Where are they now? - Others associated with
Yes
(in alphabetical order)
This page last updated: 28 Jan 2012
On this page: Damion Anderson - Deborah Anderson - Jade Anderson - Tony Anderson - Jeff Berlin - Tom Brislin - Alex Bruford - Nina (Wakeman) Carter- Matt Clifford - Julian Colbeck - Roger Dean - Francis Dunnery - Jonathan Elias - Ahmet Ertegün - David Foster - Bruce Gowdy - Larry Groupé - Jimmy Haun - Aaron Horn - Dylan Howe - Jen Howe - Virgil Howe - Zoë Street Howe - Andrew Jackman - J. J. Jeczalik - Eddie Jobson - Sidonie Jordan - Gary Langan - Alex Lasarenko - Tony Levin - Milton McDonald - Frank Macchia - Mark Mancina - Eddie Offord - Michael Plotnikoff - Steve Porcaro - Graham Preskett - Alex Proyce - Ryan Rabin - Randy Raine-Reusch - Bobby Sherwood - Michael Sherwood - Phyllis Sherwood - Jill Sinclair - Pete Sinfield - Carmen Squire - Chandrika Squire - Nikki Squire - Vangelis - Adam Wakeman - Benjamin Wakeman - Jemma Wakeman - Tim Weidner - Jesse White
Damion was in a band project called Vincent Kane,
consisting of Damion (lead vocals), Drew Lowe (guitar, backing
vocals), Colin
Parkinson (Darkroom Project;
bass, backing vocals), Lucas Van Rensburg VIII (drums).
However, the other three are
now in new band Circles
without Damion.
In an Oct
2009 interview, dad Jon said of Damion:
My son just went into the
studio for the first time. He's been writing good songs forever,
but he's never gone in to record correct. He's always in with a
band [...] Now he's figured it out and is doing it right.
| Deborah's latest project, due around May 2012, is
"Aroused: The
Lost Sensuality of a Woman" (Twitter), a
feature documentary and photography art book about 16
adult industry performers: Jesse Jane, Belladonna,
Katsuni, Allie Haze, Kayden Kross, April O'Neil, Francesca
Lé, Lisa Ann, Brooklyn Lee, Alexis Texas, Asphyxia
Noir, Teagan Presley, Ash Hollywood, Tanya Tate, Lexi
Belle and Misty Stone. Her next project is to shoot a "lost city" in Africa. In Jan 2012, she shot actress Gina Gershon for the cover of Gershon's debut novel. Silence (Somis Sound/LILACREATIVE Inc.) was her 10-track debut solo album, released 2008. It is available in physical form from the Somis Sound store and digitally (including US and UK iTunes). The music was largely recorded by Deborah using Apple's GarageBand software on vocals, percussion, piano, guitar and synth. The album was co-produced by Deborah and Erik "E-Rok" Richards (Somis Sound), who also mixed the album and performs on synths, double and electric bass, and loops. Deborah and E-Rok also duet on accordions on "Learn to Love". Mastering and, on "Bitter Taste", "Good Enough" and "Breathe", additional keys and programming are by Tyler Sherman. There was an accompanying coffee table book, "Paperthin" (Verlhac, first print limited edition of 1000 copies, with copy of CD included). The book consists of Deborah's black and white photography based on 1930s erotica, with models including Minnie Driver (Deborah previously did photography work for Driver's solo album Seastories), Fergie, P!nk, Natasha Henstridge, Tilda Swinton, Sophie Dahl and sister Jade. Dahl also wrote a short article on female sensuality for the book. The book's images are accompanied by lyrics from the album, while a digibooklet with selected photos is available with the purchase of the album from iTunes. The basis for "Paperthin" was Deborah's first photographic exhibition, "Hollywood Erotique", in 2004 in Los Angeles, CA. Deborah has also been doing other photographic work,
including continuing to work with P!nk (she shot the album
cover for Funhouse and further work). She is Art
Director for the Gansevoort Hotel Group and has set up
LILACREATIVE Inc. to cover her creative output. In
mid-2010, she signed to PR and branding company The Burgett Group. |
Jade has been finishing her second solo album in Los Angeles;
this was expected 2010, but has yet to appear. She can be heard
singing "Stars" on a promotional video for a calendar she
co-produced with sister Deborah. In May
2011, she uploaded a set of video
performances to YouTube.
She had been writing material with Future Cut (Darren
Lewis and Tunde Babalola; worked with Lily Allen,
Natasha Beddingfield, Kelis), Paul Statham
(worked with Shelly Poole, Sophie Ellis-Bextor) and
others. One of Jade's song with Statham, "Chasing Butterflies",
was to be heard on streaming audio on her MySpace page.
Also available there were demos entitled "How Many Days",
"'Life'", "Give It Up" and "Love Without Gold". A 2007 demo
entitled "Tell Me" is now there. At the end of 2007, she began
working with Leo Z (MySpace page; Leonardo
De Bernadini; worked with Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli)
on an album. (I am unclear whether this will build on the earlier
work with Statham and Future Cut or is a fresh start.) Her MySpace
page reported that she is also writing material for other artists.
The MySpace page has featured "On the Run", "Your Name", "Tell
Me", "Laughing", "Before It Starts Again...", "Life", "Come and
Get Me...", "Love Without Gold", "Love" and "Time...".
