Allan' bringing us in a spacetime continuum where there is just the perfection without the evil. He's not playing music, he IS the music. He is absolute.
Maybe my favorite Holdsworth song. To have Tony playing drums on this was pure love and respect through music. Who on Earth would have ever thought to create such an enigmatic theme for a song? Nobody does that like that. Holdsworth's solo playing here is so passionate, sincere and cutting. Makes me want to break something to think how he left this world, but the virtue in his music turns that anger into hope and love.
For me this songs remind me a deep emotion..who saw the Edge of universe, and all the cold and hot places. This solo expression is more powerful than a supermassive black hole itself! Holdsworth music is still advance form of expression ever by a human being!!
Never got to meet him back in the day. One lifetime aint simply enough to to understand Allan’s playing. Thank you Allan for all youve done. You will definitely be missed. Hope youre in a better place. God bless.
From Luanshya zambia. . Allan holdsworth sits emotionally in a lot of hearts.why.? He was such a lovable human being. The humblest of them all. .for a.man who is easily the best guitarist of all Times
Been a devoted fan of Allan since Believe It in the 70's. IMHO Allan is one of the greatest artists that ever lived. And check this out - Allan is so humble and his humility is a heart quality of his from which exquisite elegance, beauty and transcendence arises. You want to be really really great? Then be humble, be quiet, go beyond ego deep into the one heart of all that is. That's where the most beautiful beauty is. I hadn't heard this cut before and I'm listening to the drumming thinking, wow great, whoever it is is like channeling Tony! Then I found out it is Tony! Tony's playing is so musical that it makes everyone he plays wityh sound better. Nobody could play like Tony. Guys like Tony and Allan, fuck meditation - just listen to them all the time and you'll achieve enlightenment! That's how powerful truly great music is!
because of there meditative skill they are able to make this music happen...but is a medium as an artist the same as the mediation guru's of tibeth? You tell me...maybe Alan came from outer Space to teach us an important Lesson...Jazz evolved by him but maybe 50 years later people will start to understand what realy happened...
His timing, his phrasing, his command of the scale, his compositional genius... words fail, indeed. Had the pleasure of meeting him twice and buying him and the band dinner once. Humble guy and just a great dude. I miss that gnarly geezer.
I've been listening to this guy for about a week now and I think he's phenomenal. I love how none of notes match, but he places them in a certain order that make them truly special.
Same here. The song is called, "Mystic Invasion" It was my favorite song in Secret of Mana. I could listen to it all day and never tire of it. It makes me appreciate the artist who inspired Squares Soft to create Mystic Invasion, even more.
Where was this made apparent? From what I understand, Hiroki Kikuta is only speculated to have been inspired by this tune (e.g. on Reddit). Whether or not he ever heard Holdsworth at all isn't something that's been established.
YES INDEED THIS IS TONY WILLIAMS...I LOVE THIS SONG AND HOW HE INTERPRETS IT--BEAUTIFUL WITH SO MUCH FEEL...rip alan...and thank you so much for getting us in free to your concert(as the second show was sold out) at the punch and judy theater outside of detroit summer of 1978...as i watched you an eddie jobson playing basketball in the back of the theater...watching people walk by you and not even knowing whom you were...lol...i still have your autographed album of uk and the billboard we won at peaches records...yes thank you allan...i had a chance to shake your hand--meet you-talk to you...and feel your vibe...and love....so great so humble...tony new what he liked for sure...RIP DETROIT ALWAYS!
Holdsworth es quizás el guitarrista más innovador del siglo XX. Profundo. Abrió nuevos caminos en la guitarra eléctrica. Mostró al mundo su propio universo sonoro. Evolucionó hacia una nueva concepción en la ejecución de este bello instrumento. Su partida nos dejó perplejos, pero su obra perdurará por siempre.
Really holding it down here, with two Maestros going for broke, it's no easy feat, and it's so important because this is a really lovely composition, so you need someone to keep the song locked in, and to do that with harmonics and flow in the bass position.
Allan Holdsworth is known to have learned about scales through a personal application of mathematics. He sought all the possible permutations of tone interval sequences (not just different orders of a given set of notes, that is, a given set of spaces between notes. Only working within the 12-note (even-tempered) system of intervals...
Not really. Almost sloppy and fills that don't fit the music. Interpretation is suspect in my many many years of playing. A big part of Williams was his tom tuning - one step apart - think 'Mary had a Little Lamb' which is highly unusual and alot of snare fills in this tune. Any reasonably good drummer could have been at least as good on this tune - it's one of Holdsworth's easiest to play.
