Dear friends
Covid-19 is dangerously impacting the social-economic category of musicians. No concerts, poor political and social consideration, uncertain earnings. As a consequence, an ever-growing number of musicians, especially those from the experimental area, are trying to promote their music on BandCamp in digital format only. It is increasingly difficult for me to follow and review this incredible flow of music. I therefore decided to open this section on my blog Neuguitars where I propose music in digital format that I consider particularly interesting and worthy of attention. I hope you like it. Let’s support musicians. They need it.
Andrea Aguzzi
Abracadabra In Osaka (Elton Dean, Allan Holdsworth, Hugh Hopper, John Marshall), MoonJune Records, 2020 on #neuguitars #blog
MOONJUNE’S SOFT WORKS CONSPIRACY
Excerpts taken from the All About Jazz article/interview
‘Leonardo Pavkovic: Nothing Is Ordinary’ by Chris Slawecki
You can read the whole interview on AAJ: bit.ly/2TDkjW6
LP: In 2000, I had this crazy idea to help my old friend Elton Dean, to sort of reform or resurrect the legendary Soft Machine based, in large part, on information I found on the internet about a “one-off” show of the Soft Ware project featuring Elton on sax, Keith Tippett on piano, Hugh Hopper on bass guitar and John Marshall on drums.
So I reconnected with Elton on New Year’s Day, 2000, and in June of that year he performed in New York City at a jazz festival with drummer Joe Gallivan, bassist Marcio Mattos and saxophonist Evan Parker. Elton stayed a few extra days at my place in the East Village, and he also met [my friend, the publicist] Jim Eigo. Perhaps acting on the good vibes of the situation, Elton asked Jim and me if we would be willing to help him with Soft Ware in the US. Elton asked me to talk to Keith Tippett, John Marshall, and Hugh Hopper, who I already knew from his visits to New York. They were all available and excited, except for Keith, who said he would consider it as a possible, occasional special project but not as a… more
credits
released December 4, 2020
ELTON DEAN saxello, alto sax, Fender Rhodes
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH guitar
HUGH HOPPER bass guitar
JOHN MARSHALL drums
Produced by Leonardo Pavkovic.
Recorded live at Namba Hatch, Osaka, Japan, August 11, 2003.
The original source: 2 CDRs with flat stereo-mix of the show.
Carefully restored, enhanced and mastered by Mark Wingfield.
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