On 27 Apr 2011, Jade tweeted about singing in the studio with Snow Patrol, seemingly as
part of sessions for their new album.
Jade also works as an actress and model. She has a new
documentary project entitled "The Divine9 Project".
Berlin has released a new album, High Standards, on his own MAJ Records label with
himself (electric bass), Richard Drexler (Woody
Herman Orchestra; piano, upright bass) and Danny
Gottlieb (Pat Metheny; drums). In Sep/Oct 2011,
Berlin is touring the US in a trio with Scott Henderson (Tribal
Tech, ex-Joe Zawinul, ex-Chick Corea's Elektric Band; guitar)
and Mike Clark
(ex-Herbie Hancock, ex-Wayne Shorter; drums). The
tour is booked by Leonardo Pavkovic and PR is by Billy James.
Berlin runs The Players School of Music in Florida.
Brislin remains a keyboardist, singer and songwriter with his own
band Spiraling, with Paul
Wells (drums), Marty O'Kane (guitar), Bob Hart (bass).
Brislin played a solo show on 15 Jul 2011 in Nashville, TN, to
include material from his next CD, Hurry Up and Smell the Roses, as well as older
material and covers. Brislin joined the opening act Kurt Michaels, who
performed material from his new album, Soaring Back to Earth, on two tracks of which
Brislin guests—see details under Billy
Sherwood, who also guests. He is now working on his debut
solo album and has
sought fan investment for the project.
Al drums in The Infadels
(MySpace page),
along side Bnann Watts (vocals), Matt Gooderson (guitar,
electronics), Wag Marshall-Page (bass) and Richie Vermin
(electronic, percussion). The band play live regularly.
The band's second album, Universe
in Reverse, is out and was produced by Martin "Youth" Glover
(Killing Joke,
Transmission, ex-System 7).
Nina runs her training company, Nina's
People Limited. She is working on her autobiography, saying
in
Jun
2007 that, "I've written three chapters and am looking for
a publisher."
Clifford continues to work with the Rolling Stones.
Colbeck played with the group Charlie in the late
1970s. A partial reunion of the band under Terry Thomas, with
Colbeck and Martin Smith (slide guitar) has produced the new album
Kitchens of Distinction
(Voiceprint), released 2009.
Voiceprint have re-released Back to Bach (VP522CD) by Julian Colbeck with Jonathan Cohen (originally released in 1992). The album features re-workings of Bach's fugues, while guests guitarist Steve Hackett (working with Chris Squire, ex-Genesis, ex-GTR), Milton McDonald (worked with ABWH, The Spice Girls), John Keeble (Spandau Ballet), Mary Hopkin and Brian Keenan.
Dean has continued to do cover art for Yes
(including In the Present, Live from Lyon) and Asia (including a forthcoming 30th anniversary re-release of Asia and the band's next studio album, XXX). He is offering a limited edition
of 36 Roger Dean Collectors Edition copies of Fly from Here, consisting of the usual deluxe
box set plus a limited edition 12"x12" signed and numbered
etching of the new Yes dragon logo (only available with this
Collectors Edition) and a unique, signed and numbered
watercolour and ink painting for each copy. These are only
available through the San
Francisco Art Exchange, who also sell some of Dean's work.
He continues to work on his film project, "Floating Islands"—details on main page. Dean is
designing landscapes based on his art for a virtual reality
project from new company Virtual Space
Entertainment. He describes the project in a Mar
2008
interview for YesFANZ.
In terms of architectural work, in the Mar 2008 interview, Dean describes plans for 3 or 4 houses in Hawaii and for other projects, including possibly a hotel.
Dunnery's The New Progressives Tour featuring
The Brand New It Bites consisted of UK dates in Oct/Nov 2010. The
New Progressives project will re-record and tour material by
Dunnery's former band It Bites, and more. The core band are
Francis Dunnery (vocals, guitar), Tom
Brislin (Spiraling, ex-The Syn, worked with Yes,
Camel; keys), Brett
Kull (echolyn;
guitar, engineer, mix), Paul Ramsey (echolyn; drums)
and Jamie Bishop
(bass), i.e. most of the
backing band for The Syn's 2009 live dates.
There's a Whole New World Out There is a new 2CD album with the same core line-up and along similar lines, mostly re-recordings of old It Bites ("Kiss Like Judas", "Old Man & the Angel", "Hunting the Whale", "Underneath Your Pillow", "Sister Sarah", "Yellow Christian", "Murder of Planet Earth") and Dunnery solo material, but also including a cover of Genesis' "Back in NYC". John Mitchell (It Bites, Kino, Frost*, Arena, ex-John Wetton, ex-iCon; guitar), Theo Travis (Soft Machine Legacy, The Tangent, Travis & Fripp, ex-Gong, ex-Porcupine Tree; sax) and Simon Rogers (Also Eden) guest.
Dunnery is working with Dave Kerzner (working with Steven Wilson, Simon Collins, worked with Jon Anderson, ex-Giraffe) of the Sonic Reality music software development company on the Sonic Elements project(s)—see details on the main page.
