Peel, Palmer, Tausig & Gould - Synesthesia

Icarus Peel explains… “Peel was having a charming dinner with his old chum Steve Palmer, he of the immaculate soundscapes and subtle novels. They decided to create a new musical project somewhere between the fish course and the cheese. Four ten minute pieces were decided upon. So Palmer went away and beavered. After a while he sent Peel his musical thoughts. Peel raised him four new musical thoughts and the thinking went on for quite a while between them, back and forth, to and fro. Somewhere in there Jay Tausig got coerced into playing the drums, most exquisitely. And then to finish it off, the mighty Rob Gould added further keyboards, tastefully, impeccably

So…four ten minute pieces, devoid of vocals but infused with colour. someone who heard it said he thought he had discovered a lost Harvest album from the seventies. Another said it put him in mind of the times when people would sit cross legged in the dark so they could concentrate fully on the Gong or Barclay James Harvest album playing. The music might be influenced by Tangerine Dream, Burnin' Red Ivanhoe, Steve Hillage, Jeff Beck, Krautrock, Canterbury Rock, Vertigo, vegetarianism, Arthur Koestler and Gustav Klimt (although not all at the same time)”