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Al Dente
By Soft Heap
Label: Reel Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Fara; Sleeping House; C. R. R. C.; Circle Line; Remain So; One For Lee.
Pam & Gary Windo: Avant Gardeners
by Nic Jones
Here's another excuse to exalt the good people at Reel Recordings for their efforts in sourcing hard-to-find archival material and audio restoration. Time hasn't been kind to Gary Windo in particular, and the scarcity of his recorded legacy makes this remastered release, culled from live recordings from the 1970s, even more important. As a tenor saxophonist, ...
Soft Heap: Al Dente
by Nic Jones
With the exception of drummer Pip Pyle this is the group that recorded 'Rogue Element' (Ogun) in May of 1978. On that occasion the drummer was Dave Sheen and the group was known as Soft Head, which offers a clue as to how the name was arrived at, particularly in view of the presence of Soft ...
Pam and Gary Windo: Avant Gardeners
by Donald Elfman
One second into this collection of '70s performances--one of a small slew of Windo compilation discs released over the past decade--and there's absolutely no question about the kind of terrain these adventurers would be negotiating. Or perhaps to be more accurate, there's every question that this kind of freedom continues to ask.Both Windos--pianist Pam ...
Steve Miller Trio / Elton Dean: Steve Miller Trio Meets Elton Dean
by Nic Jones
Here's another exercise in musical archaeology from Reel and it is worthy of loud and prolonged applause. British pianist Miller was always a worthwhile player, shaping up here as he often did as the British Mal Waldron in terms of his purged-of-excess approach to the keyboard. He always kept sound musical company and the presence of ...
Mike Osborne: Force Of Nature
by Nic Jones
The mercurial nature of alto saxophonist Mike Osborne's musical personality was arguably a difficult thing to capture on record, but here it's caught in all its glory despite the slightly muddy fidelity. Any degree to which he might have been in thrall to both Jackie McLean and Ornette Coleman was no longer an issue by the ...
G. F. Fitz-Gerald & Lol Coxhill: Echoes Of Duneden
by Nic Jones
Here's a dialog constructive enough to last several lifetimes and this is one of the archive releases of the year. Guitarist Fitz-Gerald hasn't been documented on record anywhere near enough, whilst any addition to the Coxhill discography is always welcome, especially when it captures a moment in time as joyously creative as this one. Recorded in ...
Kevin Ayers And The Whole World: Hyde Park Free Concert 1970
by Nic Jones
Thirty-eight years on, and Hyde Park Free Concert 1970 sounds like the kind of thing that would have present day festival goers running for cover from something other than the weather. In other words, it's a set of songs loosely jammed and punctuated by freakouts; a record of a moment in time when audiences expected something ...
Reel Recordings: Progressive Leanings with an Archivist's Care
by Clifford Allen
Reel Recordings crept into the reissue market in 2007, somewhat under the cloak of obscurity, but word is spreading that their CD issues of unearthed archival recordings and rare album reissues are not only audiophile gems for the digital age, but some of the most honest and beautiful-sounding CDs on the market. Unlike some audiophile specialty ...
