❉ Allan Holdsworth -- The Sixteen Men Of Tain ❉ Coming on the heels of some rather mediocre efforts, The Sixteen Men of Tain is startlingly superb. Allan Holdsworth has stripped away the distracting banks of keyboards and allowed his soaring, gliding guitar to shine through in a way it hasn't since the 1980s. Even the Synthaxe, Holdsworth's signature guitar synthesizer, sounds organic and immediate, not to mention far less prevalent than on previous albums. Dave Carpenter's acoustic bass is a radical departure (check out his solo on the title track), as are Walt Fowler's (ex-Frank Zappa) two guest appearances Read more on Last.fm.
