********NEW********ELTON DEAN (ex Soft Machine) Meets THE WRONG OBJECThttp://www.wrongobject.be.tfLegendary Soft Machine saxophonist Elton Dean and experimental jazz-rock band The Wrong Object will be joining forces next October to offer a new, original set logically entitled "Elton Dean Meets The Wrong Object".Probably still best known for his time with Soft Machine, saxophonist Elton Dean has been a highly respected player on the free jazz and new music scene for many years. His career began back in the mid sixties and continues to this day with an energy that shows no signs of abating. 20 years after he left Soft Machine his work from that era continues to reverberate. A recent resurgence of interest has enabled him to tap into a hitherto unrealised market in the USA and the far East. As far as Elton Dean is concerned the music comes first, commercial considerations have never been allowed to stand in the way of his desire to improve and explore. This philosophy has certainly not made him a fortune but has produced an impressive body of work which I am convinced will continue to grow. --Stephen Yarwood, All About Jazz
The title [The Wrong Object Play Zappa and a few Tunes of their Own] is no idle boast: Michel Delville, leader and guitarist of The Wrong Object from Liège, Belgium, is writing tunes which emulate Zappa's taste for succinct idiosyncrasy and melodic lilt.... in a modern music scene that regularly trundles out all the paraphernalia of intelligence (laptops, bald heads, performers' desk-tops like mad electronic laboratories), this is the real thing: an intelligent handling of the Zappa/King Crimson legacy, a tradition that questions the power of rock with musical, rather than moral, means. The clever title 'Cunnimingus' indicates where this group is coming from, as does Andrew Norris' surreal, warped curses versus George W Bush. --Ben Watson, Hifi News
