[[File:Dreams2.jpg|200px|right]]"Dreams Nightmares And Improvisations" is a 2012 album by Chad Wackerman. Allan plays guitar throughout, as well as playing the StarrSwitch on some tracks. The StarrSwitch is a MIDI controller made by StarrLabs, https://www.starrlabs.com/
[[File:Undertheblossom.jpg|200px|right]]"Under The Blossom" is a 2005 compilation album by Tempest. The first disc of this compilation contains the two studio albums by Tempest, which featured Allan on the first. The second disc contains 7 tracks from a BBC live recording featuring both Allan and his replacement Ollie Halsall.
==Track listing==
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|+Chad Wackerman: Dreams Nightmares And Improvisations ([[Allan Holdsworth Discography|D]])
|+Tempest: Under The Blossom, disc 1 ([[Allan Holdsworth Discography|D]])
You’ve recently been more active in terms of touring and working on new material than you’ve been in years. Why did you pause your career and what’s behind the resurgence of activity?
Things were going well until 1999 when I went through a divorce and that changed everything. I lost my studio and had no way of working, so I was temporarily displaced for the first year or so. I was living with friends, floating around, and things ground to a halt. I went into a big downward slide and didn’t do anything. I wasn’t interested in playing. Meeting Leonardo Pavkovic, who runs the MoonJune label, was the biggest thing in getting my career going again. