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labyrinth
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:13 am
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labyrinth wrote:
Here's a review of Milella's album:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=14403
Here's another review from Milella's album, originally published in iO Pages:
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ALEX MILELLA
Light Shades
(NICOLOSI PRODUCTIONS NIC90021/WWW.JAZZOS.COM)
Molti musicisti sono piuttosto suscettibili quando si tratta di parlare delle loro presunte
influenze, timorosi di essere chiamati cloni o non originali. Il chitarrista italiano Alex
Milella invece non ha nessuno di questi problemi perché è lui stesso che nel suo primo
album da leader "Light Shades", con Allan's Worth e Signal for Scott, dedica due brani
rispettivamente ad Allan Hodsworth e Scott Henderson. In particolar modo è l'influenza
di quest'ultimo che lascia le sue tracce anche nella maggior parte delle altre
composizioni concretizzandosi in molti virtuosi ma melodici "guitar-solos", pieni di
passaggi sincopati tipici dei "Tribal Tech" dal periodo di "Nomad" a quello di "Illicit". Ma
ce ne vuole molto per chiamare Milella un clone. Le sue composizioni hanno sicuramente
un carattere personale che grazie alle esaltanti strutture, grazie all'apporto armonico di
Luca Cacucciolo al piano/synth e grazie al poderoso sostegno ritmico del basso e della
batteria, regalano un'ora di esaltante musica Jazz/Rock.
Due brani (il menzionato Signal for Scott e Oversteppin') sono adornati dall'accattivante
presenza di Michele Carrabba al sax che dà maggiori impulsi paragonabili a quelli degli
"Steps Ahead" e "Weather Report", specialmente nel dirompente tema di Oversteppin',
suonato in maniera poderosa sia dalla chitarra che dal sax allo stesso modo delle
collaborazioni tra Mike Stern e Bob Berg/Bob Malach.
Per momenti più pacati Milella lascia Roberta Carrieri cantare la fluttuante melodia della
prima parte di "Inside You", melodia che sarà poi da lui stesso esaltata al massimo nella
seconda parte che invece chiude l'album.
Un altro brano formato da due parti è "Before The.../...Light Shades", dove nella prima
parte crea un'introduzione acustica e riflessiva rivolta alla title-track "Light Shades". In
quest'ultimo brano Milella utilizza un timbro ed un tono diversi, che hanno più
similitudini con il suono di Shawn Lane. In questo stesso brano il bassista Pierluigi
Balducci e il batterista Giuseppe Berlen trovano spazio per un assolo ciascuno mentre il
culmine musicale è in parte plasmato da un presente loop di chitarra.
Una produzione chiara e cristallina rendono questo capolavoro completo.
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The Owl
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:18 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:18 pm
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FWIW, a tune I recorded in the early 90's was my unintentional Holdsy Tribute, called
"UPSTAIRS", found here http://theowlwatches.dmusic.com
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Tzad
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:23 pm
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The Owl wrote:
FWIW, a tune I recorded in the early 90's was my unintentional Holdsy Tribute, called
"UPSTAIRS"
Very entertaining. The solo is a great Phil Miller impression.
Can there be such a thing as an uninintentional tribute? Thanks for sharing.
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The Owl
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:02 am
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Tzad wrote:
The Owl wrote:
FWIW, a tune I recorded in the early 90's was my unintentional Holdsy
Tribute, called "UPSTAIRS"
Very entertaining. The solo is a great Phil Miller impression.
Can there be such a thing as an uninintentional tribute? Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome, and BTW, Phil Miller is another favorite axemeister of mine.
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labyrinth
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:24 am
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The Owl wrote:
FWIW, a tune I recorded in the early 90's was my unintentional Holdsy Tribute, called
"UPSTAIRS", found here http://theowlwatches.dmusic.com
Nice one! The intro was more in the Scott McGill/Bill Pohl-vein. Fine solo.
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labyrinth
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 6:34 am
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The Slovenian guitarist Vlado Turnsek called one of his tunes "Ghost In Holdsworth House".
You can listen to it on CDBaby.
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You can listen to it on CDBaby.
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The Owl
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:15 pm
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labyrinth wrote:
The Owl wrote:
FWIW, a tune I recorded in the early 90's was my unintentional Holdsy
Tribute, called "UPSTAIRS", found here http://theowlwatches.dmusic.com
Nice one! The intro was more in the Scott McGill/Bill Pohl-vein. Fine solo.
Thanks labrynth!! I'll take that as high praise.
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Aesthetician
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 4:20 am
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The John Stevens albums are guilty pleasures for me, because I think Allan's playing on
them is amazing. The only thing that spoils them for me (and it's a big thing) is Stevens'
drumming, which I never liked.
I saw Allan perform with Stevens on a number of occasions in the late 70s (e.g. at The
Plough, Stockwell), and Stevens always appeared to have a very inflated ego, in contrast to
Allan's modesty and shyness.
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:23 am
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(I tell a lie. I know you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, and all that, but the other
thing that bugs me is Stevens' attention-seeking grunting and moaning.)
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labyrinth
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:33 am
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I'm not sure about this one, but some things are pointing in the direction of a tribute. The
Swedish Mats/Morgan Band just released their 7th album, called Thanks For Flying With Us.
It's their first album that is published by a label outside Sweden and that honour goes to
Cuneiform Records.
In interviews the main musicians of the band, Mats Öberg (keyboard) and Morgan Ågren,
have often stated that Allan Holdsworth is one of their favourite artist. Recently Morgan told
that Bruford's One of A Kind is one of his top-albums of all time (together with Romantic
Warrior and Heavy Metal Bebop). Well, anyway, one of the tracks on this new CD is called
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Warrior and Heavy Metal Bebop). Well, anyway, one of the tracks on this new CD is called
Allan In The Rain. Although it's not containing fluent guitar-solo's (the lead instrument is a
zurna - a Turkish reed instrument) it's possible that it is a tribute, especially because the
band often uses chords and chord-changes which are familiar with Allan's. Interesting album
by the way. A kind of a modern mixture between the European progressive jazz-rock from
the seventies (Bruford, National Health), Zappa's Jazz From Hell (synclavier-like sounds), a
jazz-rock incarnation of Gentle Giant and rhythm-based electronic music.
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Great Googly Moogly
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:45 am
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The title track has Mats playing what sounds pretty much exactly like Allan on the SynthAxe,
too...
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