Hugh Hopper
Former Soft Machine/Isotope luminary, Hugh Hopper, is a highly regarded 'fuzz' bass and loop innovator whose music continues to expand and change.
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hugh hopper - jazzloops (cdr)
Ex-Soft Machine 'fuzz-bass' innovator Hugh Hopper has gifted Burning Shed one of the albums of his long and distinguished career. A computer manipulated collage of live and studio performances, 'Jazzloops' possesses the fizz and energy of classic Soft Machine along with an astute awareness the possibilities of contemporary technology that occasionally brings to mind the jazzier extremes of post-Trip-Hoppers DJ Shadow and Koop.
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The more I listen to Jazzloops, the more I like it - and I liked it quite a bit to start with.
Simon Knights
please advise when available
jpberessi
Absolutely killer jazz-ambient stuff.Perfect for rainy nights.
Luis Torregrosa
The guitarist on 1212 is French wizard Patrice Meyer HH
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who's the guitar player on 1212?
mmartin
wonderful !!!
Michael Peters
Hugh Hopper's best known as a member of the 'classic' lineup of Soft Machine, whose early 70s albums displayed a sometimes whimsical, very English mix of jazz, psychedelia and rock. Hopper's approach to the bass guitar lay somewhere between John Entwistle and Charlie Mingus, capable of sweetly melodic lines or vicious bursts of thick fuzz; it's still one of the most recognisable sounds in English music. Since the heady days of prog, Hopper's been involved with a bewildering range of projects, from Soft Machine spin offs featuring various Canterbury scene alumni to his own seminal tapeloop driven 1984, to more recent hookups with Kramer, American singer Lisa Klossner and art rockers Caveman Shoestore. Hopper's said that his primary concern has always been with texture and sure enough, Jazzloops drips with atmosphere. It appears to be an assemblage gathered from rehearsal tapes and studio jams, reconstructed and added to by Hopper's bass, guitar and samples (I presume it's a Jimmy Garrison sample underpinning "Garrisoi"). The saxes of Elton Dean, Gong man Didier Malherbe and the underrated Simon Picard (often heard with Trevor Watts) pick their way in lyrical, post- Coltrane style through grainy loops of bass and drum grooves (old mucker John Marshall appears to be the propulsion unit behind the one legged swing of "L4", which comes on like a fragment of an old Henry Cow session). Though occasionally the bassist treats us to a taste of his fuzz pedal, for the most part it's the (mainly soprano) saxes that do the talking; Pierre-Oliver Govin whips out a particularly incandescent display on the closing "nigepo" and Didier Malherbe (I think) is responsible for the muezzin calls of the ethno-ambient "sfrankl". In a blindfold test, most of us might think this was some hot new post rock/post fusion outfit out of Chicago or Norway, paying homage to mid 70s Miles in lo-fi fashion. The truth is that Hopper's been a past master of this kind of thing for over 30 years and is still hard at it. More please... Reviewer: Peter Marsh
Peter Marsh (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/)
Jazzloops has been listed in the BBC Jazz on 3 CD Roundup here.
Burning Shed
Really interseting mixes here. And much along the kind of lines ive been thinking of late. Difficult to call jazz, but harder to call anything else. An expectedly good use of effects, and the loops are well constructed, contrasted with live recordings and crazy sax solos that glide over the underlying pulses. Nice.
Jim
FANTASTIC!!! i could not imagine...really FANTASTIC!
araneus