Gareth Sager - 88 Tuned Dreams - [Vinyl]

Gareth Sager, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and the founding member of The Pop Group, Rip Rig & Panic and Head announces the release of his first solo piano album. 88 Tuned Dreams will be released through Freaks R Us on Friday October 6th 2017. The self-produced album, comprised of fourteen melodic classical improvisations was recorded in one miraculous session at arguably the world�s most distinguished recording space; Studio One, Abbey Road.88 Tuned Dreams is an extraordinary affirmation of the liberated punk ideals that have continually inspired Gareth Sager throughout his career. Evoking a liminal world of uncanny yet warm atmospherics, the album is pervaded by impressionistic contemplation, revealing the roots of Sager�s early connection to the works of Erik Satie, Fr�d�ric Chopin and Claude Debussy.Only on Savage Sea, an astonishing high point of The Pop Group�s seminal debut Y, and Echelon, the desolate closing track on their 2015 return record Citizen Zombie, has Sager�s piano playing been as intimately and sublimely focalized as it is here. Withholding an introspective quality and invested with his own improvisational energy, these fourteen piano works are stunning low-lit invocations from one of post-punk�s most unpredictable and exploratory pioneers.As post-punk provocateur in The Pop Group, ringleader of avant-garde jazz / art pop collective Rip Rig & Panic, and an exponent of unruly folk balladry in Head, Sager has always given free rein to artistic impulse and embraced the unexpected. An industrious collaborator and a prolific solo artist in his own right, Sager has been an unremittingly restless and versatile force throughout the post-punk era and beyond, both a dynamic presence and a true originator.

Gareth Sager - 88 Tuned Dreams - [Vinyl]

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