Allan Holdsworth: Letters Of Marque (Frankfurt ’86 Experimental Remix)

This video is an experimental remix of Allan’s performance of “Letters Of Marque“ from the Frankfurt ’86 jazz festival. The audio and video is sourced from the 2020 release by Manifesto Records, links below. The master tape was taken from the two-channel broadcast version, which has some issues with levels, in particular the drums suffer in the mix. To see what could be done about this, the stereo audio was split into multitrack stems by Spleeter, which uses artificial intelligence to separate instruments. The stems were imported into Cakewalk by Bandlab. Some eq and compression/limiting was applied, and levels were adjusted. The Spleeter software is very impressive, but not perfect yet. Some artifacts can be heard throughout. It does however bring out nuances in the playing which you may enjoy. Let me know what you think! Allan Holdsworth, guitar Kei Akagi, keyboards Gary Husband, drums Jimmy Johnson, bass Original audio: