TONY BANKS AND THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CAPTURED THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY

Orchestral music has never made it onto my blog, i am the dumb and the unconnoisseur when it comes to any form of classical music (laugh), i only know it use to come in handy for me to listen to on my delivery rounds when i couldn't handle listening to BRUNO MARS or JUSTIN BIEBER any longer. 4MBS FM in Brisbane was quite often my early morning escape from what was being played on the pop and rock stations around town. I dont have as much as one classical record in my collection, but i did have a good and openminded listen to SEVEN: A SUITE FOR ORCHESTRA at a friend's place some years ago, it was released in 2004, performed by the LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA and written by none other than UK progressive rock guru TONY BANKS, the keyboardist from prog rock legends GENESIS. Banks wrote the entire album, seven pieces in total, hence the name, and he guests on his own album playing piano on three of the tracks. The final track THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY is one of the most multi-dynamic tracks of the seven, a perfect movie score that starts out very tame but becomes more lively throughout its 11 minute plus duration. I really am a hopeless judge of classical music but TONY BANKS and THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA playing THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY i thought was a good enough excuse to go down the classical music path for the very first time. SEVEN was Banks' first classical record, he repeated the feat in 2012, this time with the CITY OF PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, and the resulting album SIX PIECES FOR ORCHESTRA, which i cant say i've listened to but by all reports it's a very worthy follow-up and conducted by the renowned PAUL ENGLISHBY.