Brand X

Brand X is an English jazz-rock group, founded in 1975. The band played almost exclusively instrumental music and took in their band history before numerous line-up changes.

  • 3.1 Studio albums
  • 3.2 Live albums
  • 3.3 Compilations
  • 3.4 Singles
  • 3.5 projects

Band History

Brand X was founded in the mid-1970s as a loose formation of musicians without professional ambitions. The founding members were John Goodsall, who was known from the surroundings of Alan Brown sets and had already recorded an album with Atomic Rooster, and bassist Percy Jones. This got Phil Collins, then drummer of progressive rock band Genesis, during the recording of Brian Eno's Another Green World ( 1975) know. Collins, instead of the originally planned Yes drummer Bill Bruford the third member of Brand X.

The three musicians played in the same year on the production Peter And The Wolf by Robin Lumley and Jack Lancaster, a jazz-rock adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev's classic, in which a number of well-known musicians such as Gary Moore, Cozy Powell, Stéphane Grappelli, Alvin Lee, Manfred Mann, Julie Tippett, Jon Hiseman and Brian Eno took part. It was followed by the project Mars Landscape (1975 ) by Lumley and Lancaster, in which for the first time played the original members of Brand X as a companion volume. It was agreed to make in this line some demo recordings that should have been the record label Charisma Records leaked. In addition, Robin Lumley was recorded as a keyboardist in the band.

1975-1982

The debut LP, Unorthodox Behaviour was released in 1976, with 100,000 copies sold in the UK, a surprise success. The musicians involved Goodsall, Jones, Lumley and Collins were about equally amazed at the titles were but little and commercially oriented rather than at the Jazz on the skirt.

The percussionist Morris Pert joined the band, and shortly after the Moroccan Roll LP was recorded and released. It is regarded as the best production of the band in the 1970s. The compositions have received more structure than on the previous album, and the first time a title (Sun In The Night ) by Phil Collins was sung.

After several appearances a small tour was undertaken in the Phil Collins was temporarily represented due to scheduling problems with Genesis drummer Kenwood Dennard through. From the tour recordings was made in 1977 further ado the LP Livestock. Of the five numbers had been previously published only two. Collins plays at three and Dennard in two pieces, the drums.

1978 held Masques, has now been replaced with the Dennard of Chuck Burgi on drums. A new addition was the keyboardist Peter Robinson, who had already played Quatermass. Robin Lumley produced the LP. It was followed by a tour in Japan. The record received good reviews, and the commercial pressure on the band slowly increased.

In 1979 there were further recording sessions in Ringo Starr's Startling Studios. Two new musicians were added: bassist John Giblin came for Percy Jones, who had moved to New York and could not be there at all times, and Mike Clarke on drums. The recordings lasted for two weeks and were included in shifts, so that two very different musicians could be heard on the final product. Pressure of success was mainly due to the fact that Collins ' awareness into worked in the band, and Brand X was considered as his " companion ". It also produced two very unusual songs and provided them with the vocals of Collins, so that the plate with the title product, a very non-homogeneous result showed. It met with most critics and fans with little positive response. The sung by Collins Soho was indeed released as a single, but met with no appreciable resonance. Nevertheless, a tour was conducted in 1979 by the United States.

As a result, drew increasingly from the split of the band. Although 1980 with additional material from the Product Sessions LP Do they Hurt? unpublished, but at the reviews hardly performed better than its predecessor. In the meantime, Collins began his meteoric solo career and was hardly able to participate in activities of the band. The published at the initiative Lumley 1982 CBS Records LP Is There Anything About? was torn apart by critics and led ultimately to the final resolution of Brand X.

1992-1997

The mid- 1980s, John Goodsall and Percy Jones concentrated on solo projects. Goodsall took with his band Fire Merchants 1989 and 1994 depending on an LP, while Jones published in 1990 as a one-man band consisting of bass and drum machine Cape Catastrophe. In 1992 she decided to revive the project Brand X again. They pulled Frank Katz added on drums and brought to the small label Ozone Records in 1992 as a trio CD X -Communication out. The production was different - even occupation related - much of the past years publications.

In 1996 he was Manifest Destiny. The Xylophonist Marc Wagnon was added to the band, which made the sound fuller. Wagnon could also contribute to Different compositions. 1997 tour of England, Italy, Germany and Switzerland was made.

Percy Jones had in 1993, the band launched tunnels that existed ( Jones, Wagnon, Katz), but whose music was free and experimental basically of the same cast as Brand X. This formation had published until then three studio and one live CD. On the third published in 2003 Tunnels Progressivity CD played on a song with John Goodsall (Wall To Wall Sunshine).

1997-1999

It was followed by various projects in which Goodsall and Jones participated partly in common, for example, the 1997 production published Schizoid dimension, a tribute CD to King Crimson, on the Goodsall as " Brand X West" and Jones with Frank Katz as " Brand X East " each contributed a song. "West" and "East " refers to the various places of residence of the musicians. John Goodsall lived in Los Angeles, Percy Jones in New York.

Percy Jones left in 1998 finally the band and was replaced by Mick Stevens on bass. Together played Goodsall and Jones back in 2000 by Sarah Pillow Nuove Musiche, a collection of songs from the Renaissance, which was a rare blend of classical, jazz and rock with the accompaniment of fire X - musicians.

John Goodsall 2005 announced intention to begin a new Brand X CD with Mick Stevens on bass and Brock Avery on drums, but this is not yet done. An official dissolution of the band has never been done, however Brand X is no longer active as a band since entered the millennium in appearance.

Occupation

  • John Goodsall: guitar (1975 -present)
  • Percy Jones: bass guitar (1975-1979, 1992-1998)
  • John Giblin: bass (1979 )
  • Mick Stevens: Bass (from 1999 )
  • Phil Collins: drums, percussion, vocals (1975-1982)
  • Kenwood Dennard: Drums ( 1977)
  • Chuck Bürgi: Drums ( 1978)
  • Mike Clarke: Drums ( 1979)
  • Frank Katz: drums (1992-1998)
  • Pierre Moerlen: Drums ( 1998)
  • Brock Avery: Drums ( from 2003)
  • Preston Heyman: percussion (1975 )
  • Morris Pert: percussion (1977-1979)
  • Robin Lumley: keyboards (1975-1979)
  • Peter Robinson. Keyboard (1978-1979)
  • Franz Pusch Keyboard ( 1996)
  • Kris Sjobring: Keyboard
  • Marc Wagnon: Xylophone (1992-1998)
  • Raphael Ravenscroft: Saxophone (1979 )
  • Stephen Short: Syndrums (1979 )
  • Danny Wilding: Flute (1975, 1978, 1992, 1996 )

Discography

Studio albums

  • Unorthodox Behaviour (1976 )
  • Morrocan Roll ( 1977)
  • Masques (1978 )
  • Product ( 1979)
  • Do They Hurt? (1980)
  • Is There Anything About ( 1982)
  • X - Communication ( 1992)
  • Manifest Destiny (1996 )
  • Missing Period ( 1997), recordings from 1975 to 1976

Live albums

  • Livestock (1977 )
  • RATED X USA - Live in New York Bottom Line (1978, release 1992)
  • Timeline (2000 ) (2 CD)
  • Trilogy ( 2003) ( 3 CD )

Compilations

  • X - Trax (1986 )
  • The Plot Thins - A History of Brand X (1992 )
  • Brand X featuring Phil Collins
  • Brand X - A History 1976-1980 (1997)
  • The X Files (1999)

Singles

  • Soho (1979 )

Projects

  • Nice N ' Greasy by Atomic Rooster ( 1973) ( Goodsall )
  • Another Green World by Brian Eno ( 1975) ( 3 Tracks Collins, Jones)
  • Peter And The Wolf of Lancaster & Lumley ( 1975) ( Collins, Goodsall, Jones, Lumley )
  • Mars Cape of Lancaster & Lumley ( 1975) ( Collins, Goodsall, Jones, Lumley, Pert )
  • Voyage Of The Acolyte by Steve Hackett ( 1975) ( Collins, Jones)
  • Before And After Science by Brian Eno ( 1977) ( Collins, Jones)
  • Music For Films by Brian Eno ( 1978) ( Jones)
  • Pleasure signal from Danny Wilding & Pete Bonus ( 1978) ( Goodsall, Collins Giblin )
  • Skinningrove Bay by Jack Lancaster ( 1981) ( Collins, Lumley )
  • Fire Merchants Fire Merchants ( 1989) ( Goodsall )
  • Percy Jones with Tunnels by Tunnel ( 1993) ( Jones, Katz, Wagnon )
  • Landlords Of Atlantis Fire Merchants ( 1994) ( Goodsall )
  • Supper's Ready ( Genesis Tribute) ( 1997) ( 1 Track Goodsall )
  • Schizoid Dimension ( King Crimson Tribute) ( 1997) ( 2 Tracks Goodsall, Jones)
  • A Tribute To The Music & Works of Brian Eno ( 1997) ( 1 Track Jones)
  • Painted Rock of Tunnel ( 1999) ( Jones, Katz, Wagnon )
  • Nuove Musiche by Sarah Pillow ( 2000) ( Goodsall, Jones, Katz)
  • Progressivity of the tunnel ( 2003) ( Jones, Katz, Wagnon, Goodsall )
  • Remixes by Sarah Pillow ( 2004) ( Goodsall, Jones, Katz)
  • The Art Of Living Dangerously (Live) by tunnel ( 2005) ( Jones, Katz, Wagnon, Goodsall )
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