LOSE A LIFE (Nano Opera)

BEGGARS OPERA
RGS 9485

"The purpose of this album is to raise the profile of the World Problem of Electrical Sensitivity.

The method used here is essentially a sonic biography of my existence 'living' with the nightmare of electro sensitivity ( E.S.)
The lyrics Virginia has written are a direct reflection of what she has observed in me and are in no way exaggerated , thus they carry the power of truth.
It is my contention that all people are to some extent E.S. which remains at a more or less manageable level until something happens in the life which dramatically lowers the threshold to the susceptibility of the E.S. Problem.
This has been confirmed by the researches of Dr Carlo who maintains that there is always an 'event ' that triggers the descent in to E.S.

Does anybody on this earth get through life with out some significant event?

Ricky Gardiner
2010

1/ Electrofire Invasion 11.53
2/ Electro Half Light 6.11
3/ Masts on my Roof 11.24
4/ Cosmic Tango 6.49
5/ Dr.Carlo 7.00
6/ Tango for the End of Time 4.34 (Instrumental)

Ricky Gardiner: Guitars
Virginia Aurora Scott: Keys/ Vox
Tom Gardiner: Drums

All tracks composed by Virginia Aurora Scott
Published by Ricky Gardiner Songs 2010
Drums recorded at Red Kite studios by Martin Levan and Andy Thomas.

Beggars Opera All Tomorrows Thinking

Beggars Opera
RGS 9484
Now available on Beggars Opera itunes Beggars Opera itunes

A collection of surreal songs created from Ricky Gardiner's Guitar archives.Twin release to Suddenly Ahead Ahead: RGS 9483.

Dmitry Epstein review 2010:
"Long ago the obscure protagonists of art rock, in the last decades BEGGARS OPERA have been increasingly pushing the left-field border of the out-there genre, and now seem to have reached the peak of it with these two albums, released simultaneously. Both, as their titles suggest, are pointing forward, while the gist of them hark back to Gardiner's stash of instrumental sketches, with Scott's vocals making it all songs.
"All Tomorrows Thinking" is the deepest of the two, starting with "How She Swam" and rounding off with the racy "Faces In You", filled with the six-string harmonies and pure prog keyboards; in between, the sparseness takes the lead, despite all the riffs and vignettes. It's a paradox in the very spirit of the band so, while "Catching On To You" flows heavy, etching itself in a memory, in "Those Echoes", the '80s plastic pop rears its head along the glittery, if understated, melodic lines. But it's on "Suddenly Ahead Ahead" that ethereal surrealism takes over, right after the fantastic, Spanish-hued liquid guitar of the title track soars into invisibility, and if "Towers Falling" rocks the joint in bluesy vein, the tremulous "Sad Songs" booms with echoing twang of good vintage.
At the same time "Dance To Me" would have felt in place on the other album, which only goes to show they're in fact not two but a single record split for the best digestion; that's your thinking ahead!"

1/ How She Swam 4.37
2/ Tomorrows Thinking 5.01
3/ Those Echoes 5.06
4/ Perfectly Lovely 4.50
5/ Catching On To You 4.59
6/ Save Me 4.55
7/ Faces in You 3.17

Ricky Gardiner: Guitars
Virginia Scott: Vox/ Keys
Tom Gardiner: Drums

Beggars Opera Suddenly Ahead Ahead

Beggars Opera
RGS 9483

Now available on Beggars Opera itunes Beggars Opera itunes

A collection of surreal songs created from Ricky Gardiner's Guitar archives.

1/Suddenly Ahead Ahead 5.02
2/ So We Crash 5.23
3/ Soft Umbilical Machine 5.36
4/ Towers Falling 5.38
5/ When You Were Rosy 5.01
6/ Sad Songs 5.48
7/ Dance To Me 5.49
8/ Shadow Psychology 4.59

Ricky Gardiner; Guitars
Virginia Scott; Vox/ Keys
Tom Gardiner: Drums
Leonora Gardiner : Backing Vox on Sad Songs

Touching the Edge: Beggars Opera.
RGS 9475
Now on Itunes

CD now available
£10.00 inc p/p.

Another collection of surreal songs containing remasters of some older songs / new songs and Auschwitz.

...." here Gardiner's riffs often sound as urban as his late '70s work with Bowie and Pop. Thus, "Dancer In The Wind" sets the tone for a nervy trip, its raw funk bristling under Scott's indie-shaped voice, to crystallize in the majestic coldness of "Escalator Of Tall Stories"......."Frozen On An Eye" and the Eastern-flavored "I Lie There" are snowblindingly lyrical, while "Million Miles" hides a folky drone and light skank in its core. The resolve to such a crypticism comes with "Auschwitz" that seems to not belong here, but shows some strangely satisfying logic: recorded ten years earlier, the epic underlines the tragedy inherent to our times, yet from its progressive guitar flight and Dante's verses a ray of hope shines. The epitome of it is "River Over Me", sax-splashed and rocking, and it's easy to get along with the flow and touch the edge."
Let it Rock Dmitry Epstein.
2009.

Ricky Gardiner ; Guitars
Virginia Scott : Keys and Vox
Tom Gardiner: Drums

Close to My Heart: Beggars Opera.
RGS 9473

Now on itunes



AND ON CD £10.00 (inc p/p)

Ricky Gardiner: Guitars
Virginia Scott: Keys and Vox
Tom Gardiner: Drums

LET IT ROCK REVIEW 2007:
'But from the opening cosmic guitar lines of "Secret" that break into the urgent singing and on, to the fantastic folk swirl of instrumental "Here Comes Everybody", there's the same sparse lushness that, in the early '70s, took them from the Victorian extravaganza of "Act One" to the "Waters Of Change" futurism. While the new output is very modern, transcending "Apparently Uncontrolled" even fit for the trance-danding, ambience packs a punch in the slow funk .........' Let it Rock Dmitry Epstein.

ACT ONE 1970

Ricky Gardiner: Guitar
Alan Park: Keyboards
Martin Griffiths: Vocals
Ray Wilson: Drums
Marshall Erskine: Bass