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| Hopper Tunity Box |
| Hugh Hopper |
| első megjelenés éve: 2007 |
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| (2007)
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| 4.600 Ft
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| 1. | Hopper Tunity Box
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| 2. | Miniluv
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| 3. | Gnat Prong
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| 4. | The Lonely Sea and the Sky
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| 5. | Crumble
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| 6. | Lonely Woman
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| 7. | Mobile Mobile
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| 8. | Spanish Knee
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| 9. | Oyster Perpetual
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Jazz / Avant-Garde, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Experimental, Jazz-Rock, Avant-Garde Jazz
Hugh Hopper - Bass, Cover Design, Guitar, Original Sleeve Design, Percussion, Producer, Recorder, Sax (Soprano)
Elton Dean - Sax (Alto), Saxophone
Frank Roberts - Piano (Electric)
Gary Windo - Clarinet (Bass), Saxophone
Marc Charig - Cornet
Mark Charig - Cornet, Horn (Tenor)
Mike Travis - Drums
Nigel Morris - Drums
Richard Brunton - Guitar
* Andrew Rose - Mastering
* Bill Ellsworth - Design, Graphic Design
* Mike Dunne - Engineer, Producer
* Steven Feigenbaum - Reissue Coordination
Freshly remastered from the master tapes and issued on CD from the master tapes for the first time, this was the second solo album by Soft Machine bassist and composer Hugh Hopper. This was Hugh's second solo album and his first solo album after leaving Soft Machine. In my fan-boy opinion, it is one of the best records Hugh's ever made and is a fine and distinctively unusual progressive/fusion album that has all the compositional and performance twists and oddities that make it distinctly Hugh's. Originally released in 1977 on the Compendium label, it highlights Hugh's quirky compositional sense and trademarked fuzzbass/looping/lead bass stylings with stunningly great contributions from Richard Brunton-guitar, Elton Dean-alto sax and saxello, Mark Charig-cornet, Nigel Morris-drums, Frank Roberts-electric piano, Dave Stewart-organ, pianet, oscillators, Mike Travis-drums and Gary Windo-bass clarinet and saxes. There were no outtakes or additions to add to this reissue, but Hugh did contribute new notes that tell the story of the making of this album and he gave us reproductions of some of the musical scores for the booklet. An absolutely essential album that I've been pestering Hugh to allow us to release for well over a decade! This is a lost jazz/rock classic that demands to be rediscovered 30 years later! The original lp had a skip in the middle of one of Elton's wonderful solos and the only previous CD version was recorded off of a vinyl record and had the same skip! This is the first time this album has been released on CD with the care that it deserves. Don't miss it!
"An old Soft Machinist never lets you down. Somehow he's brought with him much of the flavour of his old band.... [Hopper Tunity Box] belongs up there with Third and Fourth...." - Melody Maker
Ex-Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper augments his rather infamous fuzz-bass attack by performing on guitar, recorders, soprano sax, and percussion on this reissue of the original LP. Recorded in 1976 and re-released on CD by Culture Press in 1996 and Cuneiform in 2007, this outing features the bassist's fellow Soft Machine bandmate, saxophonist Elton Dean, along with others of note. Moreover, Hopper veers into jazz fusion territory amid his often memorably melodic compositions, also including an investigative spin on modern jazz great Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman." Hopper and associates mince heavy-handed rhythms with subtle EFX treatments, a jazz waltz motif, dreamy choruses, and commanding jazz-based horn charts. Here Dean, keyboardist Dave Stewart, and saxophonist Gary Windo add a bit of luster to the session, thanks to emotionally charged soloing and wistful lines. The Culture Press CD audio characteristics tend to be a bit muddy (a minor flaw), but this shortcoming was remedied by the Cuneiform remastered version of the landmark Hopper Tunity Box in 2007. This production stands as one of Hopper's finest solo efforts -- largely due to the inspiring ensemble work and the bassist's strong material. Recommended.
--- Glenn Astarita, 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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