Clive Mitten will release his new orchestral record on January 28. A double-CD featuring two hours of music, Suite Sixteen: Tales From A Misspent Youth – Volume I sees the former Twelfth Night bassist celebrate the prog rock that fired his imagination as a teenager. Working alone on an iMac equipped with state-of-the-art music software, Mitten has given the classical treatment to artists including Peter Gabriel, Mike Oldfield, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Jethro Tull and Rush.
“I’ve been doing this for almost two years non-stop,” Mitten tells Prog, “But I’m loving it. It’s a very particular thing to do, no one has ever done anything like this. The challenge is always around orchestration – how do you take rock music and represent it orchestrally so it makes sense to ‘prog people’,…