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| Artist: Elton Dean |
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| Label: FMR |
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| Price: $15.95 |
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| Year: 2002 |
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eaturing Elton Dean on alto sax & saxello, Jon Wilkinson on electric guitar and Tony Bianco on drums, piano, bass synth & construction. The late Elton Dean remains the quintessential Canterbury sax hero, playing his magical reeds on the seminal recordings of Soft Machine and the Keith Tippett Group, as well as his own great groups like Just Us, Ninesense and finally Soft Machine Legacy. His death earlier this year leaves a big hole in the beloved Canterbury Collective Scene. Thanks to labels like Cuneiform, Slam, Moonjune, HUX & FMR, for continuing to release diverse discs from Elton Dean and his many projects.
This disc was put together by American-born, British-based drummer Tony Bianco, who has worked with Paul Dunmall and Dave Liebman in the past. Tony has been working on the Freebeat concept since living in Berlin and has created his own long bass loops as the center for this music, adding drums & keyboards, before Elton Dean and guitarist, Jon Wilkinson added their parts and solos. Beginning with "Sideway Dreams", Tony's cerebral, repeating bass synth and drums line has a great, hypnotic groove. As Jon plays dark, dreamy chords, Elton's distinctive alto sax plays a sly, slow solo with a slight bit of echo added as tasty spice. On "Ghost", Tony's nervous, uptempo, oddly funky bass-line inspires Elton to stretch his notes out and take a long, story-like solo, as Jon's also takes a long, evil guitar solo, bending barbed chords until they scream in the distance. Elton almost sounds like he is playing tenor on "Pelham Parkway", his tone is even deeper than usual. Nice to hear that sly saxello sound on "Northern Lights", wjhich spins along quickly, pushing Elton to play spiraling layers of lines. Yeah! "El Che" has a dark undercurrent and more great, passionate soloing from Elton's alto. Although, 'Northern Lights' is much different than anything else we've heard from Elton Dean & Co., it is another off gem to savor. - BLG
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Elton Dean (saxophone); Tony Bianco (drums, piano, bass synthesizer); Jon Wilkinson (guitar) |
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