Ingenious Devices

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circumstances, and he would be aware that every night the fans would be comparing him to Longdon, yet he is a fine a b Ewing, Jerry (15 January 2023). "Multi-instrumentalist Carly Bryant quits Big Big Train". louder . Retrieved 9 March 2023. The ending of the song now more closely resembles the ending created for the live performances. The piano remains prominent, but there are a few added flourishes of the cymbals and the final notes are punctuated by the 17-piece string section and a prolonged electric guitar note. It's a far more satisfying ending than the original recording, which simply fades out (as an aside, the fade out really needs to disappear forever from recorded music). So please don’t mistake this album as a compilations or filler – the reinventions here are truly first class, and the live band “trailer” will leave you inspired to keep listening! A personal favourite BBT epic, East Coast Raceris a completely new studio version recorded by the line-up of the band as it was in 2019.Gregory Spawton proudly calls it “ the definitive studio version.” With Dave Gregory’s guitar solo on the closing section, previously featured only on live versions of the song, adding to the climactic closing passage, the finale and the “ Into history, into legend, she flies” lines are pure Prog heaven. Almost as iconic as Genesis doing the New Jerusalem in Supper’s Ready or the soaring middle section of Yes’ And You And I. In a word, goosebumps.

orchestral piece, "The Book of Ingenious Devices", which links "East Coast Racer" and "Brooklands", and then a live one of the finest singers in the prog scene and here, he has been kept front and centre while the arrangements haveFinally, Ingenious Devices features a live performance of "Atlantic Cable", recorded at Friars, Aylesbury in September 2022. Big Big Train announce surprise new album Welcome To The Planet". Loudersound.com. 21 October 2021 . Retrieved 21 October 2021. Additionally Ingenious Devices includes a previously unreleased orchestral piece called The Book of Ingenious Devices, which links East Coast Racer and Brooklands, as well as a live version of Atlantic Cable, which was recorded on the band’s tour in September 2022. Lewry, Fraser (20 November 2021). "Big Big Train singer David Longdon dead at 56". loudersound . Retrieved 22 November 2021.

While this endeavor may be preaching to the converted, it’s a fact many prog enthusiasts embrace. Devotees will meticulously dissect each nuance, alteration, and note, and that’s precisely the essence. Prog thrives on own internal validation after all, and therein lies its, well, ingenious nature. Ingenious Devices also features a live performance of Atlantic Cable, recorded at Friars, Aylesbury in September 2022. Lending the project a powerful sense of conceptual continuity, all the pieces revolve around how mankind has used its ingenuity to extend its reach by the development and deployment of technology.

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version of "Atlantic Cable", which was recorded on the band's tour in September 2022 with ex-PFM singer Alberto of 2022, but that had already been long planned and David had performed on it and knew exactly what it was going to The band's earliest songs were released on a demo tape in October 1991, and the band's first demo album, From the River to the Sea, was released in May 1992. During this time, the band continued to perform live dates, gradually playing to larger crowds in higher profile venues. With this release, Big Big Train has dared to push the boundaries even further, and in so doing, have created an impressive evolution.