I heard this song for the first time in years the other day and decided to take a stab at learning it - the transcription is on the web. Obviously, it is "going to take a while" in the immortal words of David Tennant (Weeping Angels episode.) Fortunately, my fingers are just long enough to do the close intervals required. The cool thing that I discovered right away was he is playing a lot of common chords, but using unusual voicings - i.e. play the chord D/C in the open position, but only strike the notes C, D and F#. Take that shape and begin to move it around the fretboard as if you are playing a scale and some pretty cool stuff happens. Eric Johnson also does this in a lot of his songs as well. Alan figured this stuff out about 40 years ago! I hate to say it, but the solo is way beyond my technical ability and I will leave it alone. I've seen him live a bunch of times and each time I want to burn my guitars. I agree with the comment below about what happens at 3:24 - that made the hair stand up on the back of my neck the first time. Bravo!
If Allan Holdsworth doesn't "Free Your Mind" nothing will. All notes are possible in Allans world. I've seen people try to copy his style and although they are all good guitar players none of them are like Allan. It's hard to copy a Genius.
I hear so much of the English Canterbury Scene in what Allan did compositionally and along with the great Alan Gowen and Dave Stewart of National Health, he was the very best of that style. He took the dominant language of that time, freely transposed cadences made up of major chords over non-chord bass notes, and put his personal stamp on it often taking it to new places with his chromatic modal soloing derived from Coltrane. He was the only guitarist who truly mastered Coltrane's harmonic language and had he been a saxophonist he'd be seen as important a voice as fellow Trane devotee, Michael Brecker.
PS anyone seeking composition on this level should also check out the prog rock/jazz outfit National Health . And there are equally sophisticated composers working in modern jazz you might like: Wayne Shorter, Richie Beirach, Dave Leibman and Ralph Towner to name a few . So many come to Allan Holdsworth from a rock background that it's sometimes hard to see how much of his sources lay in post 60's jazz.
@MrFusionGuitar 30 years ago i read somewhere that Tony Williams plays "pulse" instead of "time", i think his drumming on this tune illustrates that concept, i love this music!
he is a f-ing musical genius and it pisses me off that he often gets marginalized, --just because his music if so "out there". He is the Amadeus Mozart of the electric guitar.
mehoff jack Mozart is boring. Allen is Bach. Baroque. The golden age of music. Music was already more tame in the classical period. Mozart referred to Bach as master. Bach referred to beauty and reverence as master. Also Bach formulated music into a system for all that came later. We owe much more to him than his harmonic conception.
(12 notes to an octave, the thirteenth being a repeat of the first, but an octave higher [double frequency?]), he did this for four, five, six, all the way up to nine-note scales, and filed them all away. He then went back through them and eliminated all the ones that had more than four semitones (half-steps) in a row. He also stopped with 9-note scales. These may have the same root reason if you limit yourself to no more than four semitones in a row within an octave,
I'm on another one of my periodic quests to 'get' Holdsworth, and still failing... I have nothing but respect for the craft of the music and the desire to always push boundaries and the overall sensation is quite pleasing, but to me this is just a happy frog hopping from one musical lilly-pad to the next. I have to admit philistinism on this one I suppose.
@jamesedwardtheobald yup thats true but i think all the security guys wore red.. in fact i think it was running joke on trek that the redshirts always die first...all that aside though, this album cover is one of my favs; the badly rendered insert of the boy with turntable is one of the discs that the atavachron reads from.. so, holdsworth is in mid stride entering the machine gateway , with his synthaxe about to go back to his own childhood. As you can see i just totally DIG this album.
@shadowknight132 Whole album is based on three (i think) episodes of star trek, original series,all to do with aberrations of time. Also, Holdsworth dressed as a redshirt must mean something interesting, but i dont know what.
Allans playing is beautiful in most solos but when he improvises I think he detaches himself from the strict tempo I think he always plays with the key in mind but like for instance in much classical orchestral music the passages take many harmonic and melodic turns sometimes I hear the drums conflicting always genius but his most accessible work is when his phrasing corresponds closely with the drummer Andrew (bob ) yates
Tony Williams, one of the most inspired and inspirational drummers of all times.
How Allan Holdsworth came up with such a piece is beyond comprehension. So many years of studying music but this man still keeps us amazed.
R.I.P Allan Holdsworth, all guitarist shed a tear for you today, thank you for blessing us with this gem. You will be missed
Genius player. Harmonic master,so many colors...beautiful.
yes man....many, many colors.
