Sanguine Hum "A Trace Of Memory"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Bad Elephant Music
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: November 20, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. New Light (3:04)
2. The Yellow Ship (13:08)
3. Pyramids (4:50)
4. Thin Air (4:45)
5. Unstable Ground (4:10)
6. Still As The Sea (3:22)
7. Automaton (8:49)

Total Time 42:08

Line-up: 
Joff Winks – guitar, vocals, piano (3), string arrangements (2)
Matt Baber – keys, synths, drums (4), field recordings
Brad Waissman – bass, Chapman stick, upright electric bass
   With
Paul Mallyon – drums (2, 5, 6, 7)
Andrew Booker – electronic percussion (1), drums (3)

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Paul Mallyon "Promise of Light"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: July 4, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Fuel To The Fire (3:41)
2. Follow The Sorrow (4:19)
3. Like Minded Fool (3:54)
4. Warning Shot (3:58)
5. Cruel Sir (3:56)
6. Promise Of Light (5:31)
7. Together (5:02)
8. The Trophy (3:49)
9. Time For Sleep (4:21)

Total Time 38:31

Line-up: 
Paul Mallyon (Sanguine Hum) - all instruments, vocals

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Sanguine Hum "Now We Have Power"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Bad Elephant Music
Format: CD, digital
Release date: October 12, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. The View Part 1
2. The View Part 2
3. Skydive
4. Retreat
5. Speak To Us
6. Devachan Don
7. Pen! Paper! Pen! Paper!
8. Flying Bridge
9. Bedhead
10. Quiet Rejoicing
11. Speech Day
12. A Tall Tale
13. Flight Of The Uberloon
14. Swansong

Line-up: 
Joff Winks - Vocals, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Synths, Sound Effects
Matt Baber - Pianos, Synths, Organ, Guitar, Sound Effects
Brad Waismann - Electric Bass, Double Bass, Chapman Stick
    With:
Paul Mallyon - Drums
Kimara Sajn - Vocals (11)
Mark Kesel - Trumpet (9, 13)

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Sanguine Hum "Now We Have Light"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Esoteric Antenna
Format: CD, digital
Release date: February 23, 2015
Tracklist: 
Disc 1

1. Desolation Song (6:28)
2. Drastic Attic (3:35)
3. Getting Warmer (3:02)
4. Out of Mind (5:52)
5. Theft (4:52)
6. "Shit!" (2:13)
7. Chat Show (6:56)
8. Derision (6:30)

Disc 2

1. Just a Prelude (1:57)
2. Cat Factory (2:57)
3. On the Beach (6:07)
4. End of the Line (9:22)
5. Spanning the Eternal Abyss (17:04)

       i) A Temporal Bursting
       ii) The Gusty Forest
       iii) Cog
       iv) On Another Beach
       v) Double Bubble Trouble
       vi) Bubble Trouble
    6. Settle Down (5:38)

Line-up: 
Matt Baber: Keyboards
Joff Winks: Guitar and Vocals
Brad Waissman: Bass
Andrew Booker (Henry Fool, No-Man): Drums
   With
Jim Hart: Vibraphone

Description/Reviews: 

Now We Have Light is the third Sanguine Hum album, following on from the acclaimed albums Diving Bell and the Weight of the World. Now We Have Light is a double CD concept album. Unusually with this record, it is also something that the band have been working on for over a decade, and its roots go right back to the days of Antique Seeking Nuns, which was the earliest project that guitarist Joff Winks and keyboard player Matt Baber collaborated on. During this time they hatched a truly bizarre conceptual story to hang even more music around - a work that perhaps was too ambitious for them at the time, and one which took the formation of Sanguine Hum to make it a feasible challenge to complete. Somewhat like a twisted mix of Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage and the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Now We Have Light is a future parable set in an entirely possible scenario, in which entirely impossible events start occurring.
Although a core group of songs were written for this album as far back as 2002, the band were inspired by the most recent Sanguine Hum material to revisit the old tunes and where needed develop and rewrite what already existed, whilst also creating a large amount of brand new music at the same time. Ultimately, it has come to represent a definitive cross section of all the work that they have made as Antique Seeking Nuns, Joff Winks Band, Nunbient and Sanguine Hum thus far.

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Matt Baber "Outskirts"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Instrumental Jazz-Rock, Electronica, Ambient
Release date: September 16, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Testing 00:56
2. Main Theme From Outskirts 05:38
3. That Would Appear to be That 04:17
4. Beta Max 04:48
5. Drum Road 03:52
6. Osloop One 02:14
7. Run 02:23
8. Trojan 04:23
9. Head Down 04:05
10. Red Dust 06:23
11. Osloop Two 01:24
12. It's Behind You 06:38

Line-up: 
Matt Baber (Sanguine Hum) - Drums, electronic percussion, Rhodes, Synths, Piano, Sound Effects

Description/Reviews: 

Inspired by the cover image, and the hypothetical question “what would an album with that cover sound like?”, the all-instrumental recording Outskirts attempts an answer with an unusual mix of electronica, Jazz Rock and Prog.

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Sanguine Hum "The Weight of the World"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Post Rock, Modern Prog
Label: Esoteric Antenna
Release date: March 26, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. From the Ground Up
2. System For Solution
3. In Code
4. Cognoscenti
5. Day of Release
6. Phosphor
7. The Weight of the World (Parts 1 to 3)

Line-up: 
Matt Baber: Keyboards
Joff Winks: Guitar and Vocals
Brad Waissman: Bass
Andrew Booker: Drums

Description/Reviews: 

“The Weight of the World” sees Sanguine Hum expand their musical horizons on all fronts with a seven-track collection of diverse compositions - technically challenging and exciting yet always melodic and direct. Songs such as “From the Ground Up” and “System for Solution” pursue the Porcupine Tree meets Radiohead approach of the debut record “Diving Bell” with powerful yet intricate riffs propelling the songwriting that continues to make ever more inventive use of surprising twists and turns in the arrangement. Surprises are to be found as well in the instrumentation as the band open up the sound and more explicitly reference a love of electronica and the music of artists such as Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin, best heard in the song “Day of Release” as synthetic percussion and rumbling synths give way to chiming acoustic guitar and a soaring vocal melody. Perhaps even more exciting for a band that perhaps held some of their Prog influences in check on their debut album, is the 15-minute title track that manages the task of combining effective and emotional songwriting with thrilling musical developments that push the band to the limit. “The Weight of the World” breaks new ground for a band at the forefront of truly “progressive” music.

Also read the review by Tonny Larssen at progplanet.com

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