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Listen/purchase: Seven For Lee by Soft Head (Hugh Hopper / Elton Dean / Alan Gowen / Dave Sheen)

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Elton Dean / Alan Gowen / Hugh Hopper / Dave Sheen / Soft Head Rogue Element

Canterbury scenesters Alan Gowen, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean and drummer Dave Sheen as Soft Head in France in 1978. The quartet hoped to draw frustrated fans of both Soft Machine and Gilgamesh. This electric jazz date is excellent , primarily due to Gowen's compositions and arrangements that walk a tense line between strictly composed elements and improvisation, and the fire of the band themselves, who are -- on this night anyway -- inspired beyond belief. Thank God somebody recorded it.

- Thom Jurek

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Elton Dean / Alan Gowen / Hugh Hopper / Dave Sheen / Soft Head Rogue Element

On this night in 1978, Alan Gowen, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean and drummer Dave Sheen delivered an electric jazz date. Though all but the drummer contributed tunes, it is Gowen's compositions and arrangements that walk the fulfilling yet tense line between strictly composed elements and improvisation, as the band -- inspired beyond belief – fire on all cylinders.

- Thom Jurek