Visionary Position
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Visionary Position is the debut album by Welsh progressive rock
band Panic Room
. It received generally very good reviews and helped get the band the 'Best New Band' award at the Classic Rock Society awards in 2009. It was recorded by Peter Charlton who also contributed some additional acoustic guitar to the album.
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Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
band Panic Room
Panic Room (Band)
Panic Room is a Welsh band made up of former Karnataka members Jonathan Edwards, Gavin Griffiths, Paul Davies and Anne-Marie Helder with Alun Vaughan on bass guitar....
. It received generally very good reviews and helped get the band the 'Best New Band' award at the Classic Rock Society awards in 2009. It was recorded by Peter Charlton who also contributed some additional acoustic guitar to the album.
Track listing
- "Elektra City" 8:31 (HelderAnne-Marie HelderAnne-Marie Helder is a British singer-songwriter who has performed throughout the UK since 2000, beginning with bands and then going solo in 2004. Her debut EP The Contact was released in November 2004, securing her airplay on BBC Radio 2, with Bob Harris declaring: "that is very dramatic music"....
/Edwards) - "Endgame (Speed of Life)" 10:12 (Helder/Davies/Edwards)
- "Firefly" 5:16 (Helder/Edwards)
- "Reborn" 4:58 (Helder/Edwards)
- "Moon on the Water" 3:00 (Helder/Edwards)
- "Apocalypstick" 6:07 (Helder/Edwards)
- "I Wonder What's Keeping My True Love Tonight" 8:12 (Trad. arr. Panic Room/Liz Prendergast)
- "The Dreaming" 18:55 (Helder/Edwards)
Credits (directly from the album's sleeve notes)
- Anne-Marie HelderAnne-Marie HelderAnne-Marie Helder is a British singer-songwriter who has performed throughout the UK since 2000, beginning with bands and then going solo in 2004. Her debut EP The Contact was released in November 2004, securing her airplay on BBC Radio 2, with Bob Harris declaring: "that is very dramatic music"....
- Lead/Backing Vocals; Flute (Track 8) - Paul Davies - Electric Guitars (1,2,3,4,6,7 and 8); Acoustic Guitars (3 and 5)
- Alun Vaughan - Bass Guitars; Fretless Bass Guitar (5)
- Jonathan Edwards - Keyboards; Piano (3,5,7 and 8); Loops (1,2,5,6 and 8)
- Gavin Griffiths - Drums
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- Peter Charlton - Acoustic Guitars (1,2,4 and 8)
- Liz Prendergast - Violin (2,5,6 and 7)
- Gary Phillips - Classical Guitar (6)