TONY BANKS RELEASES BRAND NEW
ORCHESTRAL ALBUM 'FIVE' TODAY
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"Five
is a gorgeous collection" -
Best Classic Bands
"A wonderful piece of work." - SongFacts
"5
is a shining gem of sonic beauty that is truly deserving of your attention and
a round of emphatic applause. Bravo, Mr. Banks!" - Cryptic Rock
"Fifty years ago Tony Banks started
bringing pastoral English eccentricity to nascent progressive rock with
Genesis. Now he’s taking this most dignified (but difficult) next giant step
for any classically-grounded prog pioneer by bringing up to date and thus
keeping alive the music that first inspired him." - Prog
Tony Banks today
releases his brand new orchestral album entitled Five via BMG. Five is available on CD, double 12” gatefold vinyl,
digital download and stream.
To celebrate
its release, Billboard.com is premiering a behind the scenes look into the
making of the album. Click
here to watch
A Rock &
Roll Hall of Fame inductee as a member of Genesis (2010), Five is Banks’ tenth album
outside of the band and his third orchestral album following the releases of Seven: A Suite for Orchestra
(2004) and Six Pieces for
Orchestra (2012).
Five is a collection of
five compositions written by Tony Banks and was produced by long-time
collaborator Nick Davis. Nick Ingman, renowned orchestrator and conductor,
agreed to be involved in the project immediately after hearing the demos played
to him personally by Banks. Ingman has worked with a plethora of artists and
musicians from David Bowie and Oasis to the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra.
The
recording was built up over various sessions, the first in London’s Angel
Studios where solos and percussion were recorded before a transfer to Prague
for a week where concentrated sets of three sessions a day with the orchestra
and choir. Recording section by section is a more rock/pop method and seen as
unorthodox for an orchestral album, but this method allowed Banks, who also
played all of the piano parts*, to use his vast musical experience and give
himself greater creative control.
The impetus
for Five was a
commission for the 70th Cheltenham Music Festival in 2014, for which Banks
composed the original version of what now appears as the opening track,
‘Prelude to a Million Years’. Then it was entitled ‘Arpegg’ and received its
world première on Saturday 5 July 2014 with Maxime Tortelier conducting the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Following
some consideration, Banks and Davis worked on four further pieces to join
‘Arpegg’ and form this new album. Feeling incomplete as an album of four
compositions, Banks pulled inspiration from an earlier piece composed during
his Genesis days and named it ‘Renaissance’ which completed the album.
Tracklist:
01. Prelude To A Million Years
02. Reveille
03. Ebb And Flow
04. Autumn Sonata
05. Renaissance
Producer Nick Davis
Orchestrations/Conductor Nick Ingman
Photo
credit: Emily Banks
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