The RIP thread

Local musician Robin Taylor has died.

Our ex-colleague Per Reinholdt Nielsen has sent me this obituary, as a fine obituary for Robin Taylor:

Robin Taylor was a highly opinionated personality and musician who followed his own path. From the 1990s onwards, he created a career in progressive rock with an impressive number of releases on his own label. Robin Taylor slowly and stubbornly expanded his musical universe with impressions from e.g. jazz, electronic music and krautrock. Many of his works received good reviews on international sites for prog rock.

Despite the foreign-sounding surname, Taylor is a Kastrup boy and grew up in the high-rise buildings in Olufsgården. The interest in music came early. At 12, he became a fan of The Beatles and Cream, bought a guitar and started his first orchestra. Robin Taylor quickly switched to bass – because the band was missing a bassist – and from here it went on to play in various local bands that played at schools and Tårnby Gymnasium.

Real momentum in his career came when Robin Taylor got hold of a four-track tape recorder and started creating his own compositions. DR's program Båndbixen presented his music several times. As an autodidact, it was clear that Robin Taylor had his own sound and his own ideas about how the music should be put together.

He often drew inspiration from the many loans of records in the music library and the works were complex and characterized by great complexity. In addition to his creative musical abilities, he also possessed a great knowledge of especially Danish rock and progressive rock.

Robin Taylor was 67 years old.

//JPE