name	Skúli Sverrisson
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
born	October 23, 1966
origin	Reykjavík, Iceland
instrument	Bass guitar
genre	Jazz, jazz fusion
occupation	Musician, composer
label	Extreme, 12 Tónar
associated acts	Laurie Anderson, Blonde Redhead
website	http://skulisverrisson.com/
notable instruments	}}

Skúli Sverrisson (born 23 October 1966) is an Icelandic composer and bassist residing in New York City.

Over the past two decades, bass guitarist-composer Skuli Sverrisson has worked with a veritable who’s who of the experimental world, from free jazz legends (Wadada Leo Smith, Derek Bailey) to music icons (Lou Reed. Jon Hassel, David Sylvian,  Arto Lindsey) and composers (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Johann Johannsson and Hildur Gudnadottir. Sverrisson is also  known for his work as an artistic director for Olof Arnalds (Innundir Skinni, Vid og Vid), recordings with Blonde Redhead and as a musical director for legendary performance artist Laurie Anderson. He has released a series of duo albums of in collaboration with artists such as Anthony Burr, Oskar Gudjonsson and Hilmar Jensson.  He has been a member of many influential groups including Pachora, Alas No Axis, The Allan Holdworth group and The Ben Monder group.  Sverrisson has also composed music for The Icelandic Dance Company ( Open Source) the National Theatre of Iceland (Volva) and numerous films and installations such as "Welcome" and "Music for furniture" with Olafur Thordason", Spacial Meditation" with Claudia Hill and "When it was Blue" with Jennifer Reeves.  Sverrisson founded Seria, an ongoing ensemble featuring Amedeo Pace (Blonde Redhead),  Olof Arnalds, David Thor Jonsson, Anthony Burr,  Eyvind Kang and Hildur Gudnadottir  in 2005 and released Seria in 2006 and Seria ll in 2010. He has appeared on over 100 recordings and has performed around the world with a wide range of artists.  Recent works include series of live film /music performances with experimental film maker  Jennifer Reeves.  Three new recordings of the ongoing collaboration with Anthony Burr and a new duo recording with Oskar Gudjonsson Sverrisson has been awarded 5 Icelandic Music Awards, including Icelandic Album of the Year for Seria in 2006.

He has worked with numerous musicians and groups, including Hildur Guðnadóttir, Hilmar Jensson, Jim Black, Chris Speed, Anthony Burr, Laurie Anderson, Allan Holdsworth, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Blonde Redhead, Yungchen Lhamo, Jamshied Sharifi, Ólöf Arnalds, Pachora, and Alas No Axis. He was a part of Mo Boma with Jamshied Sharifi and Carsten Tiedemann, releasing 4 albums on Extreme; "Jijimuge", "Myths of the Near Future - Part One", "Myths of the Near Future - Part Two" and "Myths of the Near Future - Part Three".

His solo works include "Seremonie" in 1997 and "Sería" in 2006. "Seria" was chosen as "Best album of the Year" by the Icelandic Music Awards.

His music is featured in the 2008 experimental film ''When It Was Blue'', directed by Jennifer Reeves.

Sverrisson also plays dobro, acoustic bass guitar, and charango, in addition to electric bass. He is currently music director for Laurie Anderson and tours with her internationally.

Discography

* -Secret Stories Full Circle Sony Records 1991

-Poetry of Joseph Kopf Peter Herbert Extraplatte 1992 -Jijimuge Mo Boma Extreme 1992 -Hard Hat Area Allan Holdsworth Restless Records 1993 -Myths of the Near Future I Mo Boma Extreme 1994 -Myths of the Near Future II Mo Boma Extreme 1995 -Dofinn Hilmar Jensson Is Jazz 1995 -Blonde Redhead Blonde Redhead Smells Like Records 1995 -Myths of the Near Future III Mo Boma Extreme 1996 -Espirit Kazume Watanabe Polygram 1996 -Seremonie Skúli Sverrisson Extreme 1997 -Prayer for the Soul of Layla Jamshied Sharifi Alula 1997 -No Boat Ben Monder Songline Records 1997 -Extreme 10 Skúli Sverrisson Extreme 1997 -Kjár Skúli Sverrisson & Hilmar Jensson Bad Taste 1998 -Bushes and Briars Susan McKeown Alula Records 1998 -Pachora Pachora Knitting Factory Works 1998 -Unn Pachora Knitting Factory Works 1998 -Dabilen Harrida Ruper Ordorika Nuevos Medios 1998 -Desist Skuli Sverrisson & Anthony Burr Staalplaat Records 1999 -Yeah No Chris Speed Songlines Records 1999 -Deviantics Chris Speed Songlines Records 1999 -Ast Pachora Knitting Factory Works 1999 -Alas No Axis Jim Black Winter & Winter 2000 -Origami Theo Bleckmann Songlines Records 2000 -The Well Brad Shepik Songlines Records 2000 -Marinade Mark Dresser Tzadik 2000 -In His Own Sweet Way Pachora Avant 2000 -Excavation Ben Monder Arabesque 2000 -Emit Chris Speed Songlines Records 2000 -Life on a String Laurie Anderson Nonesuch Records 2001 -Splay Alas No Axis Winter & Winter 2001 -Klif Jóel Pálsson Omi 2001 -Live at Town Hall Laurie Anderson Nonesuch Records 2001 -Napoli 23 Napoli 23 Bad taste 2001 -After Silence Skúli Sverrisson & Óskar Guðjónsson Omi 2001 -Asterotypical Pachora Winter & Winter 2002 -Iceman Is Terje Isungset Jazzland/Universal 2002 -World Citizen David Sylvian & Ruyichi Sakamoto Samadhisound 2003 -Quartet Lucy John Hollenbeck CRI 2003 -Voice in the Wilderness Pachora Tzadik 2003 -Swell Henry Chris Speed Squealer Records 2004 -Habyor Alas No Axis Winter & Winter 2004 -One Jamshied Sharifi Alula Records 2004 -Misery is a Butterfly Blonde Redhead 4AD 2004 -Virðulegir Forsetar Jóhann Jóhannsson Touch 2005 -Ociana Ben Monder Arabesque 2005 -Marmorere Peter Scherer Peter Scherer 2005 -A 1000 Incidents Arise Skúli Sverrisson & Anthony Burr Worker's Institute 2005 -Dogs of Great Indifference Alas No Axis Winter and Winter 2005 -Ama Yungchen Lhamo Real World 2005 -Bricolage Ruyichi Sakamoto KAB 2006 -Seria Skúli Sverrisson 12 Tonar 2006 -Family Album Kitchen Motors Bad Taste 2006 -23 Blonde Redhead 4AD 2007 -Illusionista Bass instinct Erschienen 2007 -Við og Við Ólof Arnalds 12 tonar 2007 -Jostojoo Mamak Khadem Mamak Khadem 2007 -Cycles Einar Scheving Valdis 2007 -Aero Ghostdigital Bad Taste 2008 -Without Sinking Hildur Guðnadottir Touch 2009 -Iridescence Hildur Guðnadottir Touch 2009 -Houseplant Jim Black Winter and Winter 2009 -Haizea Garizumakoa Ruper Ordoroka Elkar 2009 -Spiritual Dimensions Wadada Leo Smith Cuneiform Records 2009 -Out of Noise Ruyichi Sakamoto KAB 2009 -Butterfly Base Instinct Zappel Music 2010 -Homeland Laurie Anderson Nonesuch 2010 -Innundir Skinni Ólof Arnalds One Little Indian 2010 -Seria ll Skúli Sverrisson Seria Music 2010

