CD/DVD Releases: Roger Powell Signs With Unicorn Digital, Releases ''Blue Note Ridge''
Unicorn Digital is proud to announce that legendary keyboardist Roger Powell (Utopia, David Bowie, Meat Loaf) has signed a deal with the label to release Blue Note Ridge, a collection of improvisations that embrace classical melody, contemporary harmony and impressionist forms on this debut solo piano album.
A stream of consciousness merging styles and eras, Blue Note Ridge is pure, elegant and honest. In the 70?s and 80?s Roger Powell?s groundbreaking electronic synthesizer albums Cosmic Furnace (Atlantic) and Air Pocket (Bearsville) were hailed as masterworks. Powell has always been held in high esteem by his peers.
?Even among the keyboard titans of the progrock Seventies, Roger Powell always stood out.? (Future Music U.S. Ed.- June 2006).
2006 signaled a welcome return of Roger Powell with the retrofuturistic, groove oriented, Fossil Poets (Inner Knot CD/Vinyl LP). The critically acclaimed release was produced by award winning producer Gary Tanin who, along with Powell, produced the 2009 solo piano offering Blue Note Ridge.
Released on Fossil Poet Records a few months ago (as a Limited Edition CD through CD Baby and via digital download) Blue Note Ridge will be available world wide on Unicorn Digital as of July the 14th 2009.
[Source: Unicorn Digital]