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Delta Saxophone Quartet: Dedicated to You...But You Weren't Listening - The Music of Soft Machine
by John Kelman
The legacy of Soft Machine continues to be felt to this day through alumni-related projects including Soft Bounds, Soft Mountain and Soft Machine Legacy. But it's the Delta Saxophone Quartet's Dedicated to You...But You Weren't Listening--The Music of Soft Machine that may be the most revelational...and revolutionary look at a legendary British group that ran the ...
Phil Miller - In Cahoots: Conspiracy Theories
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista Phil Miller con il suo gruppo In Cahoots è l'unico musicista della cosiddetta scuola di Canterbury ad aver mantenuto una certa regolarità nella sua produzione (sia pure con una visibilità non sempre ottimale), finendo per rappresentare con la sua continuità l'ideale incarnazione di tutto quel filone musicale che lo ha visto tra i protagonisti ...
Phil Miller - In Cahoots: Conspiracy Theories
by Nic Jones
Maybe it's not fair to refer to guitarist Phil Miller's times as a member of British bands Delivery, Matching Mole and Hatfield & The North as that was all some decades ago. But the fact of the matter is that the often very straightforward nature of the music on this one loses out in comparison with ...
Elton Dean & The Wrong Object: The Unbelievable Truth
by Nic Jones
Poignant doesn't cover it. This was one of Elton Dean's last gigs before his death and all the qualities that made him such a distinctive voice on alto sax and saxello--his wit, his ascetic, unsentimental lyricism and the like--are caught in abundance and in the company of a band who do a whole lot more than ...
Hugh Hopper: Numero D'Vol
by Glenn Astarita
Legendary British bassist Hugh Hopper steps aside from his duties with Soft Machine Legacy to further his solo career, spanning back to the 1970s during those astounding Canterbury progressive-rock years. Unlike previous endeavors, the bassist integrates elements of the avant modern British jazz scene, largely due to the performance of estimable saxophonist Simon Picard. And speaking ...
Hugh Hopper: Numero D'Vol
by Nic Jones
Hugh Hopper's a busy man as far as recording goes these days, and this one comes more or less immediately after Soft Machine Legacy's Steam on the same label. Comparison between the two perhaps reveals this one as a more varied affair, with the music lacking the air of tension that's such a constructive feature of ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Steam
by Nic Jones
The band name says it all. Three members of this quartet worked at different times in the original Soft Machine whilst the fourth has assumed the mantle once taken by the late and lamented musician, Elton Dean. They've come up with a program of music that pulls off the not inconsiderable feat of acknowledging the legacy ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Steam
by Glenn Astarita
This ensemble's birthright continues via numerous personnel changes over the years as its longstanding members--bassist Hugh Hopper and drummer John Marshall--carry the proverbial torch. With sax great Elton Dean's passing in 2006, Soft Machine Legacy has regrouped and surged onward. Regardless, this effort looms as a milestone of sorts. Multi-woodwind ace Theo Travis' presence ...
D.F.A. (Duty Free Area): Kaleidoscope
by John Kelman
Progressive rock may be an even more marginalized musical genre than jazz, but interest has grown in recent years, largely thanks to the ability of the internet to reach out to an international audience from countries that would, under other circumstances, seem unlikely sources. While largely out of fashion in many countries, it's remained consistently viable ...
simakDialog: Patahan
by John Kelman
Starting out closer to smooth jazz territory, Indonesian simakDialog ("to listen carefully to The Dialog) has come a long way since 1993 to get to Patahan, its first release to see international distribution. Based on the album's episodic and expansive opener, “One Has to Be, first impressions would suggest this Jakarta-based quintet is mining similar turf ...
