Recorded twelve years before his latest release, the similarly-live All Night Wrong, and at the same location in Tokyo, guitarist Allan Holdsworth ... able to pull off tunes from Holdsworth's Synthaxe ...

Though he never saw great commercial success in his lifetime, Allan Holdsworth's one-of-a-kind ... which he first used on his 1986 album, Atavachron. As he explained in an interview with Guitar ...

Allan Holdsworth, a spellbinding guitarist who ... They brought out strange intervallic combinations: on "Looking Glass," from Atavachron, two notes on the lowest strings and two on the highest ...

Allan Holdsworth was born on Aug. 6 ... “Road Games.” On “Atavachron” (1986) and “Sand” (1987), Mr. Holdsworth introduced the SynthAxe, which could be activated with a breath ...