Renaissant for symphonic prog

With Renaissance touring and only Annie Haslam as a long time member at this point, I've been catching up on the surviving members of the Renaissance Mach 2 lineup.  Terence Sullivan, the drummer, gathered friends under the name of Renaissant in 2004.  In addition to drumming, he sings on a couple of tracks and plays keyboards and guitar.  His wife Christine is the main vocalist.  Other contributing musicians are now late lamented departed John Tout from the classic Renaissance, Martin Orford, Steve Rodgers, Lee Sullivan and Alex Caird, while the Betty Thatcher contributes lyrics to 4 tracks.   While not big P progressive, this has a lot more symphonic prog credentials than the Renaissance albums that preceded it in the 1990s and early 2000's, being somewhat reminiscent of the Mach 1 revival band "Illusion".  It doesn't look like this have ever been proposed sop I thought I would start with symphonic prog.  The whole album "South of Winter" is on spotify, but here are a few samples

Edited by kenethlevine - October 12 2015 at 11:03

Sounds more like Crossover to me.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - October 14 2015 at 13:38

SouthSideoftheSky wrote: Sorry Ken but with a no from Iván the door to Symphonic is closed. I listened to a few songs from the album on Spotify and tend to agree that Symphonic is probably not the best fit for this band despite the "mother" band being there. I note also that Illusion is in Eclectic, so you might try with them. Otherwise maybe Crossover as Iván suggested. I do not agree that the vocals are terrible, just a bit odd and with a certain charm.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - October 15 2015 at 10:42

SouthSideoftheSky wrote: Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: SouthSideoftheSky wrote: Sorry Ken but with a no from Iván the door to Symphonic is closed. I listened to a few songs from the album on Spotify and tend to agree that Symphonic is probably not the best fit for this band despite the "mother" band being there. I note also that Illusion is in Eclectic, so you might try with them. Otherwise maybe Crossover as Iván suggested. I do not agree that the vocals are terrible, just a bit odd and with a certain charm. I don't believe Eclectic will give a yes And I agree, the vocals are not terrible "per se", but in comparison with Annie's voice, it's almost a shock. But again, if the rest of the team says YES, I will change my vote and abstain, so they could be added. I agree with your assessment Iván, and we thus have two "No"s for Symphonic. And, yes, Eclectic will probably not accept this band either. Crossover is the best chance then, or even Prog Related?

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - October 15 2015 at 10:42

fudgenuts64 wrote: I have this one. Going to see the band in two days at NJPAC, hoping it will be a good show. As for the record, I think I'll play it tonight. I got it quite some time ago but the vocals initially soured it for me, couldn't really get over it. Let me try it again and I'll chime in.