Track Listings (8) - Disc #1| All Artists: Soft Works Title: Abracadabra Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Universal Import Release Date: 3/5/2003 Album Type: Import, Limited Edition Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock Style: Jazz Fusion Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 766482077243 |
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Allan Holdsworth reunites with members of Soft Machine, including Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, and John Marshall. Allan and the group recorded this instrumental studio project in London during the summer of 2002, all of the ... more » |
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Album Description Allan Holdsworth reunites with members of Soft Machine, including Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, and John Marshall. Allan and the group recorded this instrumental studio project in London during the summer of 2002, all of the musician's involved shine throughout. Featuring Allan Holdsworth, guitar, Elton Dean, sax, Hugh Hopper, bass, and John Marshall, drums. Limited miniature gatefold LP sleeve. Universal. 2003. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsA Soft Machine Reunion! 07/20/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "A combination of early and late model Soft Machine, in which Allan Holdsworth remembers how to play jazz, Elton Dean remembers how to play melodically, John Marshall remembers how to play fusion, and Hugh Hopper shows he never forgot any of it." A big surprise Jan P. Dennis | Monument, CO USA | 10/11/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "I don't generally like Allan Holdsworth. Nor do I usually like jazz/rock. So I'm really suprised at how much I've enjoyed this disc.I think it's primarily because alto sax and saxello player Elton Dean finds himself in a context where his innate melodicism comes to the fore and his declamatory, expressivist tendencies are properly situated. For me, this constitutes his finest playing on record, and I've heard him in quite a lot of settings, including lots of his recent extended avant-garde outings.Holdsworth, too, seems more interested in melodic and rhythmic nuance than mere pyrotechnics. The other players, Hugh Hopper (bass) and John Marshall (drums) consistently provide engaging rhythmic support. Not revolutionary but hugely satisfying." It's good to hear them together again Carl Johnson | Detroit, MI United States | 06/25/2003 (4 out of 5 stars) "This record is good and REALLY features Holdsworth's guitar comping skills and Elton Dean's Sax. The writing on this record are VERY simular to some Soft Machine classic songs and Hugh Hopper songs, but this is done more subtlely. For me, it is a bit to cliche' sounding and does not have "staying power". I will be interested to see if they do another CD. On this one, it starts with, "Seven Formerly ". It is kind of cheesy with a lot of anticipation for Allan's solo. This record COULD have been so much, but it falls slightly flat. Still a worthy spin."
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