Rob Cottingham – Captain Blue 2013

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Jan 21, 2013 All Exclusive Progressive Rock

now/ex TOUCHSTONE

ROB Cottingham, SINGER songwriter, keyboardist and co-founder of the rock band TOUCHSTONE, produces "CAPTAIN BLUE" solo album.

Rob Cottingham is a prolific, talented and accomplished composer, song writer, lyricist, keyboard player, and vocalist. His music ranges from intensely intimate and acoustic to a powerful broad atmospheric sound with swirling synthesizers, 'cathedralesque' organs and deep bass sounds. He also enjoys 'playing with' sounds and textures to add to the feel of the music.

After ten years since his first thought-provoking solo album - 'Behind The Orchard Tree' - released in March 2002, and forming Touchstone, along the way Rob had garnered material which was either not 'right' for Touchstone, or - as he readily admits - he was too close to, so felt the urge to put out a solo album some of which covers material from the last ten years, and some of which has been freshly written at the end of 2011, after The City Sleeps was launched.

Rob describes the album as a "cross-genre-ational blend of rock, prog and pop, covering the themes of death, time, self-realisation...and Zebedee..." Some of the album firmly has the tongue in the cheek: some of the album certainly hasn't...

Rob is joined on the album by fellow Touchstone band member Adam J Hodgson - guitars, Heather Findlay (ex-Mostly Autumn and now a fine solo artist in her own right) on vocals, Simon Page aka Dr Goat Foot (formerly with Donovan's band) - bass guitar, and Gary O'Toole (Steve Hackett Band) - drums and percussion.

(Note: Dr Goat Foot is presently in a band called 'The Carpathian Inflammable Shadow Puppet Orchestra', which also features Gary O'Toole on drums

1. Condemnation 2:24
2. Vantage Down 1:48
3. Before Your Walls Came Down 2:32
4. Captain Blue 5:50
5. Chasing Storms 3:24
6. Final Kiss 4:12
7. Reach Out 4:21
8. Only Time Will Tell 3:17
9. Thin Ice 1:38
10. The Drowning Man 5:54
11. Stray Dog 3:04
12. Spinning the Wheel 4:19
13. In the End 4:34
14. Refrain 0:40
15. Still Running 5:59
16. When the Walls Came Down 3:53
17. Soaring to the Sun 7:20
18. The Drowning Man (Radio Edit)