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Release Date: 05 June 2026
Label: Ethersounds
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5052442031147
Genres: Jazz Progressive Rock
Description
The Ethersounds label is pleased to announce the 2026 re-release of the 2015 album by internationally acclaimed British saxophone and flute player and composer Theo Travis Transgression is the second release with his band Double Talk. Travis co-leads the legendary band Soft Machine and has also worked with many artists in the prog, jazz and rock worlds such as Steven Wilson, David Sylvian, The Tangent, Bill Nelson and with Robert Fripp in Travis & Fripp. He put together a band of progressive jazz stars for the record and tours with them regularly.
Transgression was recorded in January 2015 at Koolworld Studio, Luton and Steven Wilson applied his studio skills to the album as he mixed and mastered it in his own studio, just before launching his own Hand Cannot Erase world tour. The album reflects many of Theo's inspirations, being instrumental and powerful bluesy progressive electric jazz with a strong 1970s influence.
With influences of King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra as well as late Talk Talk, and ECM artists such as Terje Rypdal and Palle Mikkelborg apparent, Transgression is a unique album.
Press:
"A rare, fine English psychadelic jazz." - **** MOJO
"For those whose tastes run the gamut from pop and rock to prog, ambient and, of course, jazz, Double Talk is an album and band that pays big dividends for an artist (and group) that deserves to emerge from hidden treasure status." - All About Jazz
"Travis' tenor is a warm, mellifluous instrument and together with the luscious, bluesy Hammond organ they create something rather unexpected...a prog-rock/jazz/blues hybrid album of genuine power and excitement." - BBC online
"A right humdinger of a band." - Jazzwise
"Travis' tenor sax solo bordered on the superhuman in its barely contained passion, its virtuosity and its flow of ideas." - BBC Music Magazine
"A young melodic saxist, who while mainstream, is unafraid of experimentation." - The Independent
Tracklisting
Bill Nelson's Orchestra Futura
Theo Travis' Double Talk
Theo Travis
Theo Travis
Theo Travis
Theo Travis
Theo Travis
Theo Travis
Kevin Ayers
Atomic Rooster
Yes
Premiata Forneria Marconi (pfm)
Jethro Tull
Mitchell / Coe Mysteries
Code 18
Winter In Eden
