Friday 23 December 2022

Tempest with Allan Holdsworth, from 1973









I was going through the Allan Holdsworth discography when I came upon this one, I had never heard before. Again some really enjoyable protoprog material with vocals, no fusion really.  Consider the lovely grinding hard rock electric guitar tritones of the song called Brothers and the subsequent upgoing chord progression that gives it such excitement.

I'm not so enamoured of the later fusionary Holdsworth like the formidably reviewed IOU but I did find a lovely acoustic collaboration from 1980 called Things You See which I highly recommend. It has that characteristic classical delicacy of fusion guitar you never find anyone playing with anymore.





9 comments:

  1. Julianryan23 December 2022 at 09:40

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/3ypuwz
    https://www21.zippyshare.com/v/frEXXoCi/file.html
    And Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to all!

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  2. I am Here23 December 2022 at 19:48

    Thanks for this,always open to different genres within a players catalog..

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  3. rev.b23 December 2022 at 21:42

    Wow, new to me too. Haven't heard Allan this early on, but he's obviously a brilliant player even then. Many thanks for this, PrgRvws in general and wishing you a Merry/Happy!

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  4. Sergej24 December 2022 at 01:13

    Happy Holidays. Thank you.

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  5. Autoridade24 December 2022 at 07:30

    Thank you for this jewel. However 2 tracks from cd1 and 5 tracks from cd2 are missing.

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  6. heeren25 December 2022 at 07:44

    If people here were Colosseum fans they would have known Tempest since it was the rhythm section from that great prog band Mark Clarke on bass and Jon Hiseman on drums that formed the foundation. And also wrote most of the material with Holdsworth. Hiseman also producing the album.

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    1. Julianryan25 December 2022 at 07:55

      I'm a Colosseum fan but didn't know that--thanks for the info

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  7. October Country25 December 2022 at 17:25

    A nice holiday treat!
    ...some of the tracks brought to mind Marvel World Of Icarus too
    Paperback Writer sounds great cranked loud on the big stereo :)
    Thank You so much Julian!
    Prog Reviews keeping good music alive!!
    Wishing you and yours a very merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :)

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  8. LYSERGICFUNK29 December 2022 at 02:15

    Hi Julian, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year
    PS: I'm looking for this, can you help me?
    - "Nathen Page – Page 1" / "Nathen Page – Page 2" and "Nathen Page – Plays Pretty For The People"
    Thanks in advance

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