Tangent Update

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I thought they were sounding strange until I realised that i-tunes was competing with Windows Media Player

Dear All.
Here we go with some more stuff to listen to. This is a substantial chunk of the final movement of the piece "Evening TV".
On this track you are listening to a working mix performed by
Gavin Harrison - Drums
Theo Travis - Wind instruments
Me (Andy) - everything else including fake bass guitar.
Real Bass parts will be the next thing to add.... and they will be superb from all accounts.
This song is based around some characters from an old school textbook called "Le Francais'D'Aujourd Hui" - a beginners book of the French language that I studied back in the early 70s. If you remember that book, you are as old as me!. In the book was a typical family "La Famille Bertillon" who were like the perfect nuclear family with 2 kids. They did perfectly normal things, except they did them in French! They went to work or school, and when they'd finished they came home, had a meal and watched TV. My fave chapter was when they woke up in "THE FUTURE", The future was "The World in the year 1980" and they travelled everywhere on monorails and ate special pills instead of food. 30 odd years later I'd still have to either go to Chester Zoo or Wuppertal to get a monorail ticket and ironically both those monorails are probably older than the textbook. The future was not as good as the book. (I think I've said that before somewhere.)
This track is a lot more like "The Tangent" of old than some of the rest of the album. We now have two months in which to complete the project. As yet we have only got half the real bass, David Longdon has begun producing some really beautiful vocal textures which aren't ready to demonstrate to you yet, and Jakko is being very secretive and I haven't heard anything he's done yet! We have much work to do, so if I go quiet you'll know why.
Theo's session took place just over a week ago and was really enjoyable despite the terrible snow that fell here and on Theo's journey home to London.
As those of you who follow our discussion group on Facebook, The Tangent is now re-signed to Insideout Music and they intend at present to release the album in June-ish!. There will be some fluctuation to the lineup of the band before then (very exciting news to come)
Also, on this recording you are about to hear, you get to hear my old Hammond 100 & Leslie on the first recording that I've made with it since the Po90 "Time Capsule" album in 1997. The organ has been in storage ever since that time and we managed to retrieve it to install in our new home in Yorkshire just a couple of months ago. It's great to have it back.
Gavin Harrison has had a new signature snare drum made for him by Sonor, (you can buy these). I'm very pleased to say that its first ever appearance will be on this record, along with a specially made cymbal that Gavin calls "The Tank" which you'll hear in the second movement.
Please don't fall in love too much with the sound of the demos - remember things will change!! But of course we don't want you to hate them either.....
I hope you enjoy this section of the piece, and once again thank you for your kind support of our little band.
Very best wishes from Andy, Sally and all participants in The Tangent 2013