Allan Holdsworth
Secrets
The Story
Matt Resnicoff writes in the liner notes about Allan Holdsworth's CD "Secrets", "This is not a guitar synthesizer album, nor is it a guitar album. It would be perfectly accurate to describe it as nothing like you've ever heard before, and Allan as a guitar player like none you've heard before, but the statement's shortsightedness does a disservice to Allan's vision. Allan Holdsworth consistently creates music like no other: devil takes hindmost, means be damned. And it's not in the arrangement of notes he plays, the speed at which he plays them or the tools he uses; the beauty is held in the passionate way he makes them gleam together from a deep-seated feeling to a tangible mass of sound - and back to a feeling once again. This is like nothing you've heard before. Close your eyes, open your ears, and capture a glimpse of Allan Holdsworth's secret."
The Music
02:33 | City Nights | Instrumental |
04:22 | Secrets | Vocal |
04:34 | 54 Duncan Terrace | Instrumental |
05:59 | Joshua | Instrumental |
03:32 | Spokes | Instrumental |
07:16 | Maid Marion | Instrumental |
04:45 | Peril Premonition | Instrumental |
04:19 | Endomorph | Instrumental |
The Artists
Allan Holdsworth | Guitar, Synthaxe, Production, Mixing |
Jimmy Johnson | Bass |
Vinnie Colaiuta | Drums |
Rowanne Mark | Vocals on "Secrets" |
Alan Pasqua | Acoustic Piano |
Steve Hunt | Keyboards |
Bob Wackerman | Bass |
Chad Wackerman | Drums, Keyboards |
Clair Holdsworth | Voice |
Jeffrey Ocheltree | Hammer |
Craig Copeland | Additional Instrument |
Gary Husband | Additional Instrument |
Robert Feist | Mixing |
Biff Vincent | Additional Engineering |
Charlie Watts | Additional Engineering |
Dan Humann | Additional Engineering |
Ed Colver | Photography |
Lisa Sutton | Design |
Bernie Grundman | Original Mastering |
Matt Resnicoff | Liner Notes |
Recorded at Front Page Recorders.
Additional recording at Music Grinder and The Brewery. Mixed at The Brewery. |