Where are they now? - Jon Davison
This page last updated: 30 Apr 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. Davison is on 3 tracks of the debut album, Acceleration Theory Part One, on which the core band was Kerzner (keys, vocals), Agudo (Steve Rothery Band; vocals), Randy McStine (The Fringe, Sound of Contact; guitar), Marco Minnemann (The Sea Within, Levin Minnemann Rudess, Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats, Mike Keneally, worked with Eddie Jobson, UK, Trey Gunn, Alex Lifeson, Joe Satriani; drums) and Dorsey (Sound of Contact; bass, guitar, vocals). Guests include Nick D'Virgilio (ex-Spock's Beard, Big Big Train, ex-Genesis, ex-Tears for Fears, worked with Chris Squire; drums), Steve Hackett (ex-Genesis, ex-GTR, ex-Squackett), Steve Rothery (Marillion; guitar on 1 track), Alex Cromarty (Mostly Autumn, Mantra Vega), Fernando Perdomo (Dave Kerzner Band, The New Empire), John Wesley (Porcupine Tree, Sound of Contact; guitar, vocals), Wes Dearth (worked with Porcupine Tree; guitar, vocals), and Wolf (Dead Deads; vocals). A debut single, "Be the Light", was released Dec 2018. There is a 4:33 single edit available on Amazon, or a more expensive 3-track release on Bandcamp:
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Acceleration
Theory Special Edition Part One & Two is a 4CD
physical release that is forthcoming, or a shorter digital release
that came out 3 Jul 2020. Tracks—Special Edition Bonus Disc and
digital bonus tracks:
The physical release, but not the download version, will have a
fourth CD of a live show performed by Kerzner, Agudo, McStine,
Dorsey and Minnemann, plus guests.
| "All That Is" is also on Kerzner's 2CD, 21
track (plus bonus track through Bandcamp), best-of Breakdown:
A Compilation 1995-2019, released 8 Nov 2019.
This also includes "Scavengers" and "Crash Landing" from Part
One: AlienA. "All That Is" is also on the Nov 2019 Prog
cover disc. The band played Cruise to the Edge 2019, with Kerzner (keys, vocals), Agudo (vocals), Dorsey (bass), McStine (guitar) and Minnemann (drums). Their first show had guests including Davison, Hackett and Thijs Van Leer (Focus). Dearth, Wolf, Perdomo, Celli and Joe Deninzon were also expected to guest at some point. The set list for the first show included the album in full; Kerzner also talked about playing material by Sound of Contact. Davison guested on additional vocals for at least "Scavengers", which also had Kerzner (keys, lead vocals) and Perdomo (guitar) on it. Davison also guested live, singing "Tom Sawyer", with the Dave Kerzner Band at the pre-cruise show. The cruise also included a show by Mike Portnoy & Friends (8 Feb, I think), which included a Transatlantic set by Portnoy, Neal Morse and Roine Stolt, with Ted Leonard, Randy George, Bill Hubauer and Davison. They performed "Suite Charlotte Pike/Abbey Road Medley", with Davison singing "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window". Kerzner said on ProgressiveEars.com late Nov 2018 that, "Jon Davison and I have talked about co-writing together and doing more (whether it's with/for IC or not I don't know yet)." Kerzner described on Instagram on 11 Jun 2019 about "an upcoming album I'm making with some of the guys from Yes this year [2019]! A cool collaboration with Jon D and friends using @ikmultimedia iRig PRO IO and AXE IO while Yes is on their Royal Affair Summer tour!" The project is also with Billy Sherwood. See on the main page for details. |
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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.
[...] 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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Possible future solo
project In the Jul 2020 interview, Davison talked of work with keyboardist Claudio Pesavento (worked with Chris Squire, Frank Marino): "We have [...] some songs sort of in the wings waiting to be further developed and hopefully we can do more together". Asked if this would be a solo project, Davison replied, "I think it would be a solo project [...] solo of mine, but he would be certainly involved [...] I've got a lot of irons in the fire. Not always enough time, but." With John Lodge Davison sang "Ride My See Saw" with John Lodge (The Moody Blues) at a London show by Lodge's band in Apr 2019, and on the Royal Affair tour. Lodge is planning a live album from that tour, The Royal Affair and After, due Sep 2021, and presumably "Ride My See Saw" with Davison will appear. 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 is doing the album cover. Davison guested at further US shows with Lodge: in Nov 2019 and Feb 2020 (lead vocals and acoustic guitar on "Nights in White Satin"). 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). John Lodge's daughter (and Jon Davison's girlfriend), Emily, 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. "The Sun will Shine", a new instrumental entitled "Sunset Over Cocohatchee Bay", and a 2021 remix of "In These Crazy Times" will then form an EP entitled In Reflection, which will be incorporated into The Royal Affair and After. |
| With Taylor
Hawkins & related projects Get the Money (Shanabelle/RCA Records), out 8 Nov 2019, was the third album from Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, the band led by Davison's childhood friend and the Foo Fighters drummer Hawkins (vocals, drums), with Chris Chaney (ex-Alanis Morissette; bass), Brent Woods and John Lousteau (The Birds of Satan). The opening track, "Crossed the Line" (audio), saw Davison (backing vocals) and Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, ex-Nirvana) guest. Details in Yescography. In an Aug 2014 interview, Davison described how Hawkins 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", while Miles Martin (bass) is on "Sip the Pleasure of Days" and Ethereal (piano) is on "A Brief Sparkle in the Nothingness". Other projects Cov3r to Cov3r (Radiant Records) is the third in a series of covers albums by Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy and Randy George. It includes a cover of Yes's version of "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" with vocals from Davison. The album was released 24 Jul on CD, gatefold 2LP + CD, and digital download. Tracks: "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" (version by Yes), "Hymn 43" (Jethro Tull), "Life on Mars" (David Bowie), "Baker Street" (Gerry Rafferty), "It Don’t Come Easy" (Ringo Starr), "Baby Blue" (Badfinger), "One More Red Nightmare" (King Crimson), "Black Coffee in Bed" (Squeeze), "Tempted" (Squeeze), "Runnin' Down a Dream" (Tom Petty), "Let Love Rule" (Lenny Kravitz). The album is also included as part of Cover to Cover Anthology (Vol. 1-3), out the same day, which compiles all three albums. The first two have been re-sequenced and remastered, and there is new artwork. Davison sang harmony vocals and played bass on some of Steve Howe's new solo album, Love Is, out Jul 2020. |
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