Name: Variants 1 and 2
Brand: Richard Barbieri

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

KSCOPE1012

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-01-11

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0802644801216

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Artist

Richard Barbieri 

Genre GB

Prog Rock

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Kscope

Variants 1 and 2 is the first 2LP released in a series presenting a collection of disparate pieces of music from past and current works. It features live performances with guest musicians, new compositions, improvisations and reworkings of older material including a 2009 instrumental version of the Japan B-Side The Experience Of Swimming. In 2017, Richard Barbieri released his most sonically expansive work to date. Planets and Persona is his third solo album, but the first to feature such a wide pallet of instrumentation. Vintage analogue synthesisers combined with acoustic performances and jazz elements, including some stark and memorable improvisations from a personally hand-picked group of musicians, a release that has been well received by a dedicated and growing fan base. As an ex-founder of the new-wave pioneers Japan, Barbieri was a leader in creating the ground-breaking synthesiser sound that defined the band and influenced the likes of The Human League, Duran Duran, Gary Numan, Talk Talk and a whole raft of artists to follow. Together, the band recorded five studio albums culminating in the ground-breaking Tin Drum, which stayed in the UK Albums Chart for a year.

Variants 1 and 2

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