The Tangent – A Spark In The Aether (The Music That Died Alone - Volume Two)

The Tangent are one of today’s top-tier prog bands, centered on talented composer/keyboardist/singer Andy Tillison. This is the U.S. jewel case edition of The Tangent’s eighth album A Spark in the Aether, which contains the same bonus track as the European edition. This CD is subtitled The Music That Died Alone - Volume Two, a reference to The Tangent’s debut album. The lineup now is Andy Tillison, Theo Travis, Jonas Reingold, Luke Machin, and new drummer Morgan Ågren (Mats/Morgan band, Kaipa, Frank Zappa). Tillison says: “This is an album that seeks to return to the core of what The Tangent means to me… After our big orchestral opus that we delivered in Le Sacre du Travail, we’re to an extent reining in the instrumentation to the 5-piece electric prog rock band and focusing a little more on that all-important second word of the genre name: rock. At least (grins with less than average teeth) for the first half!” This time around, The Tangent incorporate American influences, ensuring A Spark in the Aether has something new to offer.

“This will probably be my album of the year for 2015... It is not every day that you hear an album for the first time and realise you are listening to an absolute masterpiece of writing, playing, and production. In this case it happened, and on subsequent listens gets even better.” [Background Magazine]