Tim Esau – Bass

I think they call it Neo-Prog – the movement of Prog Rock bands that arose from the post-Marillion/Pallas/Twelfth Night/Solstice/IQ bands that proliferated at The Marquee in London and took to the stage at the Readign Rock Festival in the early 1980s. I believe all of these bands are still going in some form or other, albeit I suspect that few of them are making what you would call a living doing it but, to their collective credit, the quality of a lot of this music is of the highest order. This is the title tune from the 2014 IQ album ‘The Road Of Bones’ which is an incredibly strong album. The tunes revolves primarily around Tim Esau’s one-bar bass ostinato but he keeps the interest level up and there are parts of this where the ostinato is implied and nuanced fills added and left out as the mood takes him. There are a couple of notes that are idiosyncratic slides and growls so the chart is not perfect but there is enough here to get through a gig if you every had to dep for Tim.

Great lyrics from Pete Nicholls.