 New album containing 38 minutes of material, including a 25 minute epic! Recommended!
Format: CD / Cat No: TMRCD0824 / Released: 09/08/2024
Track Listing: 1. The Guardians Of Your Destiny (25.14) / 2. All Around The World (6.59) / 3. Cyan (Instrumental) (6.10)
More information: Cyan was originally formed by Magenta’s Rob Reed back in 1983, whilst still at school. ‘For King And Country’ was the first of three albums by Cyan released in the 1990s before Rob formed Magenta.
2021 saw the reformation of a new Cyan line up. Alongside Rob it includes Peter Jones (Camel/Tiger Moth Tales) on vocals, Luke Machin (The Tangent/Maschine) on guitar, and Dan Nelson (Godsticks/Magenta) on bass. The band has since performed at Night Of The Prog in Germany, Summers End and Fusion festivals in the UK and also a recent tour of The Netherlands.
2023 saw the release of the album ‘Pictures From the Other Side’. The album contained 6 songs, including the epic 17 minute track ‘Nosferatu’.
This new album entitled ‘The Guardians’ contains 38 minutes of material, including the epic ‘The Guardians Of Your Destiny’, ’All Around The World’ and an exclusive instrumental track ‘Cyan’.
Rob Reed: "When we re-worked the Pictures album, we ended up with around 95 minutes of music, too much for a single CD release. I also thought that was too much music for people to take in in one sitting, so I decided to leave off two tracks. It’s been great to put these out as a new CD along with an exclusive recording of the instrumental track ‘Cyan’. The opening track on the original CD back in 1994 was ‘The Guardians’ running at 12 minutes, but when I finished the new version, it came in at a whopping 25 minutes and is now an absolute monster. It was too much to have that along with Nosferatu, the other epic on the album."
'All Around The World' was on the original album and was also used as the song for the ProgAID charity release in 2005. Released on the F2 Music label and co-ordinated by label owner David Robinson, it was a who’s who of the Prog community who submitted their contributions, including members of Marillion, Flower Kings, Transatlantic, IQ, Pendragon and many more. This new Cyan CD includes a new version of the song, recorded by the current Cyan line up.
The track 'Cyan' is made up of two instrumentals the band used to play when they formed the band back in school in 1984, again performed by the current Cyan line-up.
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