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Taylor's Universe: Across the Universe

by Dave Wayne
May 1, 2016

Back in the day, record companies would occasionally issue “Greatest Hits" compilation albums. Usually cheaply packaged (no gatefold, no credits, no liner notes, etc.), these collections were a convenient way to have all of an artist's big hits (plus some filler) in one convenient location. Record companies reaped huge profits from these collections and, perhaps, took ...

From Scratch

By Taylor's Universe

Label: Marvel of Beauty
Released: 2015
Track listing: Other Meetings; Beta X; Balcony People; Interrail; Laura's Lullaby; For Louise; Autumn River.

Taylor's Universe: From Scratch

by Dave Wayne
May 18, 2015

If nothing else, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and studio rat Robin Taylor is consistent. Stylistically, he's done it all. His recordings-all self-produced and issued on his own Marvel of Beauty imprint-over the past two decades encompass everything from ambient soundscapes to free improvisation to straight-up hard rock. The past decade or so finds Taylor working exclusively with what ...

Robin Taylor: Evidence

by Dave Wayne
February 2, 2014

2013 was a banner year of sorts for Robin Taylor and his band, Taylor's Universe. The Copenhagen-based composer, keyboardist, and guitarist completed two albums Evidence, and Worn Out (Marvel of Beauty, 2013) and both stand among his finest work. A studio-bound aggregation, Taylor's Universe specializes in very personal and distinctive take on progressive rock. Instead of ...

Worn Out

By Taylor's Universe

Label: Marvel of Beauty
Released: 2013
Track listing: Floating Rats; Munich; Imaginary Church; Cruelty in Words; Jens in Afghanistan; Sergeant Pepperoni.

Taylor's Universe: Worn Out

by Dave Wayne
March 23, 2013

One can only hope that Robin Taylor was being ironic when he titled his latest collection Worn Out. Musically, it follows in the footsteps of his recent recordings with Taylor's Universe; Kind of Red (Marvel of Beauty, 2012) and Return to Whatever (Marvel of Beauty, 2009). But there's a freshness, fire and vigor here that suggests ...

Kind Of Red

By Taylor's Universe

Label: Marvel of Beauty
Released: 2012
Track listing: Firestone; Jakriborg; Crackpot Men; Sunday Imagine; Salon Bleu; Terasso; Tortugas; Lost in Jakriborg.

Taylor's Universe: Kind of Red

by Dave Wayne
May 6, 2012

Danish multi-instrumentalist Robin Taylor is something of a musical polymath who's recorded extensively in a number of disparate musical arenas, including free improvisation (with his group Taylor's Free Universe), hard rock (with Art Cinema), electronic soundscapes, and jazz-rock fusion. With Kind of Red, Taylor's stylistic focus is firmly in the general area of instrumental progressive rock.

Taylor's Universe: Kind of Red

by Mark Redlefsen
April 7, 2012

Leader of the band Taylor's Universe, multi- instrumentalist, composer, producer, and record label owner Robin Taylor hails from Denmark. With the title of his 30th release, Kind Of Red, Taylor cleverly tips a hat to the iconic album Kind of Blue (Sony, 1959) by trumpeter Miles Davis, and possibly also to King Crimson's Red (Atlantic, 1974). ...