Alternity Records
2004
Electric Guitar [Baritone] – Allan Holdsworth (tracks: 4)
Electric Guitar [Piccolo] – Allan Holdsworth (tracks: 11, 12)
Electric Guitar [Solo, Chords] – Allan Holdsworth (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 7 to 9, 11, 12)
Rap – 4Zone* (tracks: 2, 5)
Electronic Drums, Loops, Sounds [Samples], Effects – Amon Freon
Piano, Synthesizer, Chapman Stick, Bass – Chris Hoard
Synthesizer [Cameos], Sounds [Psychotic Pteradactyls] – Mark Gleed (tracks: 9)
Voice [Poem] – Ekow Asare (tracks: 1, 6, 7)
Words By – Chris Hoard (tracks: 2), M. Haney (tracks: 2)
Effects [Vocoded Ocean] – Alan Porzio (tracks: 1)
Tracklist
1 Prelude: Undertow 2:38
2 Time To Move On 4:38
3 Still Movin’ 0:41
4 Time Off In Tannu Tuva 6:30
5 Free Da Radicals 4:03
6 Pearls Of Intuition 5:00
7 Chasing Tsunamis 7:21
8 Long Voyage Home 6:12
9 Jurassic City 5:44
10 C’mon Ovaya 4:44
11 Forgotten Planet Suite, Pt. I 5:04
12 Forgotten Planet Suite, Pt. II 4:14
13 Coda: Undertow 1:46
This release takes you on a whimsical and curious musical journey, which finds Allan Holdsworth unleashing both in a neo-classical suite on piccolo guitar–blowing like Coltrane over tuvan throat singers… Hoard laying down lush textures with keyboards and Chapman stick… Holdsworth wails over a bluesy, infectuous electronic shuffle which morphs into some UK-esque changes and a ferocious solo–all framed by an underground LA rapper, DJ 4Zone… what comes out of the mix may offend your purist prog sensibilities… and lose you in low-tech home-studio jamz… but like the best modern music it challenges boundaries and only a few tracks fail to transport you to neverland. Several tracks feature some of Holdworth’s most impressive playing ever–over compositions crafted to highlight his genius… (Review by Amon Freon)