Now out is Prayer Cycle: Path to Zero
(PR page), released by
Across the Universe Records (audio
sample here). This 7-track, "classically-influenced" album
was written and produced by Elias. Nearly 5 years in the making, Path to Zero is a sequel to
1999's The
Prayer Cycle and also a benefit album, with all
proceeds to anti-nuclear weapons organisation Global Zero. Tracks:
Q:
What
exactly
went wrong on the Yes-album Union that you produced in 1991?
[...]
A: I didn’t realize how dark the baggage was within that band
and how much they hated each other... I knew they had broken
up many times and shuffled members in and out, I didn’t
realize the reason that that happened was because of their
egos and personal feelings for each other. I honestly believe
I was the central focus of hatred for Rick Wakeman and Steve
Howe, who couldn’t stand each other. Even though Jon Anderson
was the co-producer of the record, and was constantly urging
me to work with other players, which we subsequently did, he
took none of the heat because they were so scared of him. I
also urged Rick to play a Hammond and not his cheezy midi
synthesizers. He didn’t realize the best work they had done
was done 20 years earlier. [...] I also find it interesting
that 20 years later that Jon is on my new Prayer Cycle follow
up record and has nothing to do with the band anymore. I think
that speaks volumes.
Foster's autobiography, "Yours is
No Disgrace", is expected at some point from his webpage.
The four original members of Unruly Child—Gowdy
(guitar), Guy Allison (ex-World Trade; keys), Jay Schellen (GPS, ex-CIRCA:, ex-Asia, ex-Conspiracy, ex-World Trade, ex-Peter Banks; drums,
percussion), Marcie
Michelle (formerly Mark) Free (ex-King Kobra;
vocals)—have re-united to record a new album, Worlds Collide (Frontiers Records), due 15 Oct
in Europe and 26 Oct in the US. Larry Antonio (MySpace page;
worked with Air Supply, Ambrosia, Ricky Martin) is on
bass. The album was reportedly to be written by
Gowdy/Allison/Free. Cover by Hugh Syme (worked with Rush,
Whitesnake). Tracks: "Show Me the Money", "Insane",
"When We were Young", "Tell Another Lie", "Love is Blind", "When
Worlds Collide", "Talk to Me", "Life Death", "Read My Mind",
"Neverland", "Very First Time", "You Don't Understand". The band
are considering touring in support, probably summer 2011. A video for
"Very First Time" is available.
The band has material in
preparation for a follow-up album, but are focusing first on a
re-mixed and expanded version of Free's 1996 solo album, Tormented, with bonus tracks and new
material. They are also seeking rights to their first album in
order to re-release it.
Gowdy continues
to work with Mercedes.
He produced her debut album Rock-n-Soul Blvd. Gowdy also produced The Day the World
Awoke by Marcus Eaton and The Lobby. Gowdy continues to
work as a producer and songwriter for albums and TV/film.
| Larry Groupé
- orchestral arrangements/conducting on Magnification/YesSymphonic.
Official website;
Current
projects Groupé writes music for film, TV, CD-ROMs etc. A recent score was for the re-make of the thriller "Straw Dogs", out 16 Sep in the US. The film was directed, produced and written by Rod Lurie and is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film, which in turn was based on the Gordon Williams novel "The Siege of Trencher's Farm". A score album is released in the US on 13 Sep. Groupé previously did scores for Lurie's films "Deterrence" and "The Contender". Groupé recently won the 2011 Emmy for Best Original Score - Short Subject Film for "Residue", a documentary about US involvement in Cambodia, directed by Jared Davis. He also did the score to "Hold at All Costs", a TV documentary about the Korean War for PBS. |
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Haun was involved in a serious road traffic accident in early Jan
2011. However, he is now recovering well. In Jul 2011, he said on
Facebook: "Just an update. I'm doing so much better. Physical
therapy has been a long road but a success and I can finally play
again."
Haun was formerly in CIRCA:, with Billy Sherwood, Tony Kaye and Jay Schellen—see here for details. Haun, Sherwood and Kaye also combined forces with Bobby Kimball (ex-Toto) in Yoso, but Haun then left Yoso and CIRCA: to concentrate on his commercial work.
Haun works for Elias Arts—details under Elias. Haun and Jonathan Elias were working with Jimmy's daughter, Lindsey Haun (MySpace page), on her singing career.
Haun recorded some material in the first incarnation of The Key, with Billy Sherwood, around 1992. One of their songs, co-written by Haun/Sherwood, is, in a new version, on Sherwood's next solo album.
Aaron works as a producer. He has been working with Arrows of
Love, which includes Kid
Harpoon (worked with Trevor Horn) on bass and
grew out of the disbanded Hush the Many (Heed the Few), who had
also been working with Aaron. Other production work includes an EP
for Hungry Man
and a forthcoming EP from The Train
Chronicles. He also been doing remixing with Goldierocks for acts
including The Kooks, Crystal Fighter, Holloways and Ou Est Le
Swimming Pool? (worked with Trevor Horn).
The Creators Project
sponsored an attempt
to write and record an EP in five days by Aaron Horn (drum
programming), Rossano Snel
(keys) and Eugene
Derek Hong (synth, bass), possibly under the band name ERA.
The producer is Mike Beck (worked with Owl City, Neil
Sedaka). A finished piece is available
on SoundCloud.
Aaron also DJs regularly in London. Various of his own pieces can
be heard on his website and MySpace page.