References

External links

http://www.xtr.com/artists/skuli-sverrisson/

1992 Video of Skúli Sverrisson playing with Allan Holdsworth and Chad Wackerman

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name	Jojo Mayer
landscape	Yes
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
birth name	Jojo Mayer
born	January 18, 1963Zurich, Switzerland
instrument	Drums
genre	Drum and Bass, Jazz, Jungle, Fusion
occupation	Musician
years active	1981–present
associated acts	Nerve, Screaming Headless Torsos, Intergalactic Maiden Ballet, John Medeski, Meshell Ndegeocello, Dizzy Gillespie, Nina Simone
website	/ Official website
notable instruments	Sonor Drum kit, Sabian Cymbals, Evans Drumheads, Vic Firth Drumsticks }}

Jojo Mayer (born 18 January 1963) is a highly acclaimed Swiss drummer born in Zurich and currently resides in New York City.

Mayer is the son of a touring musician and began his career as a drummer at an early age, receiving his first drum set at the age of two. Having taught himself throughout his childhood, he broke out into the professional music scene at the age of 18, joining the Monty Alexander group. Touring with the group launched him into the major jazz music scene, and he has played at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux, Nice, and Athens etc., which culminated with his gigging with jazz-greats such as Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone. Eventually, after playing with a great variety of artists, Mayer moved away from jazz and into Drum 'n' Bass electronica.

Jojo Mayer is known for bringing together jazz, drum and bass, jungle, and other influences. He is also famous for his ability to play the rhythms of programmed jungle drum 'n' bass music on acoustic drums, terming this technique "reverse engineering", a phrase borrowed from computing. He executes this approach using various methods such as the Heel-toe bass drum technique, the Moeller stroke, and the "pull-out" or "push-pull" accent which takes the beat on the rebound. Using these techniques, he can play beats at astonishing speeds. A few of his main influences are Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette and Buddy Rich.

He is the leader of live electronica trio Nerve, which he founded in 1997.

He played with the guitarist David Fiuczynski in the avant-garde pop rock band Screaming Headless Torsos and in the fusion jazz band, Intergalactic Maiden Ballet.

He ran the popular Prohibited Beatz live electronica party in NYC from 1996-2001.

Discography

With Intergalactic Maiden Ballet:

1992 - ''Square Dance''

1994 - ''Gulf''

With John Medeski:

1994 - ''Lunar Crush''

With Screaming Headless Torsos:

1995 - ''Screaming Headless Torsos''

With Harry Sokal:

1996 - ''Rave the Jazz! :live:''

Sulfur:

1998 - ''Delirium Tremens''

With Depart

2006 - ''Reloaded''

2008 - ''Mountain Messenger''

Jojo Mayer & Nerve:

2007 - ''Prohibited Beats''

2010 - ''EP1''

2010 - ''EP2''

2011 - ''EP3''

2011 - ''The Distance Between Zero And One''

Media

He was featured as the cover story of the January 2008 issue of Modern Drummer magazine. His DVD, ''Secret Weapons for the Modern Drummer'', is a bestseller worldwide.

Jojo Mayer was interviewed by DrummerConnection.com - May 2010 - Jojo Mayer Interview by DrummerConnection.com

Jojo Mayer was interviewed by Linus Wyrsch on "The Jazz Hole" for breakthruradio.com in July 2010 - Jojo Mayer Interview by breakthruradio.com

Gear

Mayer is a long-time Sonor endorser who also uses Sabian cymbals and Vic Firth sticks. He helped Sonor design the Jungle kit and snare. He has also collaborated with Sabian to create two lines of cymbals, the Vault "Fierce" series, and the AAX "Omni" series. His Vault Fierce cymbals feature a raw, unlathed finish, and extensive hand hammering, while the Omnis are designed to function as both rides and crashes. Mayer usually uses birch Sonor drums in the following sizes:

14" and 13" Snare Drum

10" Tom Tom

14" Floor Tom

8" Tom to the right of the Floor Tom

20" or 18" Bass Drum

Sizes may vary primarily based on local drum availability.

For drumheads (all Evans):

14" Hybrid Coated

14" Hazy 300

12" G Plus Clear

12" G Plus Coated

12" Hydraulic Black

12" Hydraulic Glass

For cymbals, he's recently been using (all Sabian):

22" AAX Omni

18" Fierce Crash

18" AAX Omni

13" El Sabor Splash

13" HHX Evolution Top Hi Hat over 14" HHX Evolution Mini-China

10" Fierce Hi Hats

13" Fierce Hi Hats

10" Chopper

External links

Jojo Mayer’s homepage

Jojo Mayer's Nerve Info at Basitours

Myspace Page

JoJo Mayer Interview by DrummerConnection.com - 5 May 2010

References

Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:Swiss musicians Category:Swiss drummers

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name	Ólöf Arnalds
background	solo_singer
origin	Iceland
instrument	Vocals, violin, stroh violin, guitar, charango
years active	2002-present
label	12 Tónar
associated acts	Múm
notable instruments	}}

Ólöf Arnalds (born 1980) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and indie musician who has been active within the Icelandic music scene for quite some time. Apart from her own music and being a touring member of Múm since 2003, she has cooperated with bands and artists such as Stórsveit Nix Noltes, Mugison, Slowblow and Skúli Sverrisson. Between 1988 and 2002 Ólöf studied violin and classical singing, and in 2002-2006 she studied composition and new media at Iceland Academy of the Arts.

