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| 1. | Miniluv
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| 2. | Minipax 1
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| 3. | Minipax 2
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| 4. | Minitrue
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| 5. | Miniplenty
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| 6. | Minitrue (Reprise)
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| 7. | Miniluv (Reprise)
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Jazz / Avant-Garde, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Experimental, Jazz-Rock, Avant-Garde Jazz
Hugh Hopper - , Bass, Bells, Comb, Keyboards, Liner Notes, Loops, Mellophonium, Percussion, Piano, Producer, Sax (Soprano), Saxophone, Voices
Gary Windo - Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
John Marshall - Drums, Percussion
Lol Coxhill - Sax (Soprano), Saxophone
Malcolm Griffiths - Trombone
Nick Evans - Trombone
Pye Hastings - Guitar
Bassist/composer Hugh has been involved in many projects during his more than 30 years in music. 1984, originally released in 1973, & his first solo release, remains perhaps his most singular. This combines Hugh's unique fuzz bass & compostions with tapework, multiple overdubs, & a very avant esthetic & then contrasts those works with short, weirdly devolved James Brown-inspired pieces. 25 years later, the originality and distinctiveness of Hugh's vision on 1984 remains untouched. This is the DEFINITIVE CD edition, taken from the original master tapes, including a never heard bonus track from the original sessions, as well as new notes by Hugh that tell the story of 1984.
* Bill Ellsworth - Design, Graphic Design
* Gary Martin - Engineer
* Mike Dunne - Engineer
Originally released in 1973 by the Soft Machine bassist shortly after the band had lost eccentric drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt and had begun their evolution into a respectable (and somewhat predictable) jazz-rock ensemble, this was Hopper's attempt at something more experimental. As he reports in his amusing CD notes, the record label CBS was all in favor of his solo excursion until he let them know what he had in mind, at which point they declined to pay even for studio time, so Hopper had to take out a bank loan to make the recording -- which says a lot for Hopper's belief in his artistic vision, and not much at all for the musical (as opposed to financial) vision of CBS. Hopper's 1984 is inspired by George Orwell's totalitarian fantasy of the same name, and the two longest tracks, "Miniluv" and "Miniplenty," feature Hopper's multitracked solo work on bass, percussion, mellophone, loops and electronics, with only John Marshall, the Soft Machine drummer, contributing additional percussion on the second piece. This music had an appropriately eerie, ominous quality, with heavy use of chattering tape loops, reverberating bass drones and woozy, sometimes harsh slide work on bass guitar strings. Terry Riley's early cyclical trance music was a large influence on Hopper at the time of this recording, and there are also strong echoes of "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band," for example, in the intertwined, looped sax lines in "Minitrue." However, several of the shorter selections on this CD, with the addition of various saxophones, trombones and other horns, are inexplicably tied to a rather twisted and ponderous R&B groove. Hopper suggests, retrospectively, that these several pieces may have represented the "normal" citizens in Orwell's dystopia, who were nonetheless a little "bent" by their soul-destroying environment. However, it is just as likely that Hopper was simply indulging his admitted fondness for James Brown. 1984 was always a musical oddity, and it may be a little incoherent and self-indulgent at times, but it has held up well over time, and still contains music of great interest.
---William Tilland, All Music Guide
Hugh Hopper
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Avant-Garde, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Experimental, Jazz-Rock, Avant-Garde Jazz, Canterbury Scene, Avant-Prog
Bassist/composer Hugh Hopper has worked on a variety of projects in his 40 years in music. Hopper was born and raised in Canterbury, Kent, England. In 1963, he became involved in a jazz and poetry trio with Daevid Allen, who would go on to form Gong, and Robert Wyatt. In 1964, Hopper was a founder of the Wilde Flowers, a band that included Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings, Richard Coughlan, Robert Wyatt, and Kevin Ayers. Although a fairly typical beat group, the Wilde Flowers would split into two legendary bands: Caravan, with Sinclair, Hastings, and Coughlan; and Soft Machine, with Wyatt and Ayers, who was replaced by Hopper late in 1968. Hopper left Soft Machine in 1974 and worked on numerous projects before forming the Hugh Hopper Band in 1985. The group released a CD, Meccano Pelorus, on the Cuneiform label in 1991, and has since released other material on that label as well as on Voiceprint and PONK.
--- Jim Dorsch, All Music Guide |
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