Released inward 1997 on Purple Pyramid Records. Catalog Number: CLP 9970-2 This recording was taken from the "Tokyo Dream" video concert. Recorded alive at Yubinchokin Hall-Tokyo, Nippon 5/14/84.
This is the alone alive IOU. Recorded inward Nippon inward 1984. Magic. My re-create was released thru Purple Pyramid records 1997. Highly recommended. All of the Allan Holdsworth recordings are worthy. There are bootlegs out at that topographic point which stimulate got dropouts too who's audio character is real uneven but this is non ane of those past times whatsoever stretch of your musical imagination.
This album, recorded for a Japanese goggle box show, too released against Allan's wishes, is withal inward my opinion, his almost accessible travel ever. Gone are the keyboards on this date, too so every banker's complaint that's non vocal, drum or bass, is Holdsworth himself. When y'all realize this, your jaw volition driblet open.
Allmusic review of Holdsworth's I.O.U. studio album:
After the train-wreck disaster of Holdsworth's offset solo release, the infamous Velvet Darkness, it wasn't until 3 years afterward that he reconsidered doing a existent solo unloosen versus the before ripoff of an authorized studio mishmash production he suffered. So inward 1979 he recorded I.O.U. on a fly too a prayer too loans (ergo, an IOU recording project). With his real successful stints amongst other groups inward the intervening fourth dimension period, such equally United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland too Bill Bruford, Holdsworth's guitar prowess too refer were clearly on the map. Holdsworth forthwith needed to survive the leader he clearly was too thus unloosen an official solo record. The existent Allan Holdsworth unleashed is at final revealed on I.O.U. inward his master compositions too well-crafted soloing, versus existence but business office of a grouping too forced to remain inside certainly boundaries of other bandmates' design. I.O.U., equally a solo release, is high-quality jazz fusion interplay, offering emotive compositions, ethereal guitar atmospherics, complex chordal progressions, too intense legato explosions of guitar that laid upward the criterion for many guitarists to come. There is no acoustic guitar this time, but a wee fleck of Holdsworth on violin appears inward ane song.
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R.I.P. Allan Holdsworth
Track listing:
All tracks written past times Allan Holdsworth, except where noted.
1. "Road Games" 4:25
2. "White Line" (Holdsworth, Gerry Brown) 7:02
3. "Panic Station" (lyrics past times Paul Williams) 4:14
4. "Letters of Marque" 6:41
5. "Material Real" 7:30
6. "Metal Fatigue" (lyrics past times Williams) 5:10
7. "Where Is One?" 8:02
8. "The Things You See" 7:01
9. "Was There (Something)" 6:58
Total length: 57:03
Personnel:
Allan Holdsworth – guitar
Jimmy Johnson – bass
Republic of Chad Wackerman – drums
Paul Williams – vocals
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