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Artist News: Allan Holdsworth's Pledgemusic Artist-To-Fan Campaign

Posted on Monday, April 27 @ 22:00:00 UTC by nightowl

Back in February, MoonJune Music in association with John McCracken Music Group and with the great support from PledgeMusic is thrilled to announce a new campaign with guitar legend Allan Holdsworth for Tales From The Vault, a collection of unreleased songs from Allan’s own private collection, written and recorded over the past 15 years, featuring various musicians with whom Allan has performed in the past one and a half decade: bassists Jimmy Johnson, Jimmy Haslip, Ernest Tibbs, Anthony Crawford, Bunny Brunel, and drummers Chad Wackerman, Gary Husband, Joel Taylor and Virgil Donati.

Fans have been waiting for over 14 years for new studio recordings from Allan and Allan has now chosen to release these through an extensive Pledge Music Campaign beginning February 24, 2015. The wait is finally over!

Allan Holdsworth has long been recognized worldwide by music fans and world class musicians alike as one the greatest guitar players ever. His "legato" style playing, unearthly chord voicings and his use of the Synthaxe have inspired and influenced many of the most significant guitar players of the last 40 years including Eddie Van Halen, John Frusciante, Steve Vai, Alex LIfeson, Pat Metheny, Frank Zappa, John Petrucci, Joe Satriani and many many more.

The California-based English-born composer and guitarist whose music has spanned multiple genres over more than four decades, continues to reinvent and redefine the guitar and continues in his tradition of playing with the very best instrumentalists in the jazz and progressive rock idioms. Fans will not be disappointed with this new collection of music that can only be described as "mind blowing."

In exchange for pledging, pledgers will receive digital downloads of Tales From The Vault as they are released over the next 6 to 8 months, signed AH signature HH2 Carvin guitars, behind the scenes video of his recording process, Allan’s technical specs for each release along with selected AH merchandise only available through the campaign. To view more details on the campaign visit here: www.pledgemusic.com/projects/allanholdsworth.

Special thanks [from MoonJune] are going to: wonderful and very supportive people at Pledge Music: Michelle Wong, Leigh Lust, Benji Rogers and Matt Pierson; Jeff Kiesel, Mike Jones and Richard Cruz at Carvin Guitars; Lorenza Coco at La Bella Strings; Chris Van Tassel at J Rocket Audio Designs, Jonathann Launer at Jonathann Launer Productionsr; all musicians involved in the project, and above all to all Allan Holdworth fans, old and new, from every corner of the world. Allan loves You all and appreciates Your continuos support, and above all, Your patience.

About PledgeMusic PledgeMusic is the world's leading online, direct-to-fan music community, offering artists a unique way to engage their fans in the music making experience while interacting with PledgeMusic's global community of music fans. Named as one of The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Music for "Helping artists and fans get what they want" (Fast Company). "PledgeMusic sees the platform as a marketing tool that connects fans with artists. Fans that offer their support receive artist updates and exclusive content until the culmination of the project. A campaign for an album might deliver studio reports and audio or videos of in-the-works recordings to supporters. The platform allows artists to integrate email databases, FaceBook fans, Twitter followers and various other social networking sites." (Billboard Music).

[Source: MoonJune, photo: © 2007 Stephanie Sollow - NearFest 2007]

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