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Artist:
SOFT HEAP
Title:
Al Dente
Label:
REEL RECORDINGS (CANADA)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
REELR 008CD
This is a rare concert recording of
Soft Heap
-- the personal acronym for an assemblage of old UK musician friends who assembled at the Phoenix Club in London in 1978. Bass guitarist
Hugh Hopper
and saxophonist
Elton Dean
(1950-2006) began their long musical partnership during their days with the classic
Soft Machine
quartet. Keyboardist
Alan Gowen
(1947-1981) and drummer
Pip Pyle
(1945-2006) became friends when their respective bands,
Gilgamesh
and
Hatfield & The North
, coalesced for special concerts in 1973. Apart from their eponymous record, Soft Heap only gave two concerts in London prior to Alan and Pip reconvening to carry on as
National Health
. Fortunately, their appearance at London's then-premier jazz club, The Phoenix, was recorded onto reel-to-reel tape by audience member
Roy Wilbraham
. It preserves a striking set of compositions played with panache, beginning with a tender reading of Elton's "Fara" and climaxing with an exhilarating chase through "Seven For Lee." The recording also reveals a hitherto unreleased composition, Alan Gowen's "Sleeping House." This full-length CD is one tasty listening experience, for those with a soft spot for Soft Heap, to sink their teeth into.
Artist:
SOFT HEAP
Title:
Label:
SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
SPA 14839
"Solo adventures from the Soft Machine's Hugh Hopper & Elton Dean, associated to Pip Pyle and Alen Goven. This is avant-garde melodical jazz with great musicians. Not so far from John Zorn at some moments. A very good but forgotten record." From 1979.
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