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| Lyn Dobson's career in music has spanned 4 decades, starting in the 60's as a sideman and featured soloist with Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames and Manfred Mann. Lyn played the solo flute choruses on Manfred's big 60's hit single, 'Pretty Flamingo', for example, and Lyn became very much in demand as a session musician on recordings from that time onwards, recording with Humble Pie, The Locomotive, Ray Russell and others. In 1970 Lyn was extremely busy in the studios, playing on Keef Hartley's 'Battle of NW6", Nick Drake's "Bryter Later" and John Martyn's "The Road To Ruin" before hooking up with The Soft Machine to record on three tracks ("Facelift", "Slightly all the time" and "Moon in June") for their classic album "Third". Over the next three years, Lyn recorded albums with Mike D'Abo, Mick Softley and others and made a third album with Keef Hartley - "Little Big Band". In 1974, Lyn recorded his first solo album - "Jam Sandwich", in between working on "Some Days You Eat The Bear" for Ian Mathews & Southern Comfort. More recordings with Humble Pie, Alan Stivell and Soft Machine saw out the decade, after which Lyn took a break from recording during the 1980's. During this period, Lyn worked extensively in theatre, dance and drama and multimedia productions and also became involved in Music Therapy for disabled people - giving both one-to-one sessions and group 'workshops'. Lyn's 'Sound & Colour Therapy' workshops involve 'overtoning' with the saxaphone alongside projected colours of the 'Chakras' - which combine sounds and colours to produce healing energies. |
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| George Fame & The Blue Flames - "Two Faces of Fame" (CBS 63018, UK 1967) Manfred Mann - "Soul of Mann" (HMV CLP 3594, UK 1967) Keef Hartley - "Halfbread" (Deram SML 1037, UK 1969) Humble Pie - "As Safe as yesterday is" (Immediate IMPS 025, UK 1969) Locomotive - "We are everything you see (Parlophone PCS 70093, UK 1969) Ray Russell - "Dragon Hill" (CBS 52663, UK 1969) Nick Drake - "Bryter Layter" (Island ILPS 9134, UK 1970) Keef Hartley - "Battle of NW6" (Deram SML 1054, UK 1970) People Band - "People Band" (Translantic TRA 214, UK 1970) John Martyn - "The Road to ruin" (Isand ILPS 9133, UK 1970) Soft Machine - "Third" (CBS) 66246, UK 1970) Featured on: Facelift. Slightly all the time. Moon in June. Out-Bloody- rageous Mick Softley - "Sunrise" (CBS 64098, UK 1970) Miller Anderson - "Bright City" (Deram SDL 3, UK 1971) Daylight - "Daylight" (RCA SF8194, UK 1971) Mick Greenwood - "Living Game" (MCA 8003, UK 1971) Keef Hartley - "Little Big Band" (Deram SDL 4, UK 1971) Brian Short - "Anything for a laugh" (Transatlantic TRA 245 245, UK 1971) Mike D'Abo - "Down at Rachel's Place" (A&M AMLH 68097, UK 1972) Mick Softley - "Any mother doesn't grumble" (CBS 64841, UK 1972) Mike Hugg - "Stress & Strain (Polydor 2383 213, UK 1973) Lyn Dobson - "Jam Sandwich" (Fresh Air 6370501, UK 1974) Ian Matthews & Southern Comfor - "Some days you eat the Bear" (Elektra K42160, UK 1974) Humble Pie - "Back Home Again" (Immediate IML 1005, UK 1976) Humble Pie - "Greatest Hits" (Immediate IML 2005, UK 1977) Featured on: Esther's Nose Job. Mousetrap. Noisette. Backwards. Mousetrap reprise. Slightly all the time. Out bloody rageous. (radio sessions different from Soft Machine's "Third") Soft Machine - "Triple Echo" (Harvest SHTW 800, UK 1977) Alan Stivell - "Before Landing" (Fontana 9286999, FR 1977) Flys - "Wakiki Beach Refugees" (EMI EMC 3249, UK 1978) Foolband - "Foolband" (Electric Trix 10, UK 1979) Hazchem - "Strange Attractor" (Worldwide ???, GE 1990) Soft Machine - The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit SFRLP 201, UK 1990) Featured on: same as "Triple Echo" Third Ear Band - "Magic Music" (Materiali Sonori MASO 33053, ITA 1991) Featured on: Behind the pyramids. Reading the runes. Solstice song. Sun Ra raga. Necromancy. Hazchem - "Star Map Excursion" (Wordwide??, GE 1991) Various Artists - "All Frontiers" (Materiali Sonori MASO 90026, ITA 1991) CD Featured on: Live Ghosts. Third Ear Band - "Brain Waves" (Materiali Sonori MASO 90045, ITA 1993) CD Featured on: Sirocco song. Midnight drums. Spell of the Voodoo. Dances with dolphins. Water into wine. Alchemical Raga. Psychedelic trance dance. Hall, Coxill, Clyne, Rutherford, Dobson - "Figments of imagination" (Future Music?, UK 1996) Third Ear Band - Live (Voiceprint VP 157, UK 1996) CD Featured on: Hymn to the Sphynx. Sun Ra Raga. Third Ear Raga. Live Ghosts. Pyramid Song. Egyptian Book of the Dead. Third Ear Band - "Magic Music" (Blueprint BP 257, UK 1997) CD Featured on: Gog and Magog. Flight on the Coven. Dance of the Elves. Atlantis Rising. Midnight. Soft Machine -"Noisettes"The year 2000 has seen the release of a Soft Machine 'best of' album called"Noisettes" which features some of the best of Lyn's work with the band. |
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| When I started playing music, I was looking for something to captivate my interest. The first things I found were Sonny Terry on a worn 78, Jelly Roll Morton, and the Modern Jazz Quartet. I thought I would find what I was looking for in Jazz, and I found a lot - but I was never totally convinced. While many of my contemporaries only listened to Jazz, I had already discovered Indian music, Stravinsky, and Celtic music. I became dissatisfied by the insularity of these Jazz musicians who only listened to Jazz, so I defected somewhat to the Folk camp. For a while I lived in Yorkshire and played in a Folk club and a Jazz club on alternate nights. I became interested in many Ethnic musics like Balinese, Chinese or whatever - and the links between them, the common denominators. More and more I became interested in pure sound, what makes emotion in a note, what kind of emotion is invoked. Jazz is a wonderful journey, but improvisation is integral to most forms of music. Indian music has structured improvisation with total precision, but still retains a strong emotional content and great freedom. Primitive village music from all over the world has improvisation mixed with structure - but above all a sound with emotion. Feeling is all in music, and I came to realize all sound can be healing or destructive, sometimes both - but essentially healing. The realization that all matter in the Universe is sound vibrating and colour vibrating with it is a fact of life. (I'm no scientist but I understand this to betrue.) I received healing at one period of my life from a healer who used colour visualization and sound using her voice at different frequencies. I feel more and more drawn towards using music and pure sound - including overtoning with the voice - a technique employed by many cultures - Tibetans, Tuvans, Mongolians. Using this technique combined with singing certain vowel sounds for the Chakras, the energy centres in the body. I have since worked with people who have various disabilities, both physical and mental, with a good degree of success. © 2000 Mike Collins |
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