Learn Steve Topping - 2004 Belatedly Flower

"Late Flower" is the highly anticipated album from Steve Topping, i the initiative of all guitarists of our fourth dimension together with a seminal influence on a whole generation of rock, jazz together with classical musicians. This album of novel industrial plant features performances past times several of his long-time collaborators including bassist Jimmy Johnson together with drummer Gary Husband. English linguistic communication guitarist Topping grew upwardly inwards Liverpool during the sixties. Born into a musical trouble solid he was playing guitar from the historic menstruum of seven. He was already pushing against technical horizons when he started music college. Later on, composing became every bit of import to him... but the tough part was all the same to come: finding himself together with non beingness a follower. That early on hope is right away beingness fulfilled... inwards a belatedly flowering.

Steve Topping has latterly completed 2 years of recording his latest musical masterpiece, Late Flower. Steve is inwards the rare league of guitar innovators such as Allan Holdsworth together with John McLaughlin. His tasteful together with highly original approach to the guitar is indeed refreshing.

" ... this is an exciting together with challenging fourth dimension ... I but can't await to play this materials live! Heartfelt thank y'all to everyone that has taken an involvement together with sent messages of support. It's been a rattling long together with winding path to Late Flower ... I never desire this kind of delay inwards output again! Hope to run across y'all out at that spot ... " Steve Topping, May 2004.

"I honey this tape ... it's genuinely a breath of fresh air ... particularly inwards these times of a gazillion music schools, magazines together with videos that tend to churn out musicians playing everything you've always heard earlier ... again! Steve has a unique harmonic approach that is deep, emotional together with exciting". Allan Holdsworth

Track listing:

1. Woody Chimer 04:48
2. The Lost Song 05:51
3. Aigburth 10:35
4. Game Of Light 04:04
5. Strolling Boy 08:37
6. Jo 02:37
7. On My Hill...Late Flower 06:44

Personnel:

Steve Topping - Guitars (Real & Virtual), All Keyboards, Percussion on 2, 7, Mixing, Production, Engineering, Editing
Jimmy Johnson - Fretted together with Fretless Bass
Gary Husband - Drums, Synth Solo on 4
Frank Schaefer - Cello on 3, 5
Richard Marcangelo - Percussion on 6