In 2007 her debut album ''Við Og Við'' was released by 12 Tónar. The album features a set of songs performed mostly in a traditional troubadour style.

Ólöf's second album is ''Innundir skinni'' and was released in September 2010.

Ólöf's cousin Ólafur Arnalds is also a well known neo-classical composer.

Við og Við

Arnalds' debut album ''Við og Við'' was originally only released in Iceland in 2007 on Tonar, however, it wasn't released until 2009 in the United Kingdom and the USA after she had signed to One Little Indian Records.

However, even before being released on both sides of the Atlantic, word of mouth – including Bjork’s patronage - earned ''Við og Við'' high profile plaudits in the U.S., ranking in Paste Magazine's Top 100 Albums of 2007 and eMusic's editor's Best Albums of 2008 list.

The success of ''Við og Við'' in the US led to Arnalds touring with Blonde Redhead, Jonathan Richman, Björk and The Dirty Projectors and led to her being covered extensively in US publications ranging from ''Vanity Fair'', ''New York Times'', ''Village Voice'' and ''Time Out New York''.

Innundir Skinni

Arnalds' second album ''Innundir Skinni'' was released in 2010 by One Little Indian Records. It marked a departure of her previous work by including three English sung songs, including the single 'Surrender' which features Bjork’s distinctive vocal in the background.

The album was produced by Sigur Ros’ Kjartan Sveinsson and Davíð Þór Jónsson, and featured contributions from Bjork, Skúli Sverrisson (Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed), Shahzad Ismaily (Tom Waits, Plastic Ono Band, Bonnie "Prince" Billy), María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (Amiina) and Ragnar.

Discography

Albums

''Við Og Við'' (12 Tónar, 2007)

''Innundir skinni'' (release September 13, 2010)

Singles

''7" Maria Bethânia/Sveitin milli sanda'' (Aug. 2009)

''7" Innundir skinni/Close My Eyes'' (Jun. 2010)

''7" Crazy Car/Sukiyaki'' (Sept. 2010)

References

External links

Official website

Ólöf Arnalds review at Favorite10.com

Videos of Ólöf Arnalds performing live at lofi.tv

Videos of Ólöf Arnalds performing on KEXP radio, Seattle at brooklynvegan.com

Ólöf Arnalds interview at voixdesgeysers

Category:1980 births Category:Living people Category:Icelandic female singers Category:Icelandic musicians

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Name	Laurie Anderson
Landscape	yes
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Laurel Phillips Anderson
Born	June 05, 1947Glen Ellyn, IllinoisUnited States
Instrument	ViolinSynclavierPercussionVocalist
Genre	Experimental music, art rock
Spouse	Lou Reed
Occupation	Musician, Performance artist
Years active	1975–present
Label	Warner Bros. RecordsNonesuch/Elektra Records
Associated acts	Lou ReedJanice PendarvisDavid Van Tieghem
Website	laurieanderson.com
Notable instruments	}}

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born 5 June 1947 ) is an influential American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance-art activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film ''Home of the Brave''.

Anderson is a pioneer in electronic music and has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot-long baton-like MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds.

Anderson married singer/songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed in 2008.

Early life

Anderson was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, the daughter of Mary Louise (née Rowland) and Arthur T. Anderson. She graduated from Glenbard West High School. She attended Mills College in California, and eventually graduated from Barnard College magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, studying art history. In 1972, she obtained an MFA in sculpture from Columbia University. Her first performance-art piece—a symphony played on automobile horns—was performed in 1969. In 1970, she drew the underground comix Baloney Moccasins, which was published by George DiCaprio. In the early 1970s, she worked as an art instructor, as an art critic for magazines such as ''Artforum'', and illustrated children's books.

1970s

She performed in New York through the 1970s. One of her most-cited performances, ''Duets on Ice'', which she conducted in New York and other cities around the world, involved her playing the violin along with a recording while wearing ice skates with the blades frozen into a block of ice; the performance ended only when the ice had melted away. Two early pieces, "New York Social Life" and "Time to Go," were included in the 1977 compilation ''New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media'', along with works by Pauline Oliveros and others. Two other pieces were included on ''Airwaves'' a collection of audio pieces by artists. She also recorded a lecture for ''Vision'', a set of artist's lectures released by Crown Point Press as a set of 6 LPs.

Many of Anderson's earliest recordings remain unreleased, or were only issued in limited quantities, such as her first single, "It's Not the Bullet that Kills You (It's the Hole)". That song, along with "New York Social Life" and about a dozen others, were originally recorded for use in an art installation that consisted of a jukebox that played the different Anderson compositions, at the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York City. Among the musicians on these early recordings are Peter Gordon on saxophone, Scott Johnson on guitar, Ken Deifik on harmonica, and Joe Kos on drums. Photographs and descriptions of many of these early performances were included in Anderson's retrospective book, ''Stories from the Nerve Bible''.

During the late 1970s, Anderson made a number of additional recordings that were released either privately or included on compilations of avant-garde music, most notably releases by the Giorno Poetry Systems label run by New York poet John Giorno, an early intimate of Andy Warhol. Among the Giorno-released recordings was ''You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With'', a double-album shared with Giorno and William Burroughs (the original release had one LP side for each artist, with the fourth side triple-grooved, one for each, so you'd get a different one, depending on where you put the needle down). In 1978, Anderson performed at The Nova Convention, a major conference involving many counter-culture figures and rising avant-garde musical stars, including William S. Burroughs, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, Timothy Leary, Malcolm Goldstein, John Cage, and Allen Ginsberg. She also worked with comedian Andy Kaufman in the late 1970s.

1980s

Anderson became widely known outside the art world in 1981 with the single "O Superman", originally released in a limited quantity by B. George's One Ten Records. The song reached number two on the national pop charts in Britain after the sudden influx of orders from the UK (prompted by British radio station Radio Clyde playlisting the record) and led to Anderson's signing a 7-album deal with Warner Bros. Records, which re-released the single.

