Bob Drake is a recording engineer who, in his spare time, defined the ethos of avant-prog through his work with seminal bands like Thinking Plague and 5uu's. At first a bass and guitar player, he ended up touching every instrument known to mankind and fixed a couple of new ones in the process. He is also gifted with a high-pitched voice, not unlike that of Yes' Jon Anderson. He released a string of solo albums during the 1990s onward, each a more twisted aural journey than the previous one. But no matter how experimental Drake gets in his songs and producing, he usually keeps ...