Montreal, Qc, Canada - Unicorn Digital is proud to announce that legendary keyboardist Roger Powell (Utopia, David Bowie, Meat Loaf) has signed a deal with the label to release Blue Note Ridge, a collection of improvisations that embrace classical melody, contemporary harmony and impressionist forms on this debut solo piano album. A stream of consciousness merging ...

Album

Fossil Poets

By Roger Powell

Label: Inner Knot
Released: 2006
Track listing: Lone Gunmen; Fallout Shelter; Delayed Reaction; Test Drive; Creme Fraiche; Too Much Rain; Underwater City; Dauphine (piano solo, for Vince); Tribe By Fire; Miles per Gallon; Peaceful Uprising; Serpentine; Zentegrity; Osmosis; Astrae (piano solo, for Karen).

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Article: Album Review

Roger Powell: Fossil Poets

Read "Fossil Poets" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
November 2, 2006

Best known as charter member of Todd Rundgren's sometimes progressive/sometimes New Wave pop band Utopia, Roger Powell has also worked with David Bowie and Meat Loaf. Keith Emerson may have made a bigger splash with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, but it was Powell who, with Cosmic Furnace (Atlantic, 1973), released the first all-synthesizer rock record. Tangerine ...