"O Superman" was part of a larger stage work titled ''United States'' and was included on the album ''Big Science''. Prior to the release of ''Big Science'', Anderson returned to Giorno Poetry Systems to record the album ''You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With''; Anderson recorded one side of the 2-LP set, with William S. Burroughs and John Giorno recording a side each, and the fourth side featured a separate groove for each artist. This was followed by the back-to-back releases of her albums ''Mister Heartbreak'' and ''United States Live'', the latter of which was a five-LP (and, later, 4-CD) recording of her 2-evening stage show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She also appeared in a television special produced by Nam June Paik broadcast on New Years Day 1984, entitled Good Morning Mr. Orwell (the title being inspired by Orwell's novel 1984).

She next starred in and directed the 1986 concert film ''Home of the Brave'' and also composed the soundtracks for the Spalding Gray films ''Swimming to Cambodia'' and ''Monster in a Box''. During this time she also contributed music to Robert Wilson's "Alcestis" at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also hosted the PBS series ''Alive from Off-Center'' during this time, for which she produced the short film ''What You Mean We?'' Release of Anderson's first post-''Home of the Brave'' album, 1989's ''Strange Angels'', was delayed for more than a year in order for Anderson to take singing lessons. This was due to the album being more musically inclined (in terms of singing) than her previous works.

1990s

In 1991, she was a member of the jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. In the same year, Anderson appeared in ''The Human Face'', a feature arts documentary directed by artist-filmmakers Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson for BBC TV. Anderson was the presenter in this documentary on the history of the face in art and science. Her face was transformed using latex masks and digital special effects as she introduced ideas about the relationship between physiognomy and perception. Her varied career in the early 1990s included voice-acting in the animated film ''The Rugrats Movie''. In 1994 she created a CD-ROM titled ''Puppet Motel'', which was followed by ''Bright Red'', co-produced by Brian Eno, and another spoken-word album, ''The Ugly One with the Jewels''. This was then followed by an appearance on the 1997 charity single ''Perfect Day''.

In 1996, Anderson performed with Diego Frenkel (La Portuária) and Aterciopelados for the AIDS benefit album ''Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin'' produced by the Red Hot Organization.

An interval of more than half a decade followed before her next album release. During this time, she wrote a supplemental article on the cultural character of New York City for the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' and created a number of multimedia presentations, most notably one inspired by ''Moby-Dick'' (''Songs and Stories From Moby Dick'', 1999–2000). One of the central themes in Anderson's work is exploring the effects of technology on human relationships and communication.

2000s

''Life on a String'', appeared in 2001, by which time she signed a new contract with another Warner Music label, Nonesuch Records. ''Life on a String'' was a mixture of new works (including one song recalling the recent death of her father) and works from the ''Moby Dick'' presentation. In 2001, she recorded the audiobook version of Don DeLillo's novel ''The Body Artist''. Anderson, who rarely revisits older work (though themes and lyrics occasionally reappear), went on tour performing a selection of her best-known musical pieces in 2001. One of these performances was recorded in New York City only a week after the September 11, 2001, attacks, and included a performance of "O Superman." This concert was released in early 2002 as the double CD ''Live in New York''.

In 2003, Anderson became NASA's first artist-in-residence, which inspired her performance piece, ''The End of the Moon''. She mounted a succession of themed shows and composed a piece for Expo 2005 in Japan. In 2005, Anderson visited Russia’s space programme – the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre and mission control – with The Arts Catalyst and took part in The Arts Catalyst’s Space Soon event at the Roundhouse to reflect on her experiences. She was part of the team that created the opening ceremony for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Later that year, she collaborated with the choreographer Trisha Brown and filmmaker Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo on the acclaimed multimedia project ''O Zlozony/O Composite'' for the Paris Opera Ballet. The ballet premiered at the Opera Garnier in Paris in December 2004. Anderson has also collaborated with William S. Burroughs, Jean Dupuy, Arto Lindsay, Bill Laswell, Ian Ritchie, Peter Gabriel, Perry Hoberman, David Sylvian, Jean Michel Jarre, Brian Eno, Phillip Glass, Nona Hendryx, Bobby McFerrin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dave Stewart, Peter Laurence Gordon, Adrian Belew, Hector Zazou, and Lou Reed.

Since the latter part of the 1990s Anderson and Lou Reed have collaborated on a number of recordings together. Anderson contributed to "Call on Me" from Reed's collaborative project ''The Raven'', on the tracks "Rouge" and "Rock Minuet" from Reed's ''Ecstasy'', and "Hang on to Your Emotions" from Reed's ''Set the Twilight Reeling''; Lou Reed contributes to the tracks "In Our Sleep" from Laurie Anderson's ''Bright Red'' and "One Beautiful Evening" from Anderson's ''Life on a String''. They were married on April 12, 2008 in a private ceremony in Boulder, Colorado.

In 2005, her exhibition ''The Waters Reglitterized'' opened at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City. According to the press release by Sean Kelly, the work is a diary of dreams and their literal recreation as works of art. This work, created in the process of re-experiencing or re-working her dreams while awake, uses the language of dreams to investigate the dream itself. The resulting pieces include drawings, prints, and high-definition video. The installation ran until October 22, 2005. In 2006, she contributed a song to ''Plague Songs'', a collection of songs related to the 10 Biblical plagues.

Laurie Anderson narrated Ric Burns's ''Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film'', which was first televised in September 2006 as part of the PBS ''American Masters'' series. Anderson also performed in Came So Far for Beauty, the Leonard Cohen tribute event held in the Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, on October 4–5, 2006. Recent releases include a re-release of her first album, ''Big Science'' on Nonesuch Records, a book of drawings titled ''Night Life'', and a brand new album released in 2010 called ''Homeland''.

Material from ''Homeland'' was performed at small work-in-progress shows in New York throughout May 2007, most notably at the Highline Ballroom on May 17–18, supported by a 4-piece band with spontaneous lighting and video visuals mixed live throughout the performances by Willie Williams and Mark Coniglio, respectively. A European tour of the ''Homeland'' work in progress took place during the late summer and fall of 2007, including performances on September 28 and September 29, 2007, at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin; on October 17–19 at the Melbourne International Arts Festival; in Russia at the Moscow Dom Muzyky concert-hall on April 26, 2008. The work was performed across the Atlantic in Toronto, Canada, June 14, 2008, with husband Lou Reed, making the "Lost Art of Conversation" a duet with vocals and guitar, with his ambling style contrasting with Anderson's tightly wound performance. Anderson's ''Homeland Tour'' performed at several locations across the United States as well, such as at the Ferst Center for the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia; The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, New York; and Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois, co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Anderson was awarded the 2007 Gish Prize for her "outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to humankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life."

2010s

In February 2010, Laurie Anderson premièred a new theatrical work, entitled ''Delusion'', at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. This piece was commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and the Barbican Centre, London.