Allan' bringing us in a spacetime continuum where there is just the perfection without the evil. He's not playing music, he IS the music.
He is absolute.
This song is so wild and sweet at the same time. It's overwhelming how good it is.
It truly is. It continues to pay after years of listening.
This sounds so close to Mystic Invasion... It's weird. Was Hiroki Kikuta listening to this when he was composing for Secret of Mana?
one of the all-time greats from one of the all-time greats. Still brilliant.
Hearing this song usually brings tears to my eyes. There is so much feeling in this music to me. Thank you Mr. Holdsworth.
Same here. Breaks your heart wide open.
i hear and feel more sensation/emotion from holdsworth's music, than any other artist. pure beauty
Yes. Talk about a guitar weeping, and it's such a poignant melody. It has to be my all time favorite Holdsworth song.
Somehow i do feel how you feel.strange
MY MUSIC MENTOR! THE BEST FRIEND I NEVER KNEW, THANK YOU FOR THE ENLIGHTENMENT. YOU ARE FOREVER!
Maybe my favorite Holdsworth song. To have Tony playing drums on this was pure love and respect through music. Who on Earth would have ever thought to create such an enigmatic theme for a song? Nobody does that like that. Holdsworth's solo playing here is so passionate, sincere and cutting. Makes me want to break something to think how he left this world, but the virtue in his music turns that anger into hope and love.
Lovely comments - thank you.
For me this songs remind me a deep emotion..who saw the Edge of universe, and all the cold and hot places. This solo expression is more powerful than a supermassive black hole itself! Holdsworth music is still advance form of expression ever by a human being!!
Tony!!! Impecable, Maestro de maestros!
Never got to meet him back in the day. One lifetime aint simply enough to to understand Allan’s playing. Thank you Allan for all youve done. You will definitely be missed. Hope youre in a better place. God bless.
Some of the most brilliant music ever recorded!!!
From Luanshya zambia. . Allan holdsworth sits emotionally in a lot of hearts.why.? He was such a lovable human being. The humblest of them all. .for a.man who is easily the best guitarist of all Times
This almost always makes me cry - Cheers forever Mr Holdsworth the Great
May you enchant the heavens
where's the "love" button, this is totally inspirational!
Not only is this my favorite Holdsworth track it is also accompanied by my favorite drummer!
Ditto
Been a devoted fan of Allan since Believe It in the 70's. IMHO Allan is one of the greatest artists that ever lived. And check this out - Allan is so humble and his humility is a heart quality of his from which exquisite elegance, beauty and transcendence arises. You want to be really really great? Then be humble, be quiet, go beyond ego deep into the one heart of all that is. That's where the most beautiful beauty is. I hadn't heard this cut before and I'm listening to the drumming thinking, wow great, whoever it is is like channeling Tony! Then I found out it is Tony! Tony's playing is so musical that it makes everyone he plays wityh sound better. Nobody could play like Tony. Guys like Tony and Allan, fuck meditation - just listen to them all the time and you'll achieve enlightenment! That's how powerful truly great music is!
because of there meditative skill they are able to make this music happen...but is a medium as an artist the same as the mediation guru's of tibeth? You tell me...maybe Alan came from outer Space to teach us an important Lesson...Jazz evolved by him but maybe 50 years later people will start to understand what realy happened...
Spinetta...
This is my favorite guitar solo. There is nothing like this composition, either. But the story this solo tells. Words fail.
Mine too. Hard to pick a favorite Allan solo, but this one always stops me in my tracks.
Yes, words fail, indeed.
So many great solos. My favourites are Looking Glass & Tokyo Dream.
His timing, his phrasing, his command of the scale, his compositional genius... words fail, indeed. Had the pleasure of meeting him twice and buying him and the band dinner once. Humble guy and just a great dude. I miss that gnarly geezer.
I've been listening to this guy for about a week now and I think he's phenomenal. I love how none of notes match, but he places them in a certain order that make them truly special.
How could a music genre be so technical ? That's awesome.
Thank you Allan Holdsworth for the great music ...
By 3:37 I was literally crying. This song like many of Allan's really touches me every time I hear it.
Yeah. The solo is an absolute masterpiece. Though the word is inadequate.
The whole work is truly transcendent.
Listening to this feels like missing an old friend.
A true master gone. RIP Allan (April 16, 2017) thank you for the amazing music.
Just for clarity, Allan passed on April 15. The announcement was made on April 16.
Listen to Allan is to see the future.
+jean-claude sarkissian Through looking glass ^^
+John Wayne Exactly !
