Release Date: 01 October 1996
Label: Ogun Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5020675570924
Genres: Jazz  Avant-garde  
Release Date: 01 October 1996
Label: Ogun Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5020675570924
Genres: Jazz  Avant-garde  
Description
Recorded live in a French club in May 1978, this important document captures the Soft Head line up on cracking form and in quality audio crispness. The band was formed in 1978 by ex-members of Soft Machine - Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Alan Gowen and Dave Sheen. "Soft" being an obvious reference to their past band, and "Head" being the 4 initial letters of the musicians' first names.
The original LP was released in 1978 (OG527) and the CD reissue (OGCD013) in 1996, including two extra tracks.
Hugh Hopper: bass guitar
Elton Dean: alto saxophone, saxello
Alan Gowen: electric piano, synthesiser
Dave Sheen: drums
Tracklisting
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath
Soft Head
Alan Skidmore, Mike Osborne & John Surman
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath
Elton Dean's Ninesense
Mark Charig, Keith Tippett & Ann Winter
Chris McGregor
Louis Moholo-Moholo
Judith Berkson; Trevor Dunn; Gerald Cleaver
Elina Duni; Rob Luft
Jess Green, Sandy Evans & Dylan van der Schyff
Sara Alden; August Bjorn; Daniel Andersson Runevad
Lovisa Jennervall; Emil Ingmar; Lisa Bodelius; Dorotea Dragodan; Lina Lovstrand
Julius Hemphill; Baikida Carroll; Abdul Wadud; Phillip Wilson; Hamiet Bluiett
Dexter Gordon; Horace Parlan; Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen; Tony Inzalaco
David Janeway; Robert Hurst; Billy Hart