In May/June 2010, Anderson curated the Vivid Sydney festival in Sydney, Australia together with Lou Reed. Her new album ''Homeland'' was released on June 22.

She performed "Only an Expert" on July 15, 2010 on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'', and her song "Gravity's Angel" was featured on the Fox TV show ''So You Think You Can Dance'' on the same day.

She appears as a guest musician on several tracks from experimental jazz musician Colin Stetson's 2011 album ''New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges''.

Inventions

Anderson has invented several experimental musical instruments that she has used in her recordings and performances.

Tape-bow violin

The tape-bow violin is an instrument created by Laurie Anderson in 1977. It uses recorded magnetic tape in place of the traditional horsehair in the bow, and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. Anderson has updated and modified this device over the years. She can be seen using a later generation of this device in her film ''Home of the Brave'' during the "Late Show" segment in which she manipulates a sentence recorded by William S. Burroughs. This version of the violin discarded magnetic tape and instead used MIDI-based audio samples, triggered by contact with the bow.

Talking stick

The talking stick is a 6-foot-long baton-like MIDI controller. It was used in the ''Moby-Dick'' tour in 1999–2000. She described it in program notes as follows:

Voice filters

A recurring motif in Anderson's work is the use of a voice filter which deepens her voice into a masculine register, a technique which Anderson has referred to as "audio drag". Anderson has long used the resulting character in her work as a "voice of authority" or conscience, although she later decided that he had lost much of his authority and instead began utilizing the voice to provide historical or sociopolitical commentary, as he does on "Another Day in America", a piece from her 2010 album ''Homeland''.

For much of Anderson's career, the character was nameless or actually called the Voice of Authority, although more recently, he was dubbed Fenway Bergamot from Reed's suggestion. The cover of ''Homeland'' depicts Anderson in character as Bergamot, with streaks of black makeup to give her a moustache and thick, masculine eyebrows.

In "The Cultural Ambassador", a piece on her album ''The Ugly One with the Jewels'', Anderson explained some of her perspective on the character:

Discography

(with US and UK chart positions)

Studio Albums

''Big Science'' (1982) US #124 UK #29 ''Mister Heartbreak'' (1984) US #60 UK #93

The single "Sharkey's Day" was for many years the theme song of Lifetime Television. Anderson also recorded a number of limited-release singles in the late 1970s (many issued from the Holly Soloman Gallery), songs from which were included on a number of compilations, including Giorno Poetry Systems' ''The Nova Convention'' and ''You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With''. Over the years she has also performed on recordings by other musicians such as Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, and Jean Michel Jarre. She also contributed lyrics to the Philip Glass album ''Songs for Liquid Days'', she also contributed a spoken-word piece to a tribute album in honor of John Cage.

Music videos

Formal music videos have been produced of

"O Superman"

"Sharkey's Day"

"Language is a Virus" (from ''Home of the Brave'')

"Beautiful Red Dress"

In addition, in lieu of making another music video for her ''Strange Angels'' album, Anderson taped a series of 1- to 2-minute Public Service Announcements in which she spoke about issues such as the U.S. national debt and the arts scene. Some of the music used in these productions came from her soundtrack of ''Swimming to Cambodia''. The PSAs were frequently shown between music videos on VH-1 in early 1990.

Films

# ''Dearreader: How to Turn a Book Into a Movie'' - 1974 # ''System ohne Schatten/Closed Circuit'' - 1983 # ''Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson'' - 1986 # ''What You Mean We?'' - 1987 # ''Hotel Deutschland'' - 1992 # ''The Rugrats Movie'' - 1998 (provided character voice) # ''Life on a String'' - 2002 # ''Hidden Inside Mountains'' - 2006

Television

# ''Saturday Night Live'' - musical guest, 1986 # ''Alive from Off Center'' - host, 1987

Audiobooks

# ''The Path to Tranquility'' by His Holiness the Dalai Lama - co-narrator, 1999 # ''The Body Artist'' by Don DeLillo - sole narrator, 2001

Bibliography

''United States'' (HarperCollins, 1984) ISBN 0-06-091110-7

''Stories from the Nerve Bible: A Twenty-Year Retrospective'' (HarperCollins, 1994) ISBN 0-06-055355-3

''Dal Vivo'' (Fondazione Prada, 1999) ISBN 88-87029-10-5

''Night Life'' (Edition 7L, 2007) ISBN 3-86521-339-1

References

Further reading

Golden, Barbara. “Conversation with Laurie Anderson.” ''eContact! 12.2 — Interviews (2)'' (April 2010). Montréal: CEC.

mite. “Talking with Laurie Anderson.” ''Mutant Renegade Zine'' #7, June 1996.

Nicom, John. “Homeland insecurity: Laurie Anderson takes uncompromising look at how America has changed.” ''LJWorld.com''. 12 September 2008.

External links

Some Notes on Seeing: The Waters Reglitterized By Laurie Anderson for exhibition 2005

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name	Allan Holdsworth
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
born	August 06, 1946Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
instrument	Electric guitar, SynthAxe, acoustic guitar, violin, vocals
genre	Jazz fusion, jazz, free jazz, instrumental rock, progressive rock
occupation	Musician, composer, producer
years active	1969–present
label	CTI, JMS–Cream, Luna Crack, I.O.U., Warner Bros., Enigma, Relativity, Intima, Legato, Restless, Polydor, Fred Bloggs, Gnarly Geezer, Megazoidal, Sony, Favored Nations, Alternity
associated acts	HoBoLeMa, UK, Level 42, Gong, Bruford, Soft Machine, The New Tony Williams Lifetime, Tempest, I.O.U., False Alarm
website	therealallanholdsworth.com
notable instruments	SynthAxeIbanez AH-10Ibanez AH-20Steinberger GL2TA-AHCarvin H2Carvin HF2 FatboyCharvel Allan Holdsworth }}

Allan Holdsworth (born 6 August 1946) is an English guitarist and composer. He has released twelve studio albums as a solo artist and played many different styles of music over a period of four decades, but first drew attention for his work in jazz fusion. A player noted for his advanced knowledge of the fretboard and innovative playing, he is cited as an influence by such renowned rock and instrumental guitarists as Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Greg Howe, Shawn Lane, Richie Kotzen and John Petrucci. Frank Zappa once called Holdsworth "one of the most interesting guys on guitar on the planet".

