Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men of Tain (2000) [FLAC]
Category Rock/Pop, Rock, Jazz Instrument, Guitar, Art Rock, Jazz
Label Globe Music Media Arts
Orig Year 2000
Discs 1
Release Date Feb 25, 2003
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Allan Holdsworth
Engineer Duncan Aldrich; Allan Holdsworth
Personnel Allan Holdsworth - synthesizer, guitar
Walt Fowler - trumpet
Gary Novak
Dave Carpenter - acoustic & electric basses
Also: Chad Wackerman
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This is a U.S. reissue of a 2000 European/Japanese release. It contains additional music and special packaging.
Coming on the heels of some rather mediocre efforts, The Sixteen Men of Tain is startlingly superb. Holdsworth has stripped away the distracting banks of keyboards and allowed his soaring, gliding guitar to shine through in a way it hasn't since the 1980s. Even the Synthaxe, Holdsworth's signature guitar synthesizer, sounds organic and immediate, not to mention far less prevalent than on previous albums. Dave Carpenter's acoustic bass is a radical departure (check out his solo on the title track), as are Walt Fowler's two guest appearances on trumpet. "The Drums Were Yellow," a burning guitar/drum duet tribute to the late Tony Williams, is also a first. Gary Novak's drumming is appropriately complex and riveting on this and six other tracks. (Holdsworth's old compatriot Chad Wackerman sits in for "Downside Up.") In short, this album is full of fresh ideas and unadulterated improvisational brilliance -- just when it was beginning to seem that Holdsworth's best work was behind him. ~ David R. Adler
This is the first new studio release from guitar legend Allan Holdsworth in four years. It features virtuosos Dave Carpenter, Gary Novak and former Zappa drummer Chad Wackerman. This album was released in Europe and Japan two years ago but was not releas
Recorded at The Brewery, San Diego, California. Includes liner notes by Richard Heath.
Personnel: Allan Holdsworth (synthesizer, guitar); Walt Fowler (trumpet); Dave Carpenter (acoustic & electric basses); Gary Novak, Chad Wackerman (drums).
Personnel: Allan Holdsworth (guitar); Walt Fowler (trumpet); Dave Carpenter (acoustic bass, electric bass); Gary Novak, Chad Wackerman (drums).
Audio Mixers: Duncan Aldrich; Allan Holdsworth.
Liner Note Authors: James P. Carse; Richard Heath.
Recording information: The Brewery, San Diego, CA.
Photographer: Eddie Coralnick.
Tracks:
1 San Onofre
2 0274
3 Sixteen Men of Tain
4 Above and Below
5 Drums Were Yellow
6 Texas
7 Downside Up
8 Eidolon
9 Above And Below (Reprise)
10 Material Unreal
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