This is the first time I’ve heard of this guy! Apparently, the composers of “Secret of Mana” SNES were inspired by this track for their palace theme!
Same here. The song is called, "Mystic Invasion" It was my favorite song in Secret of Mana. I could listen to it all day and never tire of it. It makes me appreciate the artist who inspired Squares Soft to create Mystic Invasion, even more.
Where was this made apparent? From what I understand, Hiroki Kikuta is only speculated to have been inspired by this tune (e.g. on Reddit). Whether or not he ever heard Holdsworth at all isn't something that's been established.
YES INDEED THIS IS TONY WILLIAMS...I LOVE THIS SONG AND HOW HE INTERPRETS IT--BEAUTIFUL WITH SO MUCH FEEL...rip alan...and thank you so much for getting us in free to your concert(as the second show was sold out) at the punch and judy theater outside of detroit summer of 1978...as i watched you an eddie jobson playing basketball in the back of the theater...watching people walk by you and not even knowing whom you were...lol...i still have your autographed album of uk and the billboard we won at peaches records...yes thank you allan...i had a chance to shake your hand--meet you-talk to you...and feel your vibe...and love....so great so humble...tony new what he liked for sure...RIP DETROIT ALWAYS!
This music is fantastic.
Holdsworth es quizás el guitarrista más innovador del siglo XX. Profundo. Abrió nuevos caminos en la guitarra eléctrica. Mostró al mundo su propio universo sonoro. Evolucionó hacia una nueva concepción en la ejecución de este bello instrumento. Su partida nos dejó perplejos, pero su obra perdurará por siempre.
The unmistakable interpretation of Tony Williams. Really interesting to study. And his drum tunings/muffling are also a trademark.
So much feel
Goddamn, i swear on my head that there's no other guitarists that gives me brain shivers/body tingling when listening to their solos
Awesome bass playing as well by Jimmy Johnson!!!
Really holding it down here, with two Maestros going for broke, it's no easy feat, and it's so important because this is a really lovely composition, so you need someone to keep the song locked in, and to do that with harmonics and flow in the bass position.
Tony Williams, everyone!
If only there could’ve been more of Holdsworth/Williams c
Allan Holdsworth is known to have learned about scales through a personal application of mathematics. He sought all the possible permutations of tone interval sequences (not just different orders of a given set of notes, that is, a given set of spaces between notes. Only working within the 12-note (even-tempered) system of intervals...
Love this
Tony Williams!
I really think this might be the best drum track ever recorded - ever. It hurts my brain how far ahead of the song Tony is.
Pure soul
Not really. Almost sloppy and fills that don't fit the music. Interpretation is suspect in my many many years of playing. A big part of Williams was his tom tuning - one step apart - think 'Mary had a Little Lamb' which is highly unusual and alot of snare fills in this tune. Any reasonably good drummer could have been at least as good on this tune - it's one of Holdsworth's easiest to play.
Enki & Enlil come on man just shhhhhhhh
@@vintagemxer9165 You just don't understand Tony. Every note is exactly what he wanted it to be. Listen to Neil Peart if you want quantized drumming.
@@vintagemxer9165 if you want to be a contrarian, don't. Unless you want to look like an idiot like bringing nuggets of shite like that one.
Buy the album .. support the artist
Tensa e extrema. A melhor desse play
I heard this song for the first time in years the other day and decided to take a stab at learning it - the transcription is on the web. Obviously, it is "going to take a while" in the immortal words of David Tennant (Weeping Angels episode.) Fortunately, my fingers are just long enough to do the close intervals required. The cool thing that I discovered right away was he is playing a lot of common chords, but using unusual voicings - i.e. play the chord D/C in the open position, but only strike the notes C, D and F#. Take that shape and begin to move it around the fretboard as if you are playing a scale and some pretty cool stuff happens. Eric Johnson also does this in a lot of his songs as well. Alan figured this stuff out about 40 years ago! I hate to say it, but the solo is way beyond my technical ability and I will leave it alone. I've seen him live a bunch of times and each time I want to burn my guitars. I agree with the comment below about what happens at 3:24 - that made the hair stand up on the back of my neck the first time. Bravo!
Nice song
If Allan Holdsworth doesn't "Free Your Mind" nothing will. All notes are possible in Allans world. I've seen people try to copy his style and although they are all good guitar players none of them are like Allan. It's hard to copy a Genius.
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see” -Schopenhauer
Tony’s flams are another kind of music .
