Holdsworth was I guess what you'd call a guitarist's guitarist. Awesome technical skills. Melodic shredding before the term shredding was ever used in popular vernacular. A lot of odd sounding diminished scales (I think).
He was my hero back in the 70's when I was a "wish I could be a guitarist" or any kind of musician for that matter. That particular album was very much jazz-rock fusion, and IMO some of the best work Holdsworth ever did. Or all least IMO his best style.. I bought it on a whim, listened to it, discovered him, and went on a fevered search to find anything he did.
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