ANDERSON/STOLT

Invention Of Knowledge INSIDEOUT

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Vinyl remaster for prog bigshots’ sole studio collaboration. On the face of it, this 2016 collaboration between prog pioneers of different generations promised everything and nothing. The project’s uninspiring, legal-firm name suggested a belief that just cutting and shutting two prominent musical figures together would automatically succeed, while the two men barely met during the making of Invention Of Knowledge, as California-based Jon Anderson sent demos for European counterpart Roine Stolt to work on. So what is it that made Invention Of Knowledge a success, and worthy of a slick remaster for this reissue (on transparent orange vinyl)? On the one hand, it’s Anderson’s irrepressible positivity as a writer and performer. In a musical landscape where dark and dystopian visions are routinely awarded greater value and perceived profundity than their…

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Prog (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 142

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