The Tangent

'Pyramids, Stars & Other Stories: The Tangent Live Recordings 2004-2017" is The Tangent's new Triple Live Vinyl compilation album (also available on CD) " A Triple Live LP is the stuff of Bucket Lists" says leader Andy Tillison. "Dreamed of doing one of these since I was a kid" Three concerts are represented, one from 2004, one from 2011 and one from 2017. All have had some form of prior release as "unofficial bootlegs" but they are presented here on Inideout for the very first time. Included in its entirety is the 2004 "Pyramids And Stars" concert in Germany featuring the "Roine Stolt" lineup of The Tangent playing its way through the majority of the debut "Music That Died Alone" album along with (then) new material from their second album "The World That We Drive Through" Added to that, there are tracks from the COMM era line-up of the band (recorded without the knowledge of the musicians) at a concert in the UK - plus tracks recorded in the USA in 2017 by the band's current line-up. These originally appeared on the "Southend On Sea" and "Hotel Cantaffordit" fan releases respectively. Presented in a re-imagined Ed Unitsky "Pyramids and Stars" LP gatefold sleeve and Double CD digipack, the release of this album has been long awaited by the band's enthusiasts. "This is a real, proper, live album" says Tillison. "It's candid, it's spontaneous, it has mistakes and things that are a bit too loud and things that are a bit too quiet. It's what happened on stage at three gigs at which "making a live album" never crossed our minds."