Computer Animation Arts

I wanted to share my latest musical crush with you.  Tony Bank's Six Pieces For Orchestra has been on repeat-play on my iPod for a couple of days now, specifically the third piece entitled Blade - which I've included below for your listening pleasure.  Tony Banks is one of the founding members of the British rock group, Genesis - but I didn't know this until after I'd purchased the cd on a whim.  If I had known, I might not have bothered, because for me Genesis associates too strongly with 'Dad rock' and Phil Collins.  Tony Banks isn't the only former rock musician to go the classical route; Paul McCartney, for example, has similarly composed classical works - Liverpool Oratorio (1991) and Standing Stone (1997) - as well as The Frog Song ;) Banks' Six Pieces For Orchestra is filmic and very accessible and maybe its immediate ease on the ear and slight sense of 'movies-I've-seen-before-deja-vu' will undermine its staying po...