To Follow Polaris, by Andy Tillison/The Tangent

To Follow Polaris

by Andy Tillison/The Tangent

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	1.	The North Sky 11:08
	2.	A Like in the Darkness 08:20
	3.	The Fine Line 08:01
	4.	The Anachronism 21:01
	5.	The Single 05:52
	6.	The North Sky (Radio Edit) 03:40

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To Follow Polaris’ is a new "full on" Progressive Rock album by The Tangent. That's not necessarily a surprise…that's what the band are known for. But at the same time, it's something else too. In a year when members of The Tangent could be seen onstage all over the world with Steve Hackett, Soft Machine, Karnataka, David Cross, It Bites, Cyan and others, it became clear that there was not going to be time to get together for anything more than one gig in April 2023. So the band agreed that leader/main writer Andy Tillison would keep the material coming and would make an album by The Tangent entirely alone. It would still be The Tangent. For One.

Produced between January and November 2023, the album features Andy using his mutliple keyboards system as normal, but adds to the mix his first ever released performance on Bass Guitar and his second on Stick driven (electronic) drums. Add electric and acoustic guitars and electronic wind controller, and this is a full band recording in every sense of the word.

Conceptually Andy claims the album is, ahem, "highly optimistic" but regular listeners to his work will anticipate correctly that this optimism will not be ill founded or over-easy and will be highly critical of obstacles to that optimism and the album will look as much into the dark as it does into the light. Overall its message is that regardless of the march of progress and great socio/political difficulties involving the apparent end of "Truth" as a benchmark, there are certain things that are slightly less transitory which can be followed and he uses the North Star, Polaris as his metaphor for hope and constancy.

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released May 10, 2024

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Andy Tillison – all instrumentation & vocals

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Andy Tillison/The Tangent Leeds, UK

Andy Tillison is a composer/producer from the UK. He has led bands such as The Tangent, Po90 and Kalman filter amd released more than 25 albums over the years, ranging from Progressive Rock thru Jazz Fusion and into Berlin School Electronica. In 2018 he was voted "Keyboards Player Of the Year" in the UKs PROG magazine and he continues to write and release music in a variety of styles. ... more

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