Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men Of Tain (2003) {Special Edition}

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Artist: Allan Holdsworth
Title: The Sixteen Men Of Tain
Year Of Release: 2003
Label: Globe Music Media Arts [GMMA 2200-2]
Genre: Jazz Rock, Fusion
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 53:06
Total Size: 407 MB(+3%) | 126 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. San Onofre
02. 0274
03. Sixteen Men of Tain, The
04. Above and Below
05. Drums Were Yellow, The
06. Texas
07. Downside Up
08. Eidolon
09. Above and Below - (Reprise)
10. Material Unreal

Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men Of Tain (2003) {Special Edition}

personnel :

Alan Holdsworth - guitar synthesizer , guitar
Dave Carpenter - acoustic & electric basses
Gary Novak - drums
Walt Fowler - trumpet on track 2 and 6
Chad Wackerman - drums on 7

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

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