Andy Tillison (born 21 June 1959) is a

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keyboardist and singer best known for his work in the

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. In ...

bands Parallel or 90 Degrees and

The Tangent The Tangent is a progressive rock group formed in 2002. History Formation The band was formed in 2002 by Parallel or 90 Degrees keyboardists Andy Tillison and Sam Baine and multi-instrumentalist Guy Manning; The Flower Kings' guitarist Roin ...

Biography

Tillison and guitarist/vocalist

Guy Manning Guy Manning, born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England is an English multi-instrumentalist and singer, best known for his own album releases ( Manning) and for his membership of progressive rock bands Parallel or 90 Degrees, The Tangent, The United P ...

had an early unsigned band called Gold Frankincense & Disk Drive. The band's final line-up also included

Hugh Banton Hugh Robert Banton (born April 1949) is a British musician and electronic organ builder, most widely known for playing organ and keyboards with the group Van der Graaf Generator. Career Banton was born in April 1949 in Yeovil, Somerset, into a ...

on organ and Dave Albone on drums. One piece by this line-up, "A Gap in the Night", was later included on Parallel or 90 Degrees' ''The Corner of My Room'', followed by the archival release '' No More Travelling Chess''. Tillison and Manning then formed a new band, Parallel or 90 Degrees, with Sam Baine also on keyboards. With Manning temporarily unavailable, Tillison and Baine recorded ''The Corner of My Room'', subsequently released as the band's second album. A new line-up of Parallel or 90 Degrees signed with Cyclops Records with Tillison, Baine, Lee Duncan (drums), Jonathan Barrett (bass) and Graham Young (guitar). Young was later replaced by Gareth Harwood. The band released ''Afterlifecycle'' (1997) and ''The Time Capsule''. With Alex King on drums and Ken Senior on bass, the band then released ''Unbranded''. Harwood was replaced by Dan Watts for ''More Exotic Ways to Die''. Following a break to work on other projects, 2009 saw PO90 return with the album "Jitters". King and Watts are currently working on a band called British Fiction. Meanwhile, plans for a solo album by Tillison transformed into the first The Tangent release, '' The Music That Died Alone'' (2003). The line-up included

Roine Stolt Roine Stolt (born 5 September 1956) is a Swedish guitarist, vocalist and composer. A major figure in Sweden's rock history, Stolt led two of his country's most successful progressive rock bands: Kaipa in the 1970s and The Flower Kings in the 19 ...

Jonas Reingold Jonas Reingold (born 22 April 1969) is a Swedish bass guitarist from Malmö. Biography Reingold started to play bass in 1986 when he subbed for a friend in the local famous act WIRE. The band was happy with his performance and offered him the ...

and Zoltan Csorsz from

The Flower Kings The Flower Kings are a Swedish progressive rock band formed in 1994 by guitarist and singer-songwriter Roine Stolt. The group began as Stolt's touring band to support his third solo album ''The Flower King''. They continued performing after the ...

, David Jackson from

Van der Graaf Generator Van der Graaf Generator are an English progressive rock band, formed in 1967 in Manchester by singer-songwriters Peter Hammill and Chris Judge Smith and the first act signed by Charisma Records. They did not experience much commercial success i ...

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External links

Parallel or 90 Degrees official websiteThe Tangent official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tillison, Andy British rock keyboardists Living people The Tangent members 1959 births