Recording career

Early bands ('Igginbottom, Sunship, Tempest)

Holdsworth first recorded with the band 'Igginbottom on their lone release, ''Igginbottom's Wrench'' (later reissued under the group name of "Allan Holdsworth & Friends"), in 1969. In 1971, Holdsworth joined Sunship, an improvising band also featuring Alan Gowen, Laurie Baker and future King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir. The band played live but never recorded any records.

In the early 1970s Holdsworth joined the British progressive rock band Tempest, and performed on their self-titled debut studio album in 1973. His playing can also be heard on a live BBC Radio concert from the same year, which was released in 2005 as part of a Tempest compilation album entitled ''Anthology: Under the Blossom''.

Journeyman years (1974-1977)

Following his short tenure with Tempest, Holdsworth worked with various well-known progressive rock and jazz fusion artists. In 1974 he played on the Soft Machine studio album ''Bundles'' and with The New Tony Williams Lifetime on the ''Believe It'' album, an experience he was to prize. In 1976 he played with Gong (contributing to their ''Gazeuse'' and ''Expresso II'' albums) and with Jean-Luc Ponty on ''Enigmatic Ocean''.

In 1976, CTI Records released a recording of a rehearsal session, passing it off as an official recording, under the title of ''Velvet Darkness''. This angered Holdsworth, who says he still loathes the album intensely.

Bruford, UK, and other (1977-1979)

In 1977, Holdsworth was recruited by progressive rock drummer Bill Bruford to play most of the guitar on Bruford's first (and jazz fusion-influenced) solo album ''Feels Good to Me''.

Shortly afterwards, Bruford was recruited into a new, second-wave British progressive rock band - UK, which was fronted by Bruford's former King Crimson bandmate John Wetton. When Wetton recruited the virtuosic and classically-influenced Eddie Jobson (ex-Roxy Music/Frank Zappa) into UK on keyboards and violin, Bruford in turn recruited Holdsworth as a jazzier "counterweight". Both the Bruford and UK debut albums were released in early 1978, with the latter rapidly eclipsing the former in terms of profile and marketing. Holdsworth's second spell as a potential progressive rock star was as short as the first. Chafing at the more composed and predictable elements to UK's music, he objected to being expected to play the same solos every night. Despite his musical fluidity and virtuosity, this approach did not suit John Wetton, who fired him from the band. Bruford quit in sympathy or was also fired (depending on accounts). Holdsworth would later stress that although he'd not enjoyed his time in the band he'd liked and respected everyone involved and that the problems were "purely musical".

While UK continued with different musicians, Bruford returned to the core lineup of his solo album as the band Bruford, and retained Holdsworth as its guitarist. The fist album under that name (''One Of A Kind'', recorded and released in early 1979) featured extensive contributions by Holdsworth, but the guitarist was by now tired of being a sideman and decided to follow his own course. Following the band's first British tour, Holdsworth quit, although not without reluctance.

1980s

Holdsworth's next significant collaborator was jazz pianist Gordon Beck, with whom he first played on Beck's ''Sunbird'' album in 1979. Their first proper collaboration, ''The Things You See'', followed in 1980, which was a largely similar effort without percussion or bass. Both musicians would later work together again in the decades to come. Soon afterwards, Holdsworth joined up with drummer Gary Husband and bassist Paul Carmichael as a trio, in what became known as False Alarm. This was to be Holdsworth's first outing as a bandleader and, after the acquisition of former Tempest singer Paul Williams, the band was renamed I.O.U. Their self-titled debut album, ''I.O.U.'', was released independently in 1982, followed by a mainstream reissue through Enigma Records in 1985.

Immediately after ''I.O.U.'''s release, Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen brought Holdsworth to the attention of Warner Bros. Records executive Mo Ostin. Van Halen had previously enthused about Holdsworth in a 1980 issue of ''Guitar Player'' magazine, saying "That guy is bad! He's fantastic; I love him", and that Holdsworth was "[t]he best, in my book". This resulted in the Warner Bros. release of ''Road Games'' in 1983. It was produced by longtime Van Halen executive producer Ted Templeman, and received a Grammy Award nomination in 1984. Holdsworth, however, has always disliked the EP because of various creative issues which arose with Templeman. At the time, the latest incarnation of the I.O.U. band consisted of drummer Chad Wackerman (who would become a regular Holdsworth bandmember for the next three decades) and bassist Jeff Berlin. Former Cream singer Jack Bruce provided vocal duties, as well as a returning Paul Williams.

Having relocated permanently to Southern California and acrimoniously parted ways with Warner Bros., Holdsworth signed to Enigma for the 1985 release of ''Metal Fatigue'' (along with the aforementioned ''I.O.U.'' reissue). It was at this time that Flim & the BB's bassist Jimmy Johnson joined the band and, like Wackerman, has remained a consistent bandmember to this day. Making his last appearance on vocals was Paul Williams, with whom Holdsworth claims to have fallen out due to the selling of live bootlegs by the former.

The ''Atavachron'' album in 1986 was a landmark, in that it was the first to feature Holdsworth's work with a brand new instrument named the SynthAxe. This unusually designed MIDI controller (albeit not a guitar synthesizer) would become a staple of Holdsworth's playing for the next fifteen years, during which he would effectively become the public face of the instrument. The next year saw a fourth album, ''Sand'', which featured no vocals and showcased further SynthAxe experimentation. A second collaboration with Gordon Beck followed in 1988, with ''With a Heart in My Song''.

In the late 1980s, Holdsworth set up his own recording studio—The Brewery—in San Diego, California, which would become one of the recording locations for all of his studio albums beginning with ''Secrets'' (1989) and throughout the 1990s. In a 2005 interview, however, he stated that he no longer owned the studio following his divorce in 1999. The aforementioned ''Secrets'' introduced pianist Steve Hunt, who went on to play keyboard on two further albums, and as a member of Holdsworth's touring band.

1990s

A collaboration in 1990 with fusion guitarist Frank Gambale came about in the form of ''Truth in Shredding'', an ambitious studio project put together by Mark Varney (brother of Shrapnel Records founder Mike Varney) through his Legato Records label. In December of that year, following the death of Level 42 guitarist Alan Murphy in 1989, Holdsworth was recruited by the band to play as a guest musician during a series of concerts at London's Hammersmith Odeon. With former I.O.U. partner Gary Husband now being the drummer for Level 42, these factors all led to Holdsworth contributing guitarwork on five tracks on their 1991 album, ''Guaranteed''.

