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Roger Powell: Fossil Poets

Read "Fossil Poets" reviewed by John Kelman


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 Dream had already been around for a few years, but its synth-laden work always featured other instruments, including guitar, bass, flute and violin. Fossil ...

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Keyboard Legend Roger Powell Signs with Unicorn Digital and Releases Solo Piano

Keyboard Legend Roger Powell Signs with Unicorn Digital and Releases Solo Piano

Source: Glass Onyon PR - William James

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 styles and eras, Blue Note Ridge is pure, elegant and honest. In the 70s and 80s Roger Powells groundbreaking electronic synthesizer albums Cosmic Furnace ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Seamless

Self Produced
2023

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Fossil Poets

Inner Knot
2006

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Time (Reprise) ft. Marcus Gilmore

From: Seamless
By Roger Powell

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