Soft Heap - A Veritable Centaur (1982)
Soft Heap - A Veritable Centaur (1982)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
1995 | Impetus Records, IMP CD 18219 | ~ 397 or 176 Mb | Scans Included
Free Jazz, Fusion, Jazz Rock
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
1995 | Impetus Records, IMP CD 18219 | ~ 397 or 176 Mb | Scans Included
Free Jazz, Fusion, Jazz Rock
Soft Heap indeed. This is none other than Soft Machine saxophonist Elton Dean with fellow proggers Pip Pyle and Mark Hewins with avant-rocker John Greaves. So what do you think this live recording from a French date in 1982 (with one track from BBC Radio in 1983) sounds like? Seriously, though, Soft Heap was a branch-out version of Soft Machine that had previously featured Hugh Hopper on bass and Alan Gowen on keyboards. This later incarnation of the band played mighty, mighty spaced-out, crazy-driven music that was freely improvised, but more often than not here sounds like warped psychedelia from another era (think No-Neck Blues Band). The interplay and communication between these musicians is stellar in scope and depth. They had hung around with each other enough for the previous decade or so to create plenty from nothing. None of the track titles mean anything because the music here is beyond the simple breakdown of selections, and it all folds together like some maze of hedges and flowers. Dean is more relaxed here than he usually is, not out front driving the band, but holding a part of the space for Hewins' shimmering, crunching, squawking guitar with tone extenders to boot. And then there's Pyle, who can slip into his old Hatfield mode at the drop of an arpeggio by Dean or fall back on the limber side of the kit and play sparingly with his hands. Greaves is the voice of sanity in all this if you can imagine it; his bass and organ playing provides atmospheric offerings to build upon and wind into for the others. What it all adds up to is sublime weirdness with a tender, emotional heart.by Thom Jurek, AMG
Soft Heap - A Veritable Centaur (1982)
Soft Heap - A Veritable Centaur (1982):
Soft Heap - A Veritable Centaur (1982)
Tracklist:
1. Dying Dolphins (1:53)
2. A Veritable Centaur (6:37)
3. Space Funk (2:24)
4. Tunnel Vision (2:01)
5. Nutty Dread (1:12)
6. Bossa Nochance (5:42)
7. Jackie's Acrylic Coat (4:42)
8. Thaid Up (4:39)
9. A Flap (3:37)
10. Day The Thirst Stood Still (9:59)
11. Toot De Sweet (26:24)
Musicians:
- Elton Dean / saxes
- John Greaves / bass
- Mark Hewins / guitar
- Pip Pyle / drums and percussion
- Alain Eckhart / guitar
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
EAC extraction logfile from 5. October 2013, 12:35
Soft Heap / A Veritable Centaur
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EAC extraction logfile from 5. October 2013, 12:35
Soft Heap / A Veritable Centaur
Used drive : HL-DT-STBDDVDRW GBC-H20N Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
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Read offset correction : 667
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Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
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Used output format : User Defined Encoder
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Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Additional command line options : -hm %source% %dest%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 1:53.05 | 0 | 8479
2 | 1:53.05 | 6:36.65 | 8480 | 38244
3 | 8:29.70 | 2:23.45 | 38245 | 49014
4 | 10:53.40 | 2:01.15 | 49015 | 58104
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6 | 14:06.27 | 5:41.43 | 63477 | 89094
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9 | 29:08.37 | 3:37.23 | 131137 | 147434
10 | 32:45.60 | 9:58.45 | 147435 | 192329
11 | 42:44.30 | 26:23.47 | 192330 | 311101
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Extraction speed 6.1 X
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Copy CRC F3D29554
Copy OK
No errors occurred
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Analyzed: Soft Heap / A Veritable Centaur
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DR13 -0.31 dB -16.71 dB 6:37 02-A Veritable Centaur
DR7 -0.80 dB -11.62 dB 2:24 03-Space Funk
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DR10 -0.70 dB -14.05 dB 9:59 10-Day The Thirst Stood Still
DR12 0.00 dB -16.08 dB 26:24 11-Toot De Sweet
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR11
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 755 kbps
Codec: FLAC
log date: 2016-10-09 01:58:30
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Analyzed: Soft Heap / A Veritable Centaur
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -0.70 dB -14.05 dB 9:59 10-Day The Thirst Stood Still
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Soft Heap - A Veritable Centaur (1982)
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