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Prog legend Rick Wakeman has announced that he will release a brand new studio album recorded with his English Rock Ensemble band.
A Gallery Of The Imagination, the follow-up to 2020’s The Red Planet, will be released through Madfish/Snapper on February 24.
The new album is another conceptual affair, the initial idea stemming from Wakeman’s first piano teacher, Mrs Symes, with whom he studied from the age five until his time at the Royal College of Music. She taught him that music was like painting pictures: that when you play, you are painting pictures through music, an important lesson that Wakeman never forgot.
“One of my great loves is going to museums and art galleries and seeing all the different types of art, so I thought, why not a music gallery,” Wakeman says. “A Gallery Of The Imagination? People can paint their own mind pictures to the different types of music that are on the album. It is very diverse and for me it works very well because the concept holds it all together.”
One of the ideas Wakeman would like to pursue around album release is for listeners to draw or paint their own pictures or even create sculptures to the music which, in turn, could be displayed.
“It is a very tactile album” he explains. “I’d like to feel that people can actually touch the music.”
Joining Wakeman on A Gallery Of The Imagination are bassist Lee Pomeroy, guitarist Dave Colquhoun, drummer Ash Soan and on vocals Hayley Sanderson, famous for her work as a vocalist on Strictly Come Dancing.
The album has been produced by Wakeman and Erik Jordan and mastered by Simon Heyworth at Super Audio Mastering.You can view the artwork and tracklisting below.
Pre-order A Gallery Of The Imagination.
Rick Wakeman: A Gallery Of The Imagination
1. Hidden Depths
2. The Man In The Moon
3. A Mirage in the Clouds
4. The Creek
5. My Moonlight Dream
6. Only When I Cry
7. Cuban Carnival
8. Just A Memory
9. The Dinner Party
10. A Day Spent On The Pier
11. The Visitation
12. The Eyes of a Child
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- Rick Wakeman - Piano Portraits - 180gm - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £19.99, $25.39, €23.39 (New Item) (arrived 14-Mar-2024 11:49)on March 19, 2024 at 4:43 am
RICK WAKEMAN Piano Portraits (2017 UK limited edition 15-track double LP pressed on 180 GRAM VINYL - including Help, Stairway To Heaven, Life On Mars, Morning Has Broken and Claire De Lune, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows justminor wear and the vinyl remains in Excellent condition with minimal signs of wear)
- Rick Wakeman - The Burning - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.05, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 16-Nov-2023 13:57)on March 19, 2024 at 4:43 am
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK The Burning (1981 UK 11-track LP featuring Rick Wakeman's score from the soundtrack to the cult American slasher, an early project for an infamous Miramax producer, starring a young Holly Hunter & Jason Alexander [Seinfeld] with involvement from Tom Savini. The picture sleeve & vinyl are in Excellent condition CLASS12)
- Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII - 2nd - UK - vinyl LP - £10.00, $12.70, €11.70 (New Item) (arrived 24-Jul-2023 13:28)on March 19, 2024 at 4:43 am
RICK WAKEMAN The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Late 70s UK issue of the 1973 6-track vinyl LP on the silver A&M label, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal wear and the vinyl shows only light signs of play AMLH64361)
- Rick Wakeman - The Myths And Legends - 1st - UK - vinyl LP - £10.00, $12.70, €11.70 (New Item) (arrived 12-Sep-2023 11:22)on March 19, 2024 at 4:43 am
RICK WAKEMAN The Myths & Legends of King Arthur & The Knights Of The Round Table (1975 UK 7-track LP, complete with twelve page illustrated booklet, embossed gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear and the vinyl remains in Excellent condition with few signs of play AMLH64515)
- Rick Wakeman - Criminal Record - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.05, €17.55 (Back In Stock) (arrived 11-Oct-2023 08:14)on March 19, 2024 at 4:43 am
RICK WAKEMAN Criminal Record (1977 UK 6-track LP, a concept album which is largely instrumental apart from 'The Breathalyser' which features vocals by Bill Oddie of all people, complete with illustrated narrative inner, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear and the vinyl remains near 'as new' with few signs of play AMLK64660)
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