Holdsworth's first solo album of the decade was 1992's ''Wardenclyffe Tower'', which continued to feature the SynthAxe but also displayed his newfound interest in self-designed baritone guitars (built by luthier Bill DeLap). With the release of ''Hard Hat Area'' in 1994, Holdsworth's touring band for that and the following year was composed of Steve Hunt, Gary Husband and bassist Skúli Sverrisson. A collaboration in 1996 with brothers Anders and Jens Johansson resulted in the hard-edged funky, bluesy, odd time signature-laden ''Heavy Machinery''. In the same year, he was once again joined by Gordon Beck on ''None Too Soon'', which featured interpretations of a selection of his favourite jazz standards, including The Beatles' Norwegian Wood.

2000s

The decade began positively with the deeply jazz-orientated ''The Sixteen Men of Tain'' in 2000, but it turned out to be Holdsworth's last album recorded at The Brewery. Immediately afterwards, he abruptly slowed down his solo output due to events within his personal life. A pair of official live albums, ''All Night Wrong'' and ''Then!'', were released in 2002 and 2003, respectively, along with a double compilation album, ''The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock'', in 2005. His eleventh album, ''Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie'', was released in 2001 and remains his most recent studio effort. According to Holdsworth, a new studio album entitled ''Snakes and Ladders'' was slated for a 2008 release on guitarist Steve Vai's Favored Nations label, but as of 2011 this has not come about. Further new material featuring Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Johnson was also said to be in the works. In a 2010 interview, he again claimed to have enough material for two albums, which he planned to begin recording after a show in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Throughout the latter half of the decade, he toured both North America and Europe extensively, and has played as a guest on albums by numerous artists: most notably with former Dream Theater keyboardist Derek Sherinian on ''Mythology'' (2004) and ''Quantum'' (2007); the latter with Sherinian's progressive metal group Planet X. In 2006, he performed with pianist Alan Pasqua, Chad Wackerman and bassist Jimmy Haslip as part of a live tribute act in honour of late drummer Tony Williams. A DVD (''Live at Yoshi's'') and a double album (''Blues for Tony'') were released in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Throughout 2008–2010, he toured with drummers Terry Bozzio and Pat Mastelotto, and bassist Tony Levin as HoBoLeMa, a supergroup playing improvised experimental music.

Compositions and style

Holdsworth's solo compositions are primarily instrumental, but vocals were prominent on all his 1980s albums except ''Sand''. Two of his most recurring singers were Paul Williams (featured on ''I.O.U.'', ''Road Games'' and ''Metal Fatigue'') and Rowanne Mark (''Atavachron'' and ''Secrets''). Additionally, he himself sang on '''Igginbottom's Wrench'' and ''The Things You See''. In his early career he occasionally played violin (on ''Velvet Darkness'', ''Sunbird'', ''The Things You See'' and ''I.O.U.'') and acoustic guitar (on ''Velvet Darkness'', ''U.K.'', ''Gazeuse'' and ''Metal Fatigue''), but claims to not be proficient at the latter; this is due to it being percussive, and hence a lack of desire to play such an instrument.

He has a distinctive playing style that involves a strong scalar sense, combining elements of jazz and progressive rock. The harmonic structure of his pieces can be highly abstruse, with frequently shifting tonal centres, and his soloing follows from a self-taught advanced modal framework derived directly from his unusually-voiced chords. His phrasing almost always features striking yet subtle transitions between notes that often work to defeat a listener's expections of consonance and dissonance, with wide and unpredictable intervallic leaps. Whilst soloing, he predominantly uses various legato techniques such as slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs (the latter being a personalised method which works more akin to a 'reversed' hammer-on); all of which result in an extremely fluid lead sound. One of the reasons for his renowned emphasis on legato, as opposed to picking, stems from a desire to make the sound between picked and legato notes indistinguishable.

Another of his most identifiable traits is the use of rich, fingerpicked chords (often awash with delay, chorus and other complex effects), which are articulated and sustained using volume swells to create sounds reminiscent of the horn and saxophone. He has said that he prefers both of the aforementioned to the guitar, which was not his first choice of instrument upon receiving one from his father when beginning to play. It was because of this unfamiliarity with the guitar, combined with attempting to make it sound more like a saxophone, that he originally began to use legato without realising that it was not a common method of playing at the time. Furthermore, he was influenced greatly by such saxophonists as John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Michael Brecker and Charlie Parker, whilst some of his favourite guitarists were Django Reinhardt, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Raney, Charlie Christian and Hank Marvin.

Equipment

Over the course of his career, Holdsworth has worked with many different guitar manufacturers in a lifelong quest to evolve his unique sound. From the late 1960s and through to his time spent with Tony Williams in the mid-1970s, his main instrument was the Gibson SG. He then switched to playing custom Fender Stratocaster guitars that were modified with humbucker pickups. He continued to play this type of design in the early 1980s, developing custom models with Charvel and Jackson that feature on ''I.O.U.'' and ''Road Games''.

In 1984, he developed his first signature guitars with Ibanez, known as the AH-10 and AH-20. These instruments have a semi-hollow body made from basswood with a hollow cavity underneath the pickguard, and can be heard on ''Metal Fatigue'' and ''Atavachron''. In 1987, he began his long association with Steinberger guitars, which are made from graphite and carbon fibre, and distinctively have no headstock. With designer Ned Steinberger, he developed the GL2TA-AH signature model. In the 1990s, he started playing customised headless guitars made by luthier Bill DeLap, including an extended-range baritone model which had a 38-inch scale length. However, he now only owns one of the latter instruments (with a 34-inch scale). He has also developed a line of signature guitars with Carvin, including the semi-hollow H2 in 1996 and the completely hollow HF2 Fatboy in 1999.

On his 1986 release, ''Atavachron'', Holdsworth first recorded with the SynthAxe; a fretted, guitar-like MIDI controller with keys and string triggers instead of a strung neck, and a tube that dynamically alters note volume and tone via breathing (similar to a talk box). Sound-wise, he uses patches which are mainly Oberheim synthesizers, as he considers them to be "great sounds". Although he has used the SynthAxe on all his solo releases since ''Atavachron'', and still enjoys using his two remaining ones in the studio, he says he no longer wishes to make it such an integral part of his playing—especially live—mainly because of it being so rare, and difficult to maintain and repair as a result.

