Where are they now? - Jon Davison
This page last updated: 14 Oct 2021
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| Davison guests on 3 albums from In Continuum (Facebook;
Twitter;
YouTube),
a project by Dave
Kerzner (Sound of Contact,
worked with Jon Anderson, Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson, ex-Giraffe).
Already out is Acceleration Theory Part One and Part
Two, a 2-part, science fiction, concept album about a
female alien named AlienA (Leticia Wolf), who falls in love
with a human, Kai (Gabriel Agudo). She warns the Earth that
we are in danger of being annihilated by aliens who have
been responsible for man's evolution over millions of years.
The project arose from material by Kerzner had originally
written for Sound of Contact, including with Matt Dorsey,
Simon Collins (son of Phil Collins)
and Kelly Nordstrom, before that band split up. The band are
working on a third album and Davison has already recorded
parts for it, Kerzner said in Aug 2020. In a Feb
2021 interview with SOAL Night Live, Kerzner said the
album was "on the back burner" due to the pressure of other
work and because he was keen to record some vocals, e.g.
with Agudo, in person, which has not been possible during
COVID. He talked about a possible 2022 release. Asked
whether anything was going on with In Continuum in a Jun 2021
interview, Kerzner said, "Well, there is. I'm
backlogged", and he went on to say he was currently mixing a
live album from the band (see next paragraph) and is also
busy with several other mixing projects. He continuned,
"Once I'm done with all that, then the new music
will come", but did also say they had already "started work
on" the new album. He mooted a possible 2022 release. |
We were going to have him on this, this new '90s project that we're doing [A Matter of Time Vol. 1, a digital-only release involving re-recording material the band released in the 1990s], but we talked yesterday: he's tied up. They're in the studio right now, so, with Yes.Possible future solo project
[...] And so I told him we'd catch him on the next album. So he's kinda got an invitation [...] to get back in
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Lodge and his band were on the Royal
Affair tour with Yes and other acts. Lodge is
releasing a live album from that tour, The Royal Affair
and After (promo
video), due 3 Dec 2021. A limited edition blue
vinyl follows 28 Jan 2022. The album was mostly recorded
in Las Vegas on 26 Jul 2019, the same night as Yes's The
Royal Affair Tour: Live from Las Vegas, with
additional tracks recorded during subsequent US dates.
In a Jan 2021 report, Lodge said, "I've been in the studio
mixing that, and I just mastered that." At the time, he
predicted "release probably in the spring [2021]." Roger
Dean has done the album cover. Davison guests on the album: he sang additional vocals on "Ride My See-Saw" during the Royal Affair tour. Davison guested at further US shows with Lodge: in Nov 2019 and Feb 2020, providing lead vocals and acoustic guitar on "Nights in White Satin". The rest of the band are Alan Hewitt (works with The Moody Blues; keys), Billy Ashbaugh (works with The Moody Blues; drums), Duffy King (guitars) and Jason Charboneau (cello). Tracks:
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Lodge released the single "In These Crazy Times (The
Isolation Mix)" (3:41; promo
video) about the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Jul
2020. Performing are Lodge (vocals, guitars, keys, drums), Davison
(backing vocals), Kristian Lodge (John's son; lead
guitar) and Kirsten Lodge (John's wife; backing
vocals). Emily Lodge project managed. Another digital single
followed 30 Apr 2021, "The Sun will
Shine" (3:50), again with Davison on backing vocals and with
Lodge's 10,000 Light Years band. (Davison also engineered Lodge's
bass and vocal recordings.) Lodge had announced that "The Sun will
Shine", a new instrumental entitled "Sunset Over Cocohatchee Bay",
and a 2021 remix of "In These Crazy Times" would then form an EP
entitled On Reflection, to be incorporated into The
Royal Affair and After, but that is
not now happening.
| With Taylor
Hawkins & related projects In an Aug 2014 interview, Davison described how Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) had been working with Chris Squire and that the three had been considering a project together (see under Squire). Back in 1995, Davison, Hawkins and Riz Story had formed the band Sylvia. After Davison and Hawkins left, Story re-formed the band as Anyone. On 21 Aug 2020, Anyone released their third studio album, the 13-track On the Ending Earth... (TogethermenT Records). Story performed nearly all the music, but Davison guests on fretless bass on "Thought I Was". Davison had re-joined the band briefly in the mid-2000s, which is when he recorded this part. Next from Anyone is a double album, In Humanity (TogethermenT Records; duration 1:39:28), due 12 Oct 2021. This time, Davison recorded parts recently, singing lead vocals on the track "Misanthropist". The album was written, arranged, produced and otherwise performed by Story. Other projects Davison appears on "Pigs on a Wing 2" on the forthcoming Cleopatra Records release, Animals Reimagined – A Tribute to Pink Floyd: see on main page for details. Davison was on Sherwood's third Prog Collective album: see main page for details. Leon Alvarado has mentioned work with Davison and Sherwood: see details on main page. Davison has recorded vocals for a track with Edison's Lab, but has talked to the band about the possibility of an EP or album together: see details on the main page. He guested on 2 songs (3 tracks) of United Progressive Fraternity's Planetary Overload Part 1: Loss, now out: see on main page. |
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