Reingold Records are delighted to announce the forthcoming Release of the debut album by TILLISON REINGOLD TIRANTI (-TRT-). 

The Lineup of Andy Tillison (The Tangent/Po90) Jonas Reingold (The Flower Kings/Steve Hackett Band/Karmakanic) and Roberto Tiranti (New Trolls/Ken Hensley/Labyrinth) is a pan European Progressive Rock Band project and the album was recorded during lockdowns in Italy, Austria and the UK.

The album "Allium: Una Storia" is a concept album which takes as its subject a real band "Allium" that Tillison saw play and jammed with in Italy when he was a teenager in the mid 1970s.

"One afternoon spent with this band was enough to decide my career for the rest of my life" says Tillison, who subsequently spent a long time searching for any information about them.

"It was the first time I saw and touched a synthesiser; it was the first time I ever saw an electric band play. It was a golden moment on a holiday camp in Italy that has been an influence on every recording I have ever made in the past 46 years."

The new band -TRT-'s album is an imagining of the record Allium might have made. Written in the style of the music that they played, the band were joined by Italian lyricist Antonio De Sarno (Moongarden Barock Project, Mangala Vallis) who, in keeping with Tillison’s original music, wrote the kind of lyrics that might have been penned by Allium at that time.

All members of the band have contributed to the songwriting since inception. The album, whilst paying homage to this and many other forgotten Rock Progressivo Italiano bands, is all original material written in 2021.

The album features full-on European style progressive rock music and of particular note are the incomparable Italian language vocals of Roberto Tiranti which bring a new dimension to the established work of Tillison & Reingold.

Personnel: Andy Tillison: Keyboards and (Real) Drums. Jonas Reingold: Electric Guitar and Bass Guitar Roberto
Tiranti: All Vocals Antonio De Sarno: Lyrics with guest Ray Aichinger: Soprano & Tenor Saxophones
The album features three songs the side long epic "Mai Tornare" and two shorter tracks "Ordine Nuovo" and"Nel
Nome Di Dio" The album will be released on CD and features 2 mixes of the whole 40 minute album. "Original Mix"
by Andy Tillison strives to be authentic to the sound of the times and "2021mix" by Jonas Reingold in the style of a
"Respectful Remix" made with modern technology.

The album is set for a SUMMER 2021 release and is available on Reingold Records. Pre-orders are available at
www.jonasreingold.se/shop

It was an eyebrow raising moment for all members of the band when exactly one week after release, on Friday the 28th of August 2020.. "Auto Reconnaissance" was sitting at number 8 in the official UK Rock album charts sandwiched incongrously between Nirvana and Led Zep. Although the "success" was short lived and was "out with a bullet" the following week leaving Nirvana and Zep asking each other "Who the hell was that?", everyone at The Tangent was in great spirits after having accomplished something that they had never even considered might happen. A Fourth Gen Prog band in the top ten. It' doesn't happen every week.

I have been told that the Auto Reconnaissance CDs and Vinyls have arrived in the warehouse in Dortmund... so they EXIST!. This has to be good news. Of course I haven’t seen any of them yet. Most of you guys know the drill, we’ll get them delivered here with only a heartbeat in which to get them to you on time but we’ll do our very best. One of our local Post Offices is On Alert - bizarrely I’ve had this watercolour painting of the very post office your CDs will be shipped from - for 10 years or so.

Some really good stuff happening, we seem to be gathering some radio play from our first Single “Life On Hold” on Radio Caroline... that’s pretty cool actually hearing the band on the Medium Wave AM... the first reviews came in in the latter part of last week and we’re off to a cracking start.“The Tangent are a British progressive rock institution and every new album is eagerly awaited by the fans and, while every fan will have their own opinion, ‘Auto Reconnaissance’ is my favourite album from the band yet. Andy is on top form, his song writing is as sharp and clever as ever and he has gathered around him a group of musicians who seriously have no peers. A superb release and one which cements The Tangent’s already exalted reputation.” Read the review by Martin Hutchinson in full here.

“What you will always get is superb musicianship from some of prog’s most respected artists, a sense of melody that creates insistent, sticky earworms, and lyrics that are sometimes personal, sometimes political, but always thought-provoking and seasoned with self-effacing humour.” Read the full review by Kevan Furbank, here.

 In case you missed them, we’ve had a couple of videos out recently, including one for our second “single” release “The Tower Of Babel” which was released on Friday last week.

Plus the “Teaser Trailer” for our epic track “Lie Back & Think Of England” (read the reviews above) and of course our first Single “Life On Hold”

COMING SOON

A new website that features all these links and info/articles about the album will go online later this week, Chris Elliott has been beavering away at it and thanks to him from all of us.

A 20 minute plus video interview with some new song snippets that I filmed for Insideout last month. IO will be showing it in bite size portions, but we’re hoping to have the full interview here for you very soon and of course on the website.

There’ll also be a look at the albums INNER picture (vinyl gatefold and CD Booklet) which is a portrait of the band by a new artist to the genre.... More soon!

In the meantime, best wishes to everyone on the group, so looking forward to this dropping on doormats - hopefully something to lift spirits in this rather odd summer/year.

Love and Peace from Andy, Luke, Jonas, Steve and Theo.