88 Tuned Dreams, by Gareth Sager

88 Tuned Dreams

by Gareth Sager

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Craig White Dug backward from Ghost Ship....Looks like Springer wasn't the only gifted pianist in Rip Rig & Panic! Absolutely sublime! Favorite track: Chapel Perilous.

Mark Crosland just listened to the preview of this itunes - flipping' wonderful!! now I've got to wait till its proper release. Bugger!!!

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1.	Chapel Perilous 02:56	buy track
2.	Old Haunts New Scenes 03:08	buy track
3.	Shipwrecked Rusty Birds 03:08	buy track
4.	Oblong Malfunctions 03:24	buy track
5.	The Touch of a Strangers Skin 02:31	buy track
6.	Black Crow in a Slow Snow 03:36	buy track
7.	The Bells That Banish The Devil 02:45	buy track
8.	Waltzing In An Ill-Suited Chest of Honours 01:54	buy track
9.	Eulogy to Lost Elegance 03:47	buy track
10.	Everything is a Blessing 02:08	buy track
11.	Apparently (It's The Way He Looks In Your Eyes) 03:12	buy track
12.	Chagrin In Madrid 02:21	buy track
13.	Slaughtered Science 02:23	buy track
14.	The Showgirl Is Not Past Her Prime 04:03	buy track

about

“I remember Gareth Sager just marching onto stage, picking up his guitar and bursting into something without looking at any amplifier or anything like that. It was just this unholy, manic, violent, paranoid, painful music that came out. It was just one of those moments when you feel the cogs of your mind shift and your life is irreversibly changed”
Nick Cave

'A truly evolutionary piece of music' Ransom Note

'Richly melodic & deftly performed' Norman Records

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.

A self-produced album comprised of fourteen melodic classical improvisations, 88 Tuned Dreams was recorded in one miraculous session at arguably the world’s most distinguished recording space; Studio One, Abbey Road.

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. 88 Tuned Dreams is an extraordinary affirmation of the liberated punk ideals that have continually inspired him 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, Frédéric Chopin and Claude Debussy.

Only on Savage Sea, a stunning 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.

An industrious collaborator and a prolific solo artist in his own right, Sager has been an unremittingly restless and versatile force in the post-punk era and beyond, both a dynamic presence and a true originator.

“I entered Studio One, Abbey Road as a piano playing punk, I had the biggest studio in Europe at my disposal with one of the greatest pianos, and a few hours, time was of the essence. I felt the gods had opened the doors to me to be in that studio at that time so I could express the feelings of ghosts, time lost, emotions found. I was given the chance to totally express the inexpressible. This sort of venue encourages that, a brew of Erik Satie and the third Velvet Underground LP!” Gareth Sager

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released October 6, 2017

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Gareth Sager London, UK

Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter & composer originally from Edinburgh.

Founding member of The Pop Group / Rip Rig & Panic

Also solo & collaborative projects as Gareth Sager & The Hungry Ghosts / Jock Scot & Gareth Sager / C.C. Sager / Float Up CP / Head / Pregnant / The Nectarine No. 9

Labels: Freaks R Us / Creeping Bent / Bristol Archive Records

Management: freaks@freaksrus.net ... more

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