Aaron, Daniel Cross (Record-Play music consultancy) and Jo Maeva set up a record label called TAPE in early 2009, which is administrated through Stiff Records (sister label to dad Trevor's ZTT). Their launch event was in Sep 2009 in London. Aaron is CEO of Mai Plues music publishing company, which is administed by Unforgettable Songs. Aaron was interviewed by Zoë Street Howe (Steve Howe's daughter-in-law) for her new book "How's Your Dad? Living in the Shadow of a Rock Star Parent"—see here.
| Dylan
Howe leads a number of related line-ups. He
has been working with pianist Will
Butterworth (MySpace
page) as Stravinsky Duo
playing arranagements of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"
and "The Firebird". In a Nov
2009 article, Butterworth described the shows as "50
per cent scored arrangement and 50 per cent improvisation".
They played in the UK live and their debut album, The Rite of Spring Part 1
(Motorik
Recordings), is out in the US and UK; it can also be
heard through their MySpace
page on streaming audio. Tracks: "Introduction 1",
"Introduction 2", "The Augurs of Spring 1", "The Augurs of
Spring 2", "Mock Abduction 1", "Mock Abduction 2", "Spring
Round Dances", "Games of the Rival Tribes", "Procession of
the Wise Elders", "Dance of the Earth". In the liner notes,
Dylan thanks his parents and Yes; a Jan
2010 article explains, "Howe traces his enthusiasm for
Stravinsky to the time when Yes used Firebird Suite as
an intro tape". A Part 2
covering "The Firebird" has been expected and a DVD covering
a specially filmed performance of "The Rite of Spring" is
due soon. In an interview
c. Jul 2011, Howe
said: I first heard
Stravinsky at a very young age because the finale of the
Firebird Suite was Yes' intro music and I had wanted to
do something with it at some point. I started playing
with [...] Will Butterworth and we often played duo
together to practice so it felt right to see if we could
adapt The Rite Of Spring and Firebird together.
We spent a year on it using the original orchestra score, the Two Hands reduction score and Leonard Bernstein’s 1950's recording as a definitive version. I really like where we went with it and I think the new DVD will show how it has evolved even from our recent 2010 recording. We're also working on expanding it with a quartet or quintet this year so it's quite an organic thing The Dylan Howe Qu4rtet—D. Howe (drums), Tim Thornton (double bass), Ross Stanley (Steve Howe Trio, Brandon Allen Trio, ex-Jamie Cullum; piano, synths), Brandon Allen (Dylan Howe & The Subterraneans; tenor sax)—played a UK tour Feb/Mar 2011. The 18 Mar show in Chatham was a quintet with Steve Fishwick (Steve Fishwick Quartet; trumpet), Paul Booth (sax) and Tom Cawley (piano), while the 31 Mar show featured a first set by the Stravinsky Duo. A live DVD from the tour, a show at Pizza Express Dean Street in London, is due. Further dates follow Sep 2011-Jan 2012, with a line-up of Howe, Fishwick, Mark Hodgson (double bass) and Tom Cawley (piano) at a Sep show, Howe, Stanley, Hodgson and Allen at an Oct show; and a quintet with Howe, Hodgson, Fishwick, Cawley and Paul Booth (tenor sax) in Jan. In the aforementioned 2011 interview, Howe said: "My next moves are to finish an album of my David Bowie (Berlin period) adaptations and release that maybe this year [2011] and to complete writing an album of original material." Dylan Howe & The Subterraneans is a project consisting of music inspired and based on David Bowie's albums Low and Heroes, and also influenced by Phillip Glass' adaptations of the same source material. Arrangements are by Howe/Ross Stanley, while the band has included a jazz sextet (based on Howe's earlier Quintet), Adrian Utley (Portishead), Gilad Atzmon (alto sax), a string section (initially announced to be The Neukoln Strings) and guest vocalists. There have been plans for artwork and projections to be done by Sir Peter Blake; demo artwork so far has been by Howe. Robert Wyatt (ex-Soft Machine) may also work with the group. In Mar/Apr 2007, they recorded demos of four pieces ("Art Decade", "Warszawa", "V2 Schneider", "Some Are"), which can be heard on their MySpace page. "Warszawa" was also included on Howe's Translations 2. Produced by Howe, these recordings featured a quintet of Howe/Stanley/Hill/Collins/Allen, with Utley, Atzmon, Ben Davis (cello), Nalyd Ewoh (vocals on "Some Are"). There was a "work in progress" launch in Nov 2007 in London with a line-up of D. Howe, Stanley, Hill, Robson, Sam Crockatt (sax) with Utley, Atzmon, The Solid Strings (Sonia Slany—violin, Stuart Hall—violin, Steve Tees—viola, Nick Cooper—cello), Tim Dickinson (vocals), plus Hugh Cornwell (ex-The Stranglers) as featured guest vocalist. Dylan Howe and Ross Stanley also continue in the Steve Howe Trio with Dylan's father, Steve. He continues to play with Wilko Johnson's trio. Johnson was formerly in Dr. Feelgood and The Blockheads, and the trio is rounded out by bassist Norman Watt-Roy, still currently in The Blockheads. They tour the UK 15 Sep-9 Oct, as well as scattered other dates, and are working on a new album. They appeared on the BBC's Later... With Jools Holland on 27 Sep. |
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| Virgil Howe - Steve's son; MySpace page;
MySpace (as
Sparo); MySpace
(as The Verge); SoundCloud Virgil performs on drums and vocals in London-based guitar trio Little Barrie (Japanese site; MySpace; Facebook; Twitter). The others in the band are Barrie Cadogan (worked with Primal Scream, Morrissey, Paul Weller, St Etienne, The Chemical Brothers; vocals, guitar) and Lewis Wharton (bass, vocals). Their new album, produced by Edwyn Collins, is called King of the Waves; tracks: "Surf Hell" (first single and used on Channel 4's Sirens series), "How Come", "Does the Halo Rust", "Precious Pressure", "King of the Waves", "Now We're Nowhere", "Dream to Live", "Tip It Over", "I Can't Wait", "New Diamond Love", "Money in Paper" (Collins on backing vocals). The band play live. In Oct 2008 in London, Virgil Howe played his first solo show, with Amorphous Androgynous, The Future Sound of London side-project, as the backing band. On vocals were expected to be wife Jen Howe, Karime Kendra (The Killer Meters) and Dave Sanderson. Virgil was also playing with Amorphous Androgynous. He drummed in the band for a recording of "Falling Down", written by Noel Gallagher (ex-Oasis), used on the cover disc of Mojo magazine Feb 2010 issue. (The track also features Kerim Gunes on bass, who plays with Howe in The Dirty Feel—see below.) Virgil Howe is working with a number of other acts. The Dirty Feel (MySpace page) consists of Virgil (drums, vocals), Kerim 'Kez' Gunes (worked with Amorphous Androgynous; bass, vocals) and Nick Hirsch (guitar, vocals). The band play mainly in and around London, but also across the UK. The Killer Meters consists of Karime Kendra (daughter of Ty Karim and Kent Harris; vocals), Henry Broadbent (keys) and Stephen Wilcox (sax) and all three members of The Dirty Feel. They seem to have begun as a tribute act to The Meters, but moved on to original material. Breakin' Out (Breakin Bread BNB 052) is out in the UK and features the previously released singles "Dance Move Shake!" (b/w "Black Mountain") and "Freak" (b/w "Stomp"). Tracks: "Consolidation Blues", "Freak", "Dance Move Shake!", "Say Dirty", "Tropical", "Desperate Times", "Come Back", "High Low", "Cramp Your Style" (cover of song by All the People feat. Robert Moore), "Change Your Mind", "Black Mountain", "I Aint Lyin" (cover of song by Ty Karim), "Stomp (Part 1)", "Stomp (Part 2)", "Rainbow Of Love". Mar 2011 saw a single release on Breakin Bread (BNB064) with an A-side of Virgil Howe & Shawn Lee's "Electronic Brain Break" and a B-side of Virgil's "Go Go Gadget Break". |
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Jeczalik has retired from the music business.
an album does need to be an expression of where you are musically, sonically, socially, politically etc. at the time. 'Legacy' was started in 1995 and much of it was conceived then; unfortunately, the sonic choices I would make in 2007 are quite different from the ones I made in 1995. Furthermore, a solo album would be a different animal than a UK album - even if I did compose all of it myself. Songs were written with John in mind, not to mention possible guitar parts for Holdsworth, Fripp and others.And:There is also an ownership issue with some of the recordings which will render some performances unusable.
It is clear to me that any usable compositional ideas and performances that, legally, I still have full rights to should be reviewed and probably reworked to reflect twelve years of further technical and musical growth.
UKZ and U-Z play UK
material live.
Archival/online releases
In the 1980s, Jobson worked on a follow-up to his 1983 The Green Album, to be called
The Pink Album, but the
project was never finished. One piece from the album,
"Antarctica", was released through his Zealots' Lounge
subscription website. To a fan after the 23 Apr 2011 UK show,
Jobson said he had plans to release the album. Further bits and
bobs from Jobson's career have been released through the Zealots'
Lounge site.
Jordan is still performing.
Langan continues to work with Trevor Horn on various projects—see under Horn. The second Buggles album, Adventures in Modern Recording, which Langan largely engineered, was re-released on CD with multiple bonus tracks, and Langan did front of house sound for the one-off Buggles show in Sep 2010: see under Horn.
Lasarenko
is
creative director (New York) at Elias
Associates, leading the company with brothers Scott and
Jonathan
Elias. He continues to work doing music
for films and commercials.
However, Levin's
main project at present is Stick Men, with Levin (Chapman Stick,
vocals), Pat Mastelotto (KTU, ex-King Crimson,
The Flower Kings; drums, percussion, vocals) and Markus
Reuter (works with Mastelotto; touch-style
guitars).
Levin was in
the last line-up of King
Crimson, with Mastelotto (percussion), Robert Fripp
(guitar), Adrian Belew
(guitar, keys, vocals) and Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree; drums).
The band played a short tour of the eastern US in Aug 2008, but
have not worked since and comments from Fripp in Dec 2009
suggested the band has now ceased operations permanently. News of
archival Crimson releases is under Bruford.
While King Crimson is inactive, Levin is involved in a number of Crimson spin-offs. Sep/Oct 2011 saw the Two of a Perfect Trio tour of the US/Canada with sets by the Stick Men (towards 1 hour long), then by the Adrian Belew Power Trio (Belew—guitar, Julie Slick—bass, Tobias Ralph—drums; set towards 1 hour long), then Belew/Levin/Mastelotto play a few King Crimson pieces, and eventually all 6 musicians play some further Crimson material. In all, the total Crimson set is ~1 hour long. Sets have varied from night to night. As examples, the Stick Men set list in Carrboro was "Smudge", "Soup", "Breathless" (from Robert Fripp's Exposure), "Slow Glide", "Relentless", their cover of Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" in 4 movements; set list in Phoenixville: "Smudge", "Supercollider", "Slow Glide", "Breathless", "Relentless", "Firebird Suite"; the set in San Franciso included "VROOM VROOOM". The Adrian Belew Power Trio set includes material from Belew's albums Young Lions, Inner Revolution, Op Zop Too Wah and e; in San Franciso, they included a King Crimson tune. Belew/Levin/Mastelotto have played pieces including "3 of a Perfect Pair", "Elephant Talk" and "Sleepless". In San Franciso, they were then joined by Reuter for "Red". "Red" was not played on the opening night. At some other shows, I think it was played by the full 6-piece band. Crimson material played by all 6 has included "B'Boom", "Thrak", "Dinosaur", "Frame by Frame", "Indiscipline", "Thela Hun Ginjeet". The opening night had an attendance of ~500. Alan White attended the Seattle show.
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also previously held the 3 of a Perfect
Pair Camp in Aug 2011. The trio played an associated
show on 25 Aug, largely of King Crimson pieces,
including "3 of a Perfect Pair", "Elephant Talk",
"Frame by Frame", "Indiscipline", "Thela Hun Ginjeet",
"Sleepless", "Dinosaur", "One Time", "Thrak" and "Red".
Partway through the show, they were joined by Slick and
Ralph for a preview of the Two of a Perfect Trio tour. A second Camp is planned
for summer 2012. Out is A Scarcity of Miracles, by Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins. The album is labelled a King Crimson ProjeKct, reflecting its ties to the band. The line-up consists of Jakko M Jakszyk (ex-21st Century Schizoid Band, worked with Dave Stewart; guitars, vocals, keys, guzheng), Robert Fripp (guitar, Soundscapes) and Mel Collins (ex-21st Century Schizoid Band, ex-King Crimson, worked with Chris Squire; alto and soprano saxophone, flute) with Tony Levin (bass, Stick) and Gavin Harrison (drums, percussion). Tracks:
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Meanwhile, Levin
(bass, Stick) and Mastelotto (drums, percussion, electronics) are
also working in HoBoLeMa, an improvisational group with drummer Terry Bozzio (ex-UK, ex-Bozzio Levin Stevens,
ex-Frank Zappa) and guitarist Allan Holdsworth
(ex-UK, ex-Gong, ex-Soft Machine, ex-Level 42). They
toured the US and Europe in 2010.
Levin or Levin and Mastelotto have sporadically been joining the
California Guitar Trio
live. Levin and Mastelotto are among guests on the Trio's album, Echoes, while
Levin played live with them in Aug 2010 in New Zealand.
L'Image were formed in the mid-1970s, consisting of Levin, Steve
Gadd, Mike Mainieri, Warren Bernhardt (sometimes joined by David
Spinozza on guitar live). The band soon split up, but reconvened
to record their debut album, 2.0,
in Oct 2008. The album is now out. The band played the US in 2009
and Europe in 2010. The band are now recording a second album,
planned for a summer 2011 release to coincide with further touring
in Jul.
Levin guests on 2 tracks of Grace for Drowning, the new
solo album from Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Blackfield,
worked with King Crimson, Caravan). Other guests on the
album include Steve Hackett (Squackett,
ex-Genesis, ex-GTR), Dave Kerzner
(working with Billy Sherwood,
worked with Jon Anderson, ex-Giraffe),
Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater), Theo Travis
(Gong, The Tangent, Soft Machine Legacy, worked with Robert
Fripp), Pat Mastelotto (Stick Men, ex-King
Crimson), Trey Gunn (UKZ,
ex-King Crimson), Dave Stewart (ex-Bruford,
ex-National Health, ex-Hatfield and the North), Nick Beggs (Steve
Hackett, Kajagoogoo, ex-Steve Howe, ex-Iona) and Markus
Reuter (Stick Men). The album charted at #34 in the
UK (2 Oct) and #22 in the Netherlands. It has been nominated for the Best Surround
Sound Grammy.
Levin
has long worked with Peter
Gabriel. Gabriel is planning to re-release
his solo catalogue, most of which Levin plays on, with bonus
tracks etc.
Ronan Chris Murphy (worked with Alan White, King Crimson, Bozzio/Levin/Stevens, Mars Hollow) is working on his debut solo album with Levin (bass, stick), Mastelotto (drums), Bozzio (drums) and Mike Keneally (Steve Vai, ex-Frank Zappa, ex-Stanley Snail; keys).
In Feb
2007, Geoff Downes described
a prog rock project with himself on keys, Levin, Michael
Holmes (IQ),
Nick D'Virgilio (Spock's Beard, ex-Genesis), Thomas
Lang (ex-John Wetton; drums) and
Rob Aubrey (worked with Wetton/Downes;
engineer)—see
more under Downes. The
project is not expected until 2012.
Levin (bass), D'Virgilio
(drums), Martin Orford (ex-IQ; flute) and Gary Chandler (Jadis;
guitar) all guest on Steve Thorne's latest solo album, Crimes &
Reasons, due 2012.
Levin has done numerous other sessions. His website lists many further session appearances.
McDonald appears on Julian Colbeck's 1992 Back to Bach, re-released in
2009—details under Colbeck.
Macchia was nominated in the Best Instrumental Arranger category
of the Grammys
for a piece from his album Landscapes,
but lost to Thomas Newman for his work on the "WALL-E" score.
Mancina is doing soundtrack work.
Offord lives in South Carolina and
has largely retired from the music business, although he does
occasional engineer and production work.
Porcaro continues to do soundtrack work.
Nomadic Sands by Lodgic, featuring brothers Billy and Michael Sherwood, has been re-released by YesterRock. Porcaro co-produced the album. Details under Billy.
Preskett
writes
music for TV, film and adverts, as well as doing session work.
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Ryan drums in and produces Grouplove (MySpace; Facebook). The
rest of the group are Christian Zucconi (lead vocals,
guitar), Sean Gadd (bass), Hannah Hooper
(worked with Trevor
Rabin; vocals, keys, artwork) and Ryan's
childhood friend, Andrew Wessen (lead guitar); they are
managed by Nicky and Ben Berger. The band have toured the
US, Europe and Australia in 2010/1. An eponymous EP is
out; tracks: "Colours" (debut single), "Naked Kids",
"Goldcoast" (written by Zucconi/Hooper/R. Rabin/Gadd),
"Getaway Car", "Dont Say Oh Well", "Get Giddy". "Gold
Coast" appeared in the film "The
Sorcerer's
Apprentice", produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and for
which dad
Trevor did the score. The EP was recorded in
Trevor's garage while
the band were staying at his house. (Zucconi plays a
white acoustic Yairi guitar of Trevor's as well.)
"Colours" made #18 in the US Alternative chart and #32
in the US Rock chart; it also made #47 in the Canadian
Alternative chart. Their debut album, Never Trust a Happy Song
(Atlantic), is out and made #21 in Australia; it was recorded in
Ryan's apartment in Los Angeles, CA, and was mixed by
Michael H Brauer. In a Sep
2011 interview with Arlene Weiss, Ryan described the
songwriting process for the album: It just depends on the
song. Several songs on this album were originally
partial old demo’s Christian had kept from his past,
that we then reinterpreted as a band. [...] Sometimes
Hannah or Sean or Andrew will have a similar raw lyric
or melody idea that the others take and reinterpret, or
add on to. It’s very collaborative and everyone’s
writing roles shift around in each song. [...] Sometimes it started
with a little verse idea from Sean, or an old demo idea
from Christian. Sometimes I would just hear melodies
working over someone else’s guitar line and I’d sing
them to the others and they’d learn to play them and
then that would become a lead guitar solo or synth line.
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Phyllis is retired. Their MySpace page has several songs by the couple's band.
The late Bobby Sherwood's big band charts, thought lost for many
years, have been located. Their elder son, Michael,
has produced and conducted the music with a 16-piece big band,
with Bobby's nephew, trumpeter Carl Saunders.
The Bobby
Sherwood MySpace page has samples.
Michael Sherwood's has been working in Kite with Ted Jacobs
(presumably a new name for their band Ju-Ju).
He
is
also in GLP
with Christian
Nesmith (son of and worked with Michael Nesmith; guitar)
and
the
two now have a MySpace
page as NezWood with multiple songs. Other band members in
GLP include Tom Felicetta, Chirstopher "Topher" Allis (Elias Arts; drums) and Steve McCormick.
Earlier in 2007, he had four pieces on streaming audio at his MySpace page: "Face
of the Sun" with Nesmith and "Pearblossom Highway", "Numbers Game"
and "Everybody's Watching" with Ted Jacobs. The site then had
"Pearblossom Highway", "Numbers Game" and two new pieces, "Almost
Perfect Love" and "The Ship", all credited to Kite. There are now
two further unlabelled pieces, "This Blue World" and "6 Days from
Sunday". The latter song and another, "The Upside", were used on
the TV series Scrubs in
2006. M. Sherwood (keys), Nesmith (guitars) and Allis (drums) are
all also in singer Circe Link's
band (MySpace page).
M. Sherwood did the score for the film "West of Brooklyn".
Singer/songwriter Audra Mae is Michael
and Billy Sherwood's grandniece (and Judy Garland's great
grandniece). A 5-song EP, Haunt,
featured Michael on keyboards and Ryan Rabin
(Trevor's son; ex-The Outline) on drums. (3 of the EP's
songs were re-recorded for her album, The Happiest Lamb.)
M. Sherwood guests on Kurt
Michaels' forthcoming third solo album, Soaring Back to Earth, now
out—see under Billy Sherwood, who
also guests.
In Jun 2006, Jill Sinclair was accidentally hit in the neck with an air rifle pellet while in her garden. As a result, Sinclair has been unresponsive in a coma since.
Sinfield is working on a new solo album, entitled Thread to
Heaven, co-produced by Poli Palmer. In a Jan 2008 blog, Jakko M. Jakszyk talked of
writing for the album. He may also be working with the David Cross/Andrew
Keeling collaboration.
The King Crimson Collectors' Club includes several releases including lyrics from Sinfield. Further details about the Club are under Bruford. Esoteric have re-released a 2CD remastered and expanded version of Sinfield's solo album Still on the Manticore imprint (mantcd21003). this includes the two bonus tracks from the 1994 Stillusion expanded re-release and further early mixes. Tracks: CD1, the album mix—"The Song of the Sea Goat", "Under the Sky", "Will It be You", "Wholefood Boogie", "Still", "Envelopes of Yesterday", "The Piper", "A House of Hopes and Dreams", "The Night People"; CD2, early mixes and bonus tracks—"Hanging Fire" (previously released on Stillusion), "Still (first mix)", "The Song of the Sea Goat", "Under the Sky", "Wholefood Boogie", "Envelopes of Yesterday", "The Piper", "A House of Hopes and Dreams", "The Night People", "Still (second mix)", "Can You Forgive a Fool?"(previously released on Stillusion).
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Squire - Chris's daughter; Yakety
Yak page
Carmen Squire works as an actress, primarily doing voice-over work. She also writes and sings. Carmen is in Astrella
Celeste's band (MySpace
page). Astrella (Donovan Leitch's
daughter) has released the single "Dream" and EP
Blue Star, both on Donovan Discs, in the US and UK.
"Dream" and material on Blue Star were co-written
by Kevin Hunter (Sheryl Crow) and
produced by Yoad
Nevo (worked with Sugababes and
Goldfrapp). The band consists of Astrella
(vocals), Carmen (backing vocals, rhythm guitar live), Rat
Scabies (ex-The Damned; drums),
Andy Hobson (The Pretenders; bass),
Nevo (guitar, mandolin), Ofer Shabi (guitar), Joe Atkinson
(Hammond), Colin Graham (Mica Paris; trumpet,
flugelhorn) and Fayyaz Virji (trombone). Chandrika Squire - Chris's daughter No current info |
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Nikki Squire is guesting on a forthcoming album entitled The Hope from Mark Trueack, the vocalist from Australian progressive rock band Unitopia. The album is co-directed by Stephen Layton (worked with Jon Anderson, ex-The Expression, ex-Like Oxygen) and Jon Anderson also guests: details under Anderson here.
Nikki Squire (vocals) and Nigel McLaren (bass, backing vocals)
re-formed Esquire
and have been working on some new material in London with Robbie
Blunt (ex-Robert Plant; guitar), Lisa LaRue (MySpace page; worked
with
John Payne, Gilli Smyth, Tommy Zvoncheck; keys) and
others. Seven pieces are available as digital downloads from their MySpace page:
"Stay Low" (with LaRue and backing vocals by Master Cassian
Munro), "Where is the Love", "Ministry of Life", "Friends &
Enemies", "She Said" (with Blunt), "It's Over", "Tonight" (with
Blunt). Most of there can also be heard as streaming files.
There is also some unreleased Esquire material from over the
years which could be released. She was interviewed in Notes from the
Edge #232, in which she discussed some other possible
forthcoming projects.
Vangelis did the music for the
film "El Greco".
He has also set up the Vangelis Foundation For Research,
Music and Science.
Headspace (MySpace page; YouTube channel) consists of Adam Wakeman (keys), Damian Wilson (ex-Rick Wakeman, ex-Jeronimo Road; vocals), Pete Rinaldi (guitar), Lee Pomeroy (ex-Rick Wakeman; bass), Richard Brook (The London Music School, ex-Victoria Beckham; drums). Their debut 4-track EP, I Am... (HDSPC02), is out and available to buy online; tracks can also be heard on their MySpace page. Their debut concept album is due around Sep/Oct 2011. The band have played several UK/Ireland dates, mainly supporting Ozzy Osbourne (with whom Adam also plays). Their set list in Jun/Jul 2008 was "Never Let Go", "Bodysuit", "Sane Life", "Wasted Apology and Sober".
Adam was reported to be working on a remix album, in a dance/chill out style, of tracks that he has produced.
Adam is in Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's band. Adam co-wrote 5 songs on Osbourne's 2010 album Scream with Osbourne and producer Kevin Churko, and plays on the whole album, which debuted at #12 in the UK chart (27 Jun; #1 in the Rock chart). He also regularly tours with Travis and with Will Young.
No current info
Congratulations to Jemma who
gave birth to a daughter, Melody, in late July 2011.
Jemma is a songwriter, pianist and vocalist, with a publishing
and recording contract. She sang backing vocals and some lead on
her father Rick's albums Retro and
Retro 2, and on his CD and DVD Amazing Grace—see details under Rick.
Oscar is credited as a camera operator on dad
Rick's new Face to Face DVD series. He is raising
money for the Lymphoma Association.
Weidner has been working with Trevor Horn as an
engineer, mixer and/or programmer on a variety of projects,
including Jeff Beck's Emotion
& Commotion—see details
under Horn. Most notably, he has engineered and mixed Yes's
new album, Fly from Here, produced
by Horn.
Jesse assisted Klaus Badelt on
the score for the new disaster movie "Poseidon".
A score album is out. Jesse works as a ProTools operator for
Trevor Rabin.
Any additions/corrections, please e-mail Henry Potts. Thanks to all those who have—this site would not be possible without you all!