The Tangent
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The Tangent | |
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| Genres | Progressive rock |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Labels | Inside Out Music |
| Website | www.thetangent.org |
| Members | Andy Tillison |
The Tangent is a progressive rock group formed in 2002.
History[]
Formation[]
The band was formed in 2002 by keyboardists Andy Tillison and and multi-instrumentalist Guy Manning; The Flower Kings' guitarist Roine Stolt, bassist Jonas Reingold, and drummer Zoltan Csörsz; and renowned saxophonist David Jackson of Van der Graaf Generator. The band was scheduled only to be a "one-off" side project but has produced ten official studio albums and a number of live albums since.[1]
The Tangent has had numerous changes in personnel resulting in Tillison being the only member to have been on all the recordings.
Live performances[]
Since 2003 the band in its various forms has played concerts and festivals in the US, UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and France. Members of the band also occasionally appear as special guests on stage with other artists. On 13 February 2012 guitarist Luke Machin joined Pain of Salvation on stage at The Garage in London, England, playing on the song Kingdom of Loss.[2]
Cover art[]
The band had much of their cover art done by artist , who worked closely with the band when designing their album artwork. His cover for The Music That Died Alone (2003) won Best Artwork in the 2003 Dutch Progressive Rock Page polls.[3] Ed has completed five album covers for The Tangent.
The outer cover artwork for the band’s 2020 ‘Auto Reconnaissance’ album was again provided by Unitsky while the inner sleeve art was created by newcomer Sara Mirabbasi.
Cover artwork for the album Not as Good as the Book (2008) was created by French artist Antoine Ettori, for Down and Out in Paris and London (2009) by mbl graphics.
Personnel[]
Current members[]
Studio band from the latest release, Auto Reconnaissance in 2020: [4]
- Andy Tillison (keyboards, vocals)
- Theo Travis (saxophone, flute, duduk)
- Luke Machin (guitar)
- Jonas Reingold (bass guitar, vocals)
- Steve Roberts (drums)
Former members[]
- Roine Stolt (guitars, vocals)
- Jakko Jakszyk (guitars, vocals)
- Göran Edman (vocals)
- (guitars)
- (guitars)
- (guitar)
- Dan Watts (guitar)
- (keyboards, piano, vocals)
- (keyboards, vocals)
- Lindsay Frost (keyboards)
- Lalle Larsson (keyboards)
- Marie-Eve de Gaultier (keyboards, vocals)
- (bass guitar)
- (bass guitar, vocals)
- (bass guitar, vocals)
- (bass guitar)
- (drums)
- Zoltan Csörsz (drums)
- (drums)
- (drums)
- Paul Burgess (drums)
- (drums)
- (drums)
- (drums)
- Gavin Harrison (drums)
- Morgan Ågren (drums)
- David Jackson (saxophone, flute)
- Guy Manning (acoustic guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, keyboards, vocals)
- Julie King (vocals)
- David Longdon (vocals)
Discography[]
Studio albums[]
- The Music That Died Alone (2003)
- The World That We Drive Through (2004)
- A Place in the Queue (2006)
- Not as Good as the Book (2008)
- Down and Out in Paris and London (2009)
- COMM (2011)
- (2013)
- A Spark in the Aether (2015)
- The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery (2017)
- Proxy (2018)
- Auto Reconnaissance (2020)
Live albums[]
- Pyramids and Stars (2005)
- Going Off on One (2007)
- (2010)
- London or Paris, Berlin or Southend On Sea (2012)
- (with Karmakanic as Tangekanic) (2018)
Compilation albums[]
- A Place on the Shelf - a special enthusiast's collection (2009)
- (2013)
References[]
External links[]
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- Rock music supergroups
- English progressive rock groups
- Musical groups established in 2002
- 2002 establishments in England
- Inside Out Music artists