John Holden: With many musical friends!

I never heard about flying train but as a song title Flying Train sounds exciting and the musician behind this is the multi-instrumentalist John Holden. He is a UK progger and 30 September he released the album Kintsugi.

Holden states, «I happened on some vintage footage from 1902 of The Flying Train that had been restored and colorized It had a strange tranquility and was simultaneously nostalgic and futuristic. I thought it would be fun to create a soundscape that evoked the sounds and sensations of traveling on the monorail».

Holden have as the most musicians musical friends and they support him on the new album, and they are very skilled! New album Kintsugi features an array of guest slots from the likes of Peter Jones, That Joe Payne, Sally Minnear, Dave Bainbridge, Henry Rogers, Vikram Shankar, Jean Pageu and more…

«Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with gold. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, but the repair is literally illuminated».

«Events in our life shape who we are. Kintsugi teaches us that when we think we are broken, we can pick up the pieces and with help, put them back together sometimes becoming stronger as a result. We can learn to embrace the flaws and with time and healing, be spiritually repaired».

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