robert Fripp and Greg Lake at the same time. Jakko steps into the Tangent to fill a space formerly occupied by Roine Stolt and Krister Jonsson. All the band welcome him and hope for a productive future........ Krister Jonsson has played guitar for the Tangent since Roine left in 2004. Although he won't be appearing on the forthcoming album, the band are fully mindful of the enormous contribution he has made to the Place In the Queue album, and to the live dates and live albums that have happened before and since "Queue". The forthcoming Karmakanic album will be another opportunity to hear the man play alongside Jonas and Zoltan.... and there's guest performances from Tangenteers Theo Travis (Sax) and Andy Tillison (Hammond & Moog).
Krister Jonsson The Tangent's fluid lineup has been essential to the development of the group. Early demos of the new album featuring Jakko are extremely tasty... Watch this space! IAN OAKLEY
YOUTUBE video does not reflect picture or sound quality of DVD The new live set "Going Off On One" was released by Inside Out at the end of June.... and comes in TWO flavours..... but the Limited Digipack Edition sold out in the first 24 hours of release. Inside Out are now working hard to produce a DVD only edition... and release dates are as follows: 1. DVD Edition - Released July 16 (Europe) September 11 (USA) PREORDER here
Recorded in the UK at Southend on Sea in Sept 2006.
tracklist: 1. GPS CULTURE
2. DOUBLE CD EDITION - AVAILABLE NOW Buy it HERE
Tracklist: CD 1 1. GPS CULTURE CD 2 3. LIMITED SPECIAL EDITION - SOLD OUT
This included the DVD, both the audio CDs, a deluxe digipack cover with enhanced artwork and extended booklet. Artwork is by ED UNITSKY with some contributions from Martin Kornick. As mentioned before, the entire production run sold out by the end of the day of release. You may find copies still for sale if you look. However, PROGJAM has some attractive offers involving the DVD, CD at our ordering page A ROUGH VIDEO EDIT of "Lost In London" is available at youtube and can be found in the adjoining column
TANGENT 4 - A Crisis In Midlife Tangent 4 "A Crisis in Midlife" is still in recording now... and is developing well. Although it won't see the light of day until next year... the tracks are now pretty much finalised. A recording session at Jonas' studio in Sweden is taking place in June, and Andy, Theo and Guy will continue to work on the album through the long Autumn months. New Guitarist Jakko M Jakszyk is currently working on the album in his studios in London.
an alarming shot of what Andy and Guy describe as "A Recording Session" "This is an album that concerns US" says Andy Tillison, "US being people of our age... middle aged if you like. All of us have spent so much time listening to songs about falling in love for the first time... or having problems with our parents. I thought it might be time to have a look at the world from OUR perspective and perhaps write songs about how WE feel." So far, around 70 minutes of material has been written. The album (so far) seems different in tone to the previous 3 Tangent records... but with all the familiar trademarks there. "We want to look at some new possibilities" says Guy Manning, who is working a lot closer with Andy since he (Andy) returned to England from France, "but we don't want to lose the Tangent feel. It's still about songs and the joy of playing. We've tried to use some new sources of inspiration... some new sounds and styles we haven't used before. Andy's lyrics are a lot more introspective on this one too... and that does affect the music and the way it flows" In the meantime... GUY's next album (to be mixed for the first time ever by Andy) "Songs from the Bilston House" is nearing completion. More news on that very soon...... but plenty of info at Guy's site
SECRET GREEN - A new band with some real history
Formed by Francis Lickerish, guitarist, composer and founder member of The Enid. Joined by ex Enid members Willie Gilmour (keyboards) and Neil Kavanagh (bass and vocals) along with vocalist Hilary Palmer, guitarist Jon beedle, Andy Tillison on Keyboards and John Howells on drums, the band are currently recording the album Songs To Wake The King some of which will be aired along with some Enid classics at the Arundel Arts Festival More at http://www.myspace.com/secretgreen
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All orders made before 1 July from this site have now been despatched! NEWS in brief 1. Jakko M Jakszyk to join Tangent on guitars. See opposite column
2. New Tangent Live album and DVD to be released June 26 more in opposite column 3. Andy Tillison Diskdrive solo album "Fog" now available more 4. Andy and "Secret Green" - a new project involving quite a lot of the original THE ENID more 5. Progress of next Tangent studio album more
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FOG - The first real Andy Tillison Solo Album
In answer to the "Andy Tillison Can't Sing" thread on the Progressive Ears forum... and similar threads which disapprove of political lyrics in Prog.... Andy's first solo album is all instrumental!!!! (That had nothing to do with it of course!!) This is an album of atmospheric and electronic music which fuses Electronic soundscapes a la Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Micheal Hoenig etc together with prog, jazz and other forms. For those of you who have enjoyed the Tangent bonus tracks "Exponenzgesatz" and "Kartoffelnsalat in Unterseeboot"... this is an album NOT to be missed. Available to preorder NOW from this site (delivery expected late JUNE) Hear a 5 minute excerpt here
Tangent Radio Specials coming up See paragraph at top of page for the details of DELICIOUS AGONY's Tangent Day!! Come back soon to hear a recording of Andy & Guy's interview on Dave O's progshow on Phoenix FM on the first of July.
OLDER NEWS
Jan 5th 2007 saw Theo in the DGM Soundworld studio in Wiltshire recording a series of improvised duos with legendary guitarist Robert Fripp - famous as a founder member and the sole surviving original member of the great band King Crimson. He is also well know for his guitar soundscapes which he pioneered and has developed since the early 1970s. Recordings from this exciting and special collaboration will be heard on a CD later this year and more details will be released shortly. In late December 2006 The Soft Machine Legacy went into the recording studio in Sutton, Surrey run by Coloseum's drummer extraordinaire and main man Jon Hiseman. Over three days the band recorded seven brand new tracks written by the band (three by Theo) several improvisations and rerecorded a classic Soft Machine track. The band are very pleased with the recordings and they show a slight shift in direction since Theo's joining the band. The tracks will be mixed shortly and the new album should be ready for release in April/May.
2006 NEW YEARS HONOURS LIST The end of year "polls" and lists of progressive rock radio stations are all in - and the third Tangent album released in 2006 "A Place in the Queue" has been very favourably placed.
In more than 10 sets of polls/best of lists "Queue" has been in the top 3 titles of the year... The AURAL MOON listeners poll placed it at number ONE, the JUBALS WARDROBE (progressive soundscapes) list also at ONE, Delicious Agony TWO.. and there are others too. So thanks from the band to anyone who voted for the band in these polls. The Dutch Progressive Rock Poll placed "Queue" at number THREE with the vote for best song only missing the number one spot by virtue of the fact that 2 of the bands songs split the vote.... The biggest Spanish language poll put the Tangent at Number ONE. Jonas of course has had a double whammy, because "Paradox Hotel" by his "other band" :-) has done equally as well.. and Guy Manning has seen his "Ansers Tree" album getting some well deserved honours despite being a late release. As a TREAT for your support... here is a video clip (rough edit) of The Tangent playing a live version of "Lost In London". This is a YOUTUBE clip and hence the picture quality is hardly DVD standard......
see it LARGER on the AUDIO page with MORE PICTURES Visit the YOUTUBE site and leave comments if you like
TheTangent.org is a voluntarily run fan site made with the co-operation of the band and its members. Writers and contributors... Cliff Pearson, Ian Oakley, Andy Tillison, Michael Gardiner, Guy Manning, Theo Travis, Ed Unitsky, Adam Welch Chief Bod and final say- Cliff Pearson.
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