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Gareth Sager
12+ albums
Post punkinstrumentalnew classicalbristolbr1STol
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Gareth Sager (born 1960 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a British guitarist, keyboardist, musician, composer and songwriter, and is a founding member of The Pop Group, Rip Rig + Panic (with Neneh Cherry), Float Up CP and Head. In his early years Sager became acquainted with the works of Erik Satie, Frédéric Chopin and Claude Debussy, an influential starting point recently revisited and expanded upon with 2017’s solo piano album 88 Tuned Dreams. The collection exemplifies the urgency, experimentation and reinvention that has defined Sager’s myriad projects and collaborations over the last forty years. As a vital presence, both in The Pop Group’s original incarnation and in their subsequent reformation, Sager remains a principal foundation in one of post-punk’s most relentlessly evolutionary and antagonistic groups. His uninhibited approach to instrumentation as a guitarist, saxophonist and clarinetist and his astute use of electronics in recent material continues to inspirit the bands momentous radicalism. Despite the ongoing importance of this affiliation Sager has remained open to the possibilities afforded by other projects. After The Pop Group first disbanded in 1980, Sager formed the conceptual collective Rip Rig + Panic, headed by a young Neneh Cherry. Releasing three acclaimed cult albums, a revered run of singles and indebted to the freeform and wildly discordant jazz of some of Sager’s acknowledged inspirations (Ornette Coleman and Rahsaan Roland Kirk amongst them) the
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88 Tuned Dreams
The Last Second Of Normal Time
Play Yr Heart Out
Maelstrom In The Bare Garden
Slack Slack Music
How Can I Help You, When You Don't Want to Help Yourself
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They're Playing Kraftwerk in the Coffee Shop
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St Jock
Slick Slack Music
Ghost Ship Trance Lamentations
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The Caledonian Blues
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'Popism'- Pocket Radiodrops Volume II