Quite a few Tangent goings on at the moment. Firstly, to thank everyone who has bought "A Place On The Shelf", and to let everyone who hasn't got round to buying know that…
A Place On the Shelf is STILL available from our website www.thetangent.org - a whole album of previously unreleased pieces including our version of a large Stravinsky piece, plus a whole new 20 minute long epic, described by some as the best track we ever did. Reviews of this have been few, but highly enthusiastic, and thanks to anyone who wrote one of them…
THE NEW ALBUM
Yes, we're recording again, heavily into the composition at the moment. Our next album is currently called "COMM" and is shaping up nicely for release in early 2011 we hope. We're agreed to work once again with Ed Unitsky on the sleeve for this one, after 2 albums with other artists, and that's something you may want to look forward to. We don't deliberately make CONCEPT albums as you may know, but we do have themes in our records, and it looks like the theme of this one is all about communications (and lack of them)…
GIGS:
The Tangent now have a few gigs coming up, mostly in the UK. We've recently had a very successful trip to Italy where we headlined a festival in Parma - the first review of which states that the audience were "blown away by their enthusiasm". There's some photos at the website and the facebook site of course.
THE TANGENT with UNITOPIA in the UK
weekend of Fri/Sat 22nd 23rd October.
weekend of Fri/Sat 22nd 23rd October.
Yup, these two Insideout bands will play together, firstly in London at the LUMINAIRE on FRI Oct 22. Then on the Saturday it's up to the CRS at the WESLEY CENTRE in Maltby, Rotherham, Yorkshire. This is a "No headline, No support" equal billing set of shows. Unitopia will OPEN proceedings in London, The Tangent will OPEN in Rotherham
THE TANGENT at the PEEL. Saturday November 13. The "House Of Progression" at the Peel in Kingston, LONDON, is now London's only dedicated progressive rock music venue and we are delighted to be playing our first gig there. This will be a full length set (around 2 hours we hope)…
THE TANGENT in BELGIUM. Sunday November 14 at the SPIRIT OF 66 at Verviers. The band return to a favourite haunt for a brief foray into Europe.
NEXT YEAR we are planning on returning more to Europe, and hopefully cracking that elusive American Festival date. Anyone who can help us with these goals, please get in touch, and - well until the next time, thanks for listening.
5 comments:
I guess that whole thing with Beardfish fusing with this band has not come to pass. Any info?
I don't know how far it ever really got...I know that Andy decided that it was far easier and less costly to rehearse with a fully British band, which I totally understand and appreciate. The last album was with the British band, and was quite good, actually...I'm sure I have a review of it on here somewhere. Beardfish has been working on their follow up to Destined Solitaire, and as for The Tangent, well...you see what they're up to here.
Oddly, and forgetting that I had this piece queued for today, I listened to the live Going off On One today...
This time I did a little research, as far as Internet Explorer could take me ... I wanted to see if Roine Stoilt or Jonas Reingold were on the new CD, but didn't see them, although the pictures of the guys sort of resembled them...
Guess this current line-up is doing better w/o them, as the commentaries/testimonies said on their site @ .org.
Roine's been out of the band from a studio standpoint since the second album...Krister Jonsson handles guitars on Queue, Going off on One, Jakko Jakszyk on Not as Good as the Book and Down and Out. Jonas left following Not as Good as the Book, right around the time the band was discussing their merger with Beardfish. I miss Jonas, as I think he was a fine bassist, but Jonathan Barret did a fine job on Down and Out, and I do actually prefer the Tangent albums after Roine left to those with him...not a swipe at Roine, as I enjoy his work generally speaking. I just think the band found their own voice when the two parties went different ways.
Mpomy...hope this helps...some additional info:
"...they (Beardfish) are still in contact with Andy and we would love to arrange some shows with them at some point it is really just a question of finding a time when both bands are available. The original idea of a Beardfish/The Tangent alliance was put on ice when Beardfish were offered the Tour with Dream Theater, sadly this never happened for them but by that time Andy had found his new band members and everything had moved on..."
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