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Showing posts with label Robert Webb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Webb. Show all posts

Monday, November 20, 2017

England "Box of Circles"


Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Green Tree - Nu Music Records (CD, vinyl)
Format: digital, CD, vinyl
Release date: November 20, 2017 (digital), February 2018 (CD, vinyl)
Tracklist
1. Carmina Burana (4:00)
2. Destiny (6:01)
3. Hymn (3:50)
4. Masters Of War (4:18)
5. God Must Be A Boogieman (4:23)
6. Timelessness (5:15)
7. Fags, Booze & Lottery (4:47)
8. It Couldn't Be You (4:09)
9. Wheel Of Fortune (4:18)
10. Fine Alley (5:52)

Total Time 46:53

Line-up
Robert Webb
Jode Leigh
Martin Henderson
Franc Holland
  With
Al Johnson
Maggie Alexander
Steve Laffy
Jenny Darren
Ytaka Masuda
Henry Dagg
Marc Atkinson (Riversea)
Clara Kanter
Nina Kanter
Sjaak van der Bent
Keith Abbs
Malcolm Abbs
Dee Griffiths
Jandira Silva
Bryony Maddern
Eun Jung Lee
Jonny Gee

Description/Reviews
The music on this album has taken a long while to finalise. One or two tracks have appeared as 'bonus tracks' on previous England albums, but now for the first time the 'concept album', if we dare use that term, is complete. Many guest singers and instrumentalists have added their musicianship to the original (1977) line up. So... Marc Atkinson (of Riversea), Jenny Darren, and Henry Dagg (to name a few) appear. Additionally, later band members from the Baja Festival days (2006), Al Johnson, Maggie Alexander and Steve Laffy have been a major influence in the development of ideas. As is conventional in defining 'progressive rock music', there is a strong western classical music influence: classical choir singing (Sjaak vander Bent, Baritone), 'early music' singing (Clara and Nina Kanter), and symphonic keyboard ideas, mostly on 'authentic analogue instruments' such as the Mellotron and Minimoog synthesiser. 
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It Couldn't Be You
Carmina Burana
Masters of War
God Must be a Boogieman
Hymn

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Robert Webb "Liqourish Allsorts"


Country: UK
Sub GenreProgressive Rock, Pop
LabelSeacrest Oy
Release date: July 2014
Tracklist
  1. Prelude to the Ladies' Valley - 0:37
  2. Why Oh Why - 3:12
  3. Moog Fugue - 4:13
  4. Grand Canyon of My Dreams - 3:45
  5. The Journey By Camel - 2:32
  6. Limoncello - 8:02
  7. Bach Flute Sonata Allegro  - 3:08
  8. The Cuckoo - 3:53
  9. Destiny - 6:30
  10. Carmina Burana (O Fortuna) - 4:01
  11. Takin' Part - 4:35
  12. Quaterfoil - 1:20
  13. Liquorish Torpedo - 3:35
  14. Oceans Away - 2:44
  15. Runnin' In, Runnin' Out - 3:44
  16. The Ladies' Valley - 7:44
Line-up
Robert Webb (England) - keyboards, bass guitar (8)
   With
- Jenny Darren, vocals (1, 4, 14, 16)
- Marco Bernard (The Samurai of Prog), Rickenbacker bass  (1, 6, 16)
- Bogati-Bokor Akos, guitars  (1, 16)
- Kimmo Porsti (The Samurai of Prog), drums  (1, 3, 6, 8, 13, 16)
- Jamie Moses (England), voice (2), guitar (11)
- Tony Beard, drums (2)
- Steve Carmen, bass guitar (4)
- Nicko McBrain, drums (4)
- Luis Jardin, percussion (4)
- Tony Sadler - string arrangement (4)
- The David Katz Orchestra, strings (4)
- Steve Unruh (Resistor), violins, vocals (6)
- Yoshihisa Shimizu (Kenso), guitars  (6)
- Chris Zantioti, guitars  (6)
- Fabian Baird, drums (7, 8)
- Rachel Hamilton, baroque flute (7, 8)
- Jode Leigh (England), drums (9, 10)
- Yutaka Masuda, bass guitar (9)
- Al Jonson, guitar (9, 10)
- Martin Henderson (England), Al Jonson, Maggie Alexander, Clara Kanter, Malcolm Abbs, Keith Abbs, backing vocals (9)
- Jonny Gee, double-basses (10)
- Eun Jung Lee, piano (10)
- Frank Holland (England), vocals (10), backing vocals (9)
- Sjaak van der Bent, Martin Henderson (England), Dee Griffiths, Malcolm and Keith Abbs, Maggie Alexander, Jandira Silva, Clara and Nina Kanter, Bryony Maddern, choir (10)
- Dave Whitlow-Brown, drums (11)
- Paul Taylor, bass guitar (11)
- Alan Love, lead vocal (11)
- Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, voice (15)

Description/Reviews
”Liqourish Allsorts” includes recordings from 1973 to 2014. The album has brought together various recordings from Robert's work in the field: from early studio sessions, through unreleased home recordings and onto current music work. The latter include rock band performances by England, Baroque Nouveau and The Samurai of Prog. 

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