Tag Archives: Soft Machine

There Are Great Guitarists – Then There Was Allan Holdsworth

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Paul Carr

I sit here on bank holiday Monday reflecting on the death of Allan Holdworth yesterday at the age of 70. I first heard of Allan in 1977 when I had just started playing music. He had a very minor feature … Continue reading →

Posted in Allan Holdsworth, Musicology | Tagged Allan Holdsworth, Bundles, death, Hazard Profile, Holdsworth, In the Dead of Night., Soft Machine, Tempest, UK | 9 Comments

Matching Mole, Progressive Style, Genre and Protest

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Paul Carr

I attended a really fantastic conference last week on Progressive Rock at Edinburgh University. It was a great opportunity to spend three days listening and thinking about the various factors that make up this genre of music. Here is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Musicology | Tagged Andy Bennett, Bill MacCormick, Canterbury Style, Dave McCrea, Dave Sinclair, Dick Hebdige, Edward Macan, Genre, Group Improvisation, John Covach, John MacDonell, Joseph Stuessy, Little Red Book, Matching Mole, Matching Mole's Little Red Record, Meta Genre, Music, music analysis, phil miller, prog rock, Progressive Rock, pseudo individualism, Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine, Style, The Little Red Songbook | Leave a comment

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