Personal life

Holdsworth has lived in California permanently since the early 1980s, and often mentions cycling as one of his favourite pastimes. He is also a keen aficionado of beer, with a particular fondness for Northern English ale. Such is his taste for ale that he went as far as experimenting with brewing his own in the 1990s and inventing a specialised beer pump—"The Fizzbuster"—which, in his own words, creates "a beautiful creamy head". He has three children with ex-wife Claire named Louise, Samuel (named after Allan's father) and Emily; all three live in Southern California. He has a daughter from his first marriage to Angela Slater named Lynne, who resides in England. He became a Grandfather in December of 2010 when his daughter Louise gave birth to a baby girl named Rori.

Discography

Studio albums

1976: ''Velvet Darkness''

1982: ''I.O.U.''

1983: ''Road Games'' (EP)

1985: ''Metal Fatigue''

1986: ''Atavachron''

1987: ''Sand''

1989: ''Secrets

1992: ''Wardenclyffe Tower''

1993: ''Hard Hat Area''

1996: ''None Too Soon''

2000: ''The Sixteen Men of Tain''

2001: ''Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie''

2005: ''The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock'' (compilation)

Live albums

1997: ''I.O.U. Live''

2002: ''All Night Wrong''

2003: ''Then!''

Collaboration albums

1980: ''The Things You See'' – with Gordon Beck

1988: ''With a Heart in My Song'' – with Gordon Beck

1990: ''Truth in Shredding'' – with Frank Gambale/The Mark Varney Project

1996: ''Heavy Machinery'' – with Jens Johansson and Anders Johansson

2009: ''Blues for Tony'' – with Alan Pasqua, Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip (live double album)

Other album appearances

1969: '''Igginbottom's Wrench'' – 'Igginbottom

1972: ''Belladona'' – Nucleus

1973: ''Tempest'' – Tempest

1975: ''Bundles'' – Soft Machine

1975: ''Believe It'' – The New Tony Williams Lifetime

1976: ''Million Dollar Legs'' – The New Tony Williams Lifetime

1976: ''Gazeuse! – Gong

1976: ''Capricorn Princess'' – Esther Phillips

1977: ''Re-Touch & Quartet'' – John Stevens

1977: ''Enigmatic Ocean'' – Jean-Luc Ponty

1978: ''Expresso II'' – Gong

1978: ''Feels Good to Me'' – Bruford

1978: ''U.K.'' – U.K.

1978: ''Live In Boston'' – U.K.

1978: ''Touching On'' – John Stevens

1979: ''One of a Kind'' – Bruford

1979: ''Time is the Key'' – Pierre Moerlen's Gong

1979: ''Sunbird'' – Gordon Beck

1980: ''Conversation Piece'' – John Stevens

1981: ''Land of Cockayne'' – Soft Machine

1983: ''Individual Choice'' – Jean-Luc Ponty

1983: ''Retouch'' – John Stevens

1984: ''Transatlantic'' – Jon St. James

1986: ''Soma'' – Soma

1986: ''Master Strokes 1978-1985'' – Bill Bruford

1986: ''Change of Address'' – Krokus

1986: ''Fast Impressions'' – Jon St. James

1988: ''Radio Free Albemuth'' – Stuart Hamm

1988: ''If This Bass Could Only Talk'' – Stanley Clarke

1988: ''No Borders'' – Carl Verheyen

1988: ''The Distance Between'' – Strange Advance

1989: ''Attack of the Neon Shark'' – Alex Masi

1989: ''A Question of Time'' – Jack Bruce

1989: ''Guitar's Practicing Musicians'' – various artists

1990: ''Silent Will'' – Andrea Marcelli

1990: ''Blue Tav'' – Steve Tavaglione

1991: ''Love in Peace'' – Paz

1991: ''Forty Reasons'' – Chad Wackerman

1991: ''Guaranteed'' – Level 42

1992: ''Lone Ranger'' – Jeff Watson

1993: ''The View'' – Chad Wackerman

1993: ''Come Together: Guitar Tribute to the Beatles'' – various artists

1995: ''Suffer'' – Gongzilla

1995: ''Oneness'' – Andrea Marcelli

1995: ''Worlds Away & Back'' – Strange Advance

1996: ''Stare'' – Gorky Park

1997: ''From Your Heart and Your Soul'' – Steve Hunt

1997: ''Blue Tav'' – Steve Tavaglione

2002: ''Pray for Rain'' – Atlantis

2003: ''BBC Radio 1971-1974'' – Soft Machine

2003: ''Abracadabra'' – Soft Works

2004: ''Sonic Undertow'' – Riptyde

2004: ''Mythology'' – Derek Sherinian

2004: ''Book of the Dead'' – K2

2005: ''The State of Things'' – David Garfield & Friends

2005: ''Nebula'' – David Hines

2005: ''Anthology: Under the Blossom'' – Tempest

2006: ''Deconstruction of a Postmodern Musician'' – Corrado Rustici

2006: ''Floating World Live'' – Soft machine

2007: ''Prowlin''' – Dan Carlin & Friends

2007: ''Quantum'' – Planet X

2007: ''The Acatama Experience'' – Jean-Luc Ponty

2007: ''Rock Goes to College'' – Bruford

2008: ''Progasaurus'' – Chris Buck

2008: ''Everyone Knows My Drinking, No One Knows My Thirst'' – Eric Keyes

2009: ''Highway Star'' – Snew

2009: ''The Early Years'' – Paul Korda

2009: ''Propensity'' – John Stevens and Danny Thompson (originally recorded in 1978)

2010: ''Living It Up'' – Level 42

2011: ''Dirty & Beautiful: Volume I'' – Gary Husband

VHS video releases

1992: ''REH Instructional: Allan Holdsworth'' (guitar instructional, reissued on DVD format in 2007)

1997: ''Drums & Improvisation'' – Gary Husband (Holdsworth is interviewed and contributes to three songs)

DVD video releases

2002: ''Live at the Galaxy Theatre''

2005: ''Carvin: 60 Years in the Making'' (features an extended interview with Holdsworth, amongst others)

2006: ''Rock Goes to College'' – Bruford

2007: ''Live at Yoshi's''

Books

Transcriptions and sheet music. Transcriptions, sheet music and accompanying CD. Reference tables and diagrams.

References

External links

Official website

Discography at Discogs

Jazz Guitar Online: "Allan Holdsworth's Guitar Gear"

MP3 clip of a SynthAxe solo on ''Radio Free Albemuth'' at Guitar Nine Records

Allan Holdsworth Style Legato Pattern

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