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It’s quite a year for this 28-piece ensemble. With a Prog Rock Classics comp and a space-age collaboration with Hannah Peel due in the autumn, here’s their arrangement of Oldfield’s seminal work. The brainchild of bandleader Sandy Smith, elements of David Bedford’s 2003 reboot are spliced with the ’73 original, notated by ear as no written score was available. Brassed off? This is the tonic.

Jo is a journalist, podcaster, event host and music industry lecturer who joined Kerrang! in 1999 and then the dark side – Prog – a decade later as Deputy Editor. Jo's had tea with Robert Fripp, touched Ian Anderson's favourite flute (!) and asked Suzi Quatro what one wears under a leather catsuit. Jo is now Associate Editor of Prog, and a regular contributor to Classic Rock. She continues to spread the experimental and psychedelic music-based word amid unsuspecting students at BIMM Institute London and can be occasionally heard polluting the BBC Radio airwaves as a pop and rock pundit. Steven Wilson still owes her £3, which he borrowed to pay for parking before a King Crimson show in Aylesbury.

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