{"id":6071,"date":"2016-06-13T05:16:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T05:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/06\/13\/progressive-rock-legend-ray-bennett-reissues-2001-solo-album\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T05:16:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T05:16:35","slug":"progressive-rock-legend-ray-bennett-reissues-2001-solo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/06\/13\/progressive-rock-legend-ray-bennett-reissues-2001-solo-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Rock Legend Ray Bennett Reissues 2001 Solo Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/AEZHhjwM-14cslfIzqHGHPP1b1Qrz89fBY39S5JjKR4WOoDRjjGj41RHow6egHQaQU4ImqNFxjudp-4QieByAw0YTQY=s405\" border=\"0\" width=\"216\" height=\"310\" \/><br \/>British progressive rock pioneer, Ray Bennett of Flash, is reissuing his 2001 solo epic \u201cWhatever Falls\u201d for the first time as a digital release, available now on iTunes, and in most digital stores worldwide for purchase and streaming!  <!--more-->  <br \/>With it&#8217;s original release just days after the Twin Towers fell on 9\/11, the hauntingly beautiful title track, \u201cWhatever Falls\u201d was, by eerie coincidence, appropriate and especially moving. But every track of this extraordinary work is an adventure into the innovative mind of an artist who helped define the progressive genre of rock.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Sevenoaks, Kent, in S.E. England, Bennett formed his first band, THE BREED, at fourteen with future YES drummer, Bill Bruford. At 21, he and original YES guitarist Peter Banks formed FLASH (EMI\/Capitol). This fast and furious, flashy 70&#8217;s band was much acclaimed, but short-lived. They toured worldwide and recorded three albums with a hit single \u201cSmall Beginnings\u201d reaching #28 in the USA. (FLASH is currently available on the UK Esoteric label.) After numerous reissues of their music over the years, FLASH reformed with Bennett, now on lead guitar, and original vocalist Colin Carter. In 2013, forty years since the last FLASH album, \u201cFlash-Featuring Ray Bennett &amp; Colin Carter\u201d was released on Cleopatra Records.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/WFbUgUKckKihZ-HaFrTLY45pEMImq7HVPp2WQ_IIylN8oSGMCo64qhsLly60VAFHexfxHUwBKN3NxweeUZLZmWdO=s500\" border=\"0\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Describing his solo effort, \u201cWhatever Falls\u201d today, Ray says: \u201cAs it was my first solo record I wanted it to be something special. I had taken so long to get around to it I felt sure it would get some serious scrutiny, so, coming from me, with my background, it had to be something worthy of my previous output. A flop wouldn&#8217;t do. An &#8216;Ok&#8217; album wouldn&#8217;t do either\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn album is for all time and intended for repeated listening. Each new listen should be the same pleasurable discovery. Some of my favourite albums are like that and I wanted mine to be too. I feel I succeeded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<br \/>Bennett : lead vocals, guitar, bass and keyboards<br \/>Mark Pardy drums (also plays on \u201cFlash-Featuring Ray Bennett &amp; Colin Carter\u201d)<br \/>David Kannenstine contributed bass on two tracks<br \/>Bennett, mixing, producer<br \/>Ed Fritz, engineer basic tracks<br \/>Gerry Collins, Protools editing and mastering<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/www.flash.net.co<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British progressive rock pioneer, Ray Bennett of Flash, is reissuing his 2001 solo epic \u201cWhatever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}