Out of this World
Jem Godfrey of Frost* probably best captures the musical psyche of Rob Reed when, during a recent conversation, he told the prog multitasker he was the only person he knew who takes a break by making a new album.
In between releasing Chimpan A’s The Empathy Machine and Magenta’s Masters Of Illusion, Reed was wrestling with the complexities of the forthcoming two-part Sanctuary 4, and decided he needed to stop and take a step back. But there was no conventional holiday for Reed: he simply went back into the studio and did something completely different.
“I wanted it to have a cosmic feel to it as the first time I heard Oxygène, it sounded like a sci-fi movie soundtrack.”
Having mastered a multitude of musical genres was composed, performed and produced in just six weeks.