I hear so much of the English Canterbury Scene in what Allan did compositionally and along with the great Alan Gowen and Dave Stewart of National Health, he was the very best of that style. He took the dominant language of that time, freely transposed cadences made up of major chords over non-chord bass notes, and put his personal stamp on it often taking it to new places with his chromatic modal soloing derived from Coltrane. He was the only guitarist who truly mastered Coltrane's harmonic language and had he been a saxophonist he'd be seen as important a voice as fellow Trane devotee, Michael Brecker.
PS anyone seeking composition on this level should also check out the prog rock/jazz outfit National Health . And there are equally sophisticated composers working in modern jazz you might like: Wayne Shorter, Richie Beirach, Dave Leibman and Ralph Towner to name a few . So many come to Allan Holdsworth from a rock background that it's sometimes hard to see how much of his sources lay in post 60's jazz.
saw it live, terrifying! !!!!!!
terrifying or terrific? :D quite the difference
@MrFusionGuitar 30 years ago i read somewhere that Tony Williams plays "pulse" instead of "time", i think his drumming on this tune illustrates that concept, i love this music!
not another legend gone!!!
Gwen Sciora I know :'( made me sad when I saw that. Found out while me and my friend were jamming. Was looking up a tab and I saw it on the headlines.
2:48 whoa! the intro riff to "Buttersnips" by Periphery is in there!
Misha Mansoor mentions him as one of his favorite guitarists (along with Petrucci and GGovan). Good catch!
este es mi genio favorito...¡¡¡¡
he is a f-ing musical genius and it pisses me off that he often gets marginalized, --just because his music if so "out there". He is the Amadeus Mozart of the electric guitar.
The ability among people to appreciate genius is extremely marginal, you belong to one of the few!
mehoff jack Mozart is boring. Allen is Bach. Baroque. The golden age of music. Music was already more tame in the classical period. Mozart referred to Bach as master. Bach referred to beauty and reverence as master. Also Bach formulated music into a system for all that came later. We owe much more to him than his harmonic conception.
@@aussiechiro Allan is Bach, Eddie is Mozart and Dimebag is Beethoven!
@@pleximanic 9
Gary Husband - drums (except tracks 3, 5, 7)
Chad Wackerman - drums (tracks 3, 7)
Tony Williams - drums (track 5)
(12 notes to an octave, the thirteenth being a repeat of the first, but an octave higher [double frequency?]), he did this for four, five, six, all the way up to nine-note scales, and filed them all away. He then went back through them and eliminated all the ones that had more than four semitones (half-steps) in a row. He also stopped with 9-note scales. These may have the same root reason if you limit yourself to no more than four semitones in a row within an octave,
You know there's a Star Trek episode called Through The Looking Glass. They should have used this song.
And you know that Atavachron was named after a Star Trek episode.
I'm on another one of my periodic quests to 'get' Holdsworth, and still failing... I have nothing but respect for the craft of the music and the desire to always push boundaries and the overall sensation is quite pleasing, but to me this is just a happy frog hopping from one musical lilly-pad to the next. I have to admit philistinism on this one I suppose.
Pretty cool he named this song Mystic Invasion in Secret of Mana.
3:24 is the moment I empty out my wallet.
thx
@jamesedwardtheobald yup thats true but i think all the security guys wore red.. in fact i think it was running joke on trek that the redshirts always die first...all that aside though, this album cover is one of my favs; the badly rendered insert of the boy with turntable is one of the discs that the atavachron reads from.. so, holdsworth is in mid stride entering the machine gateway , with his synthaxe about to go back to his own childhood. As you can see i just totally DIG this album.
Tony Williams on drums! RIP
@MrFusionGuitar Actually, Chad Wackerman played on "All Our Yesterdays" and "The Dominant Plague"
Secret of Mana!! :o
nice solo
@shadowknight132 Whole album is based on three (i think) episodes of star trek, original series,all to do with aberrations of time. Also, Holdsworth dressed as a redshirt must mean something interesting, but i dont know what.
hey upload the dominant plague please!!!
11 dislikes...forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing
Allans playing is beautiful in most solos but when he improvises I think he detaches himself from the strict tempo I think he always plays with the key in mind but like for instance in much classical orchestral music the passages take many harmonic and melodic turns sometimes I hear the drums conflicting always genius but his most accessible work is when his phrasing corresponds closely with the drummer Andrew (bob ) yates
@dwilmer7 Nevermind, this stuff of genius can only be appreciated by a select few.
Anyone have or know of the bass parts notated for this fine track ?
0:07
drumless track to this???
g-d
I like it but it needs more screaming