Tag Archives: Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant, Free Hand. Steven Wilson Re-Mix. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Enigmas are there to remind us how not everything in life can either make sense or be pushed back into the limelight if the originators don’t wish to reunite and tread upon the same road once more.

Where other Progressive behemoths have reunified, have continued with a change in personnel, made documentaries together and pulled back the velvet curtain as Dorothy’s loyal dog, Toto, did when presented with the smoke and mirrors of Oz, Gentle Giant remind us that you may have been amongst the biggest in the world, but you can also take a step away from the ones pulling the lever, creating the illumination, and leave the production of the perplexing mystery to another’s Free Hand.

Gentle Giant, Free Hand. Steven Wilson Re-Mix. Album Review. full post

(558 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Gentle Giant, Three piece Suite. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The very name Gentle Giant evokes such memories that the sheer complexity of their music is one to always remember fondly and with a stirring beating smile that suggests without them, many of the Progressive bands we know and love today, might simply not have recorded their own offerings in the same fruitful manner.

It is to the past that the future often looks to and in musician/producer Steven Wilson, Gentle Giant’s sense of layered introspection, of the purity that each album strived for over the course of a decade, is captured and given his incredible technical talent the urge to once more digest so much of a band and give the listening public a sense of the dramatic that was lost in earlier productions. Â

Gentle Giant, Three piece Suite. Album Review. full post

(432 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)