(Magic Nuns Records) 2024.
CD/digital
Progressive – UK
Mr. Nick Magnus is well-known and a recognized keyboard player with many years of experience and respectable career. He was part of the highly regarded band The Enid, and during his career he collaborated intensively with Steve Hackett, with whom he released 12 albums during 11 years of cooperation.Nick is also a respected producer and arranger, and during the 80’s, he collaborated with many people, different artists, also bands and performers such as : China Crisis, Renaissance, George Martin, Mungo Jerry, Brian May, David Essex, Pete Burdens, Chris Rea, Cilla Black, Richie Havens…”A Strange Inheritance” is his 7th progressive albums, which will have its world premiere on September 16, 2024.
All music composed and arranged by Nick himself, all lyrics by Dick Foster. Nick was also charge of production, and he played keyboard, synthesisers, percussion, tongue drum. A great cast of guest musicians participated on the album, such as : Tony Patterson, Andy Neve, John Greenwood, Louise Young, Ginger Bennett and the indispensable Steve Hackett.
“A Strange Inheritance” is a sort of conceptual album, a specific tale of love, loss, and revenge. This is also an unexpected story of a young woman whose misplaced love condemns her to the grim streets of 18th century London. She is deported, travelling across the high seas to the New World, where imperialism and injustice rule, and the life in so call “paradise” doesn’t look as expected.
Musically, it is a serious realization, full of a specific and refined atmosphere. The songs are arranged in such a way, as if you are watching an interesting and emotional, perhaps at times “difficult” film, but where the sure authorial hand of the main character, with the assistance of collaborators, all the time “forces” you to carefully analyze the presented material. Some musical segments, or better to say, some hidden arrangement “passages”, can remind of the images reflected by the early albums of Genesis, such as : “Trespass”, “Nursery Cryme or “Foxtrot”, but in this case, it could only be deliberately provoked “quotes” that connect the past and the present in the author’s specific way.
This is one of those albums that you will come back to often, and it is without doubt a great work by Nick Magnus.
avg 18 2024
NICK MAGNUS – “A Strange Inheritance”
(Magic Nuns Records) 2024.
CD/digital
Progressive – UK
Mr. Nick Magnus is well-known and a recognized keyboard player with many years of experience and respectable career. He was part of the highly regarded band The Enid, and during his career he collaborated intensively with Steve Hackett, with whom he released 12 albums during 11 years of cooperation.Nick is also a respected producer and arranger, and during the 80’s, he collaborated with many people, different artists, also bands and performers such as : China Crisis, Renaissance, George Martin, Mungo Jerry, Brian May, David Essex, Pete Burdens, Chris Rea, Cilla Black, Richie Havens…”A Strange Inheritance” is his 7th progressive albums, which will have its world premiere on September 16, 2024.
All music composed and arranged by Nick himself, all lyrics by Dick Foster. Nick was also charge of production, and he played keyboard, synthesisers, percussion, tongue drum. A great cast of guest musicians participated on the album, such as : Tony Patterson, Andy Neve, John Greenwood, Louise Young, Ginger Bennett and the indispensable Steve Hackett.
“A Strange Inheritance” is a sort of conceptual album, a specific tale of love, loss, and revenge. This is also an unexpected story of a young woman whose misplaced love condemns her to the grim streets of 18th century London. She is deported, travelling across the high seas to the New World, where imperialism and injustice rule, and the life in so call “paradise” doesn’t look as expected.
Musically, it is a serious realization, full of a specific and refined atmosphere. The songs are arranged in such a way, as if you are watching an interesting and emotional, perhaps at times “difficult” film, but where the sure authorial hand of the main character, with the assistance of collaborators, all the time “forces” you to carefully analyze the presented material. Some musical segments, or better to say, some hidden arrangement “passages”, can remind of the images reflected by the early albums of Genesis, such as : “Trespass”, “Nursery Cryme or “Foxtrot”, but in this case, it could only be deliberately provoked “quotes” that connect the past and the present in the author’s specific way.
This is one of those albums that you will come back to often, and it is without doubt a great work by Nick Magnus.
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