John Wetton "Raised In Captivity"

If his moniker doesn't ring a bell then some of these should; Family, King Crimson, UK, Uriah Heep, Roxy Music, and.........oh, yeah, Asia.  Wetton has been around a long time and will continue this year on a limited tour with UK, the short-lived supergroup of my late 70's 'PRK Mad Rocker days.  The players who joined him for "...Captivity" mostly hail from those listed associations; Mick Box, Geoff Downes, Eddie Jobson, Tony Kaye, Sreve Hackett and Steve Morse.  Now that the namedropping is complete, I must say that, unfortunately, the record sounds like it's done by a group of sixty-somethings who've never quite lost the past.  If that's your bag, you will enjoy the album as a whole, but I doubt it will appeal to a younger demo.  I cast around the Internet looking for a video to play, but all I could find was the album cover and title track until searching for the final song of the record, "Mighty Rivers," one of the three keepers.  Up pops this video where the song is tied to the movie "Melancholia," a Czech Republic sci-fi drama that many movie critics listed as one of 2011's best films.  I can't confirm if the song is in the movie, but this is well-done and woefully under viewed...


With Kirsten Dunst in the movie, I don't care how depressing it may be.  She is amazing.  It also stars Kiefer Sutherland and a name that Americans should become familiar with soon enough, Charlotte Gainsbourg.  Besides numerous film credits, she also boasts a couple of solo albums, including a full-length collaboration with Beck almost two years ago to the day.  Beck was a fan of Charlotte's father, Serge.  Wow, if you don't know who that is, please look it up.  Also learned the female voice featured on "Mighty Rivers" is Anneke Van Giersbergen, former lead vocalist for Dutch metal group The Gathering.  Her new solo album came out today, so be on the lookout for a post on it here in a few weeks (yes, weeks, as I have three more posts ready to be written and three new records in rotation already!). 

Oh, well, so I got a bit off-track, didn't I?  Still music related though...