Rick Wakeman recording new album

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Topic: Rick Wakeman recording new album

Posted By: Dellinger
Subject: Rick Wakeman recording new album
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 13:17

I just read that Wakeman is recording a new prog rock instrumental album to be released later this year

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Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 13:19

Source?

Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 00:22

SouthSideoftheSky wrote:

Source?

His website. Grumpy Old Rick’s ramblings for January.

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Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 02:34

Ok, I found it, here's a link: http://www.rwcc.com/gorr.asp" rel="nofollow - https://www.rwcc.com/gorr.asp

He says it is not yet recorded, but will be released in late March already. That's optimistic! I bet that it will take longer... Anyway, no further info on it at this time.

Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 03:25

Follow Rick on Twitter and you will get updates about the album. And soup.

Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 10:23

^That's how I found about it too. The album, the soup, and his missing hat.

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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 16:47

lazland wrote:

SouthSideoftheSky wrote:

Source?

His website. Grumpy Old Rick’s ramblings for January.

Someone tell him there is no such thing as new prog music anymore.

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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 23 2020 at 00:31

also this

http://www.ents24.com/festival/hrh-prog-2020/5788081" rel="nofollow - https://www.ents24.com/festival/hrh-prog-2020/5788081

http://www.ents24.com/festival/hrh-prog-2020/5788081" rel="nofollow -

Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: January 23 2020 at 07:23

I follow him on Facebook and I saw it there a week or so ago.

Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: February 13 2020 at 08:30

http://www.musicglue.com/rick-wakeman-the-red-planet/" rel="nofollow - https://www.musicglue.com/rick-wakeman-the-red-planet/

More info on this new album which will be released on April 3rd.

Pre-orders are taken, but no info on track list (other than that there will be 8 tracks).

Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 13 2020 at 13:47

Anyone going to go for this one -

Admiral Associate Producer Credit, plus Merchandise & Signed Vinyl & CD/DVD

https://www.musicglue.com/rick-wakeman-the-red-planet/products/star-admiral-star-associate-producer-credit-plus-merchandise-and-signed-vinyl-and-cd-slash-dvd" rel="nofollow -

Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: February 13 2020 at 13:52

Slartibartfast wrote:

Anyone going to go for this one -

Admiral Associate Producer Credit, plus Merchandise & Signed Vinyl & CD/DVD

https://www.musicglue.com/rick-wakeman-the-red-planet/products/star-admiral-star-associate-producer-credit-plus-merchandise-and-signed-vinyl-and-cd-slash-dvd" rel="nofollow -

Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: March 23 2020 at 11:10

SouthSideoftheSky wrote:

http://www.musicglue.com/rick-wakeman-the-red-planet/" rel="nofollow - https://www.musicglue.com/rick-wakeman-the-red-planet/

More info on this new album which will be released on April 3rd.

Pre-orders are taken, but no info on track list (other than that there will be 8 tracks).

Less than two weeks till the announced release date, and still no info on the tracks.

There are a couple of new videos though: http://www.rwcc.com/notices/theredplanet.php#trpvideo" rel="nofollow - https://www.rwcc.com/notices/theredplanet.php#trpvideo (but only talk, no music)

Here Rick says that the album is recorded and is currently being mixed.

Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: March 24 2020 at 15:07

Nice, I hope it comes out good. His last rock albums (Out There, and the Retro ones) have been great.

Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 24 2020 at 15:38

So can anyone tell me how many of Rick Wakeman's huge amounts of albums are any good?

I've probably only heard about ten and only like about half of them.

Some are just plain awful!

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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 24 2020 at 17:17

siLLy puPPy wrote:

So can anyone tell me how many of Rick Wakeman's huge amounts of albums are any good?

I've probably only heard about ten and only like about half of them.

Some are just plain awful!

I own many. Which ones have you already heard?

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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 24 2020 at 17:59

verslibre wrote:

siLLy puPPy wrote:

So can anyone tell me how many of Rick Wakeman's huge amounts of albums are any good?

I've probably only heard about ten and only like about half of them.

Some are just plain awful!

I own many. Which ones have you already heard?

Six Wives

Myths and Legends

Journey To Centre Of Earth

No Earthly Connection

Criminal Record

Cost of Living

Cirque Surreal

That's all i can remember at the moment. Sure i've heard a few more but completely forgotten about them.

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Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: March 25 2020 at 00:23

siLLy puPPy wrote:

So can anyone tell me how many of Rick Wakeman's huge amounts of albums are any good?

I've probably only heard about ten and only like about half of them.

Some are just plain awful!

Yes, sadly Wakeman has erred on the side of quantity instead of focusing on quality. He seems to have made an album every few months for decades, and not even his most hardcore fans can keep track!

Yet, what is exciting about the upcoming album The Red Planet is that it will be a Prog album, and he hasn't done that in quite a while now. Plus it will be all instrumental. I'm excited!

Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: March 25 2020 at 00:33

siLLy puPPy wrote:

verslibre wrote:

siLLy puPPy wrote:

So can anyone tell me how many of Rick Wakeman's huge amounts of albums are any good?

I've probably only heard about ten and only like about half of them.

Some are just plain awful!

I own many. Which ones have you already heard?

Six Wives

Myths and Legends

Journey To Centre Of Earth

No Earthly Connection

Criminal Record

Cost of Living

Cirque Surreal

That's all i can remember at the moment. Sure i've heard a few more but completely forgotten about them.

Out There is a pretty good album. Even more so, I would recommend his full band live albums.

Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 25 2020 at 02:14

I would also endorse both the Retro and Out There albums

I like the New Age Trilogy as well ( Country , Sea and Night Airs)

Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 25 2020 at 09:54

siLLy puPPy wrote:

verslibre wrote:

siLLy puPPy wrote:

So can anyone tell me how many of Rick Wakeman's huge amounts of albums are any good?

I've probably only heard about ten and only like about half of them.

Some are just plain awful!

I own many. Which ones have you already heard?

Six Wives

Myths and Legends

Journey To Centre Of Earth

No Earthly Connection

Criminal Record

Cost of Living

Cirque Surreal

That's all i can remember at the moment. Sure i've heard a few more but completely forgotten about them.

If you love Rick's approach to multi-keyboard playing (who doesn't?), then Retro and Retro 2 are essential. Even if the vocal stuff isn't to your taste, the instrumentals will more than make up for it.

Red Planet looks like it's going to be the Retro 3 we waited for but didn't get!

As referenced, Out There (with the great Damian Wilson) on vocalis is a superb concept prog outing, and the subsequent live DVD is a mandatory purchase (Adam joins his dad as second keyboardist).

I also recommend his soundtrack to The Burning.

1984 is another good one, better than the rest of the vocal-oriented albums he did in the '80s.

Themes is completely electronic (some of us like that sort of thing).

A bunch of great releases when it comes to his piano playing, too!

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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 25 2020 at 10:56

^ awesome! Thanks :) I've been afraid to dip into his overwhelming massive output.

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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 25 2020 at 13:07

No prob! Plus, YouTube is the best platform for sampling...anything!

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Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: March 26 2020 at 06:14

For those who have seen Wakeman's Made in Cuba DVD from 2005 - which is excellent by the way - I note that it is the same line-up (minus vocalist Ashley Holt, as this album will be instrumental) that have now recorded The Red Planet.

That is Rick himself (obviously) on keyboards, Lee Pomeroy (who also performed with Yes featuring Anderson Rabin Wakeman) on bass, Dave Calquhoun on guitars, and Ashley Soan on drums, with Erik Jordan (who played extra keyboards on Made In Cuba) co-producing the new album with Wakeman.

Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: March 26 2020 at 06:23

Does anyone still believe that the new album will be released on April 3rd, basically in a week from now? Or will it be delayed like so much else right now?

Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 26 2020 at 10:26

SouthSideoftheSky wrote:

Does anyone still believe that the new album will be released on April 3rd, basically in a week from now? Or will it be delayed like so much else right now?

It will likely be delayed, but you are right about the Made in Cuba dvd. It is excellent

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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: March 28 2020 at 14:26

verslibre wrote:

siLLy puPPy wrote:

verslibre wrote:

siLLy puPPy wrote:

So can anyone tell me how many of Rick Wakeman's huge amounts of albums are any good?

I've probably only heard about ten and only like about half of them.

Some are just plain awful!

I own many. Which ones have you already heard?

Six Wives

Myths and Legends

Journey To Centre Of Earth

No Earthly Connection

Criminal Record

Cost of Living

Cirque Surreal

That's all i can remember at the moment. Sure i've heard a few more but completely forgotten about them.

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Out of the ones you've heard, I the ones I don't know are Cirque Surreal and Cost of Living (actually, I'm not that sure about Cost of Living... I sort of think it came bundled up in the same CD of some other Wakeman album I ordered once, in which case it would be forgettable at best). Of the rest, the only one I don't really like that much is "No Earthly Connection", which has some wonderful ideas, but ends up being a mess while putting them together (I much prefer the shorter version played on the live CD "Out of the Blue", which keeps the very best of it in a more cohesive form). I guess the rest of the albums are just about the best I have heard from him, only missing Out There (with the same line-up as that live "Out of the Blue" live one). Then, there are some very good songs within the albums "Phantom Power", "Can you Hear me", "Return to the Center of the Earth", and the "Retro" albums. A few songs I sort of remember liking which I don't have the complete albums are "Ice" and "The Fighter". O yeah, and Stella Bianca is a nice one too, though more new-agey and less proggy (as well as the Lord of the Rings album, which I believe is just a renamed version of 7 Wonders of the World, and I would even wonder if Wakeman had any part on the re-release of that music with different names).

Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: March 28 2020 at 14:55

A small sample from the upcoming album has been made available:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlB5Z-JO-M&feature=emb_logo" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlB5Z-JO-M&feature=emb_logo

Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: March 30 2020 at 15:31

He posted an update on Instagram, albums officially delayed

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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 04 2020 at 08:05

From the section I heard in the link, I’m sold !! Seems he has his Mini working overtime once again. He has the best Minimoog sound out of all of them (dozens of keyboardists), maybe it’s just his style and pitch-wheel mastery that gets me. Merlin is prime example.

Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 01:47

^ King Arthur is just chocked full of great synth playing. If its anything like that I will be very happy indeed!

Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 02:00

richardh wrote:

^ King Arthur is just chocked full of great synth playing. If its anything like that I will be very happy indeed!

It sounds promising. Sure do love King Arthur - I’ve had the album for over 30 years and love it more nowadays than ever before. Wonderful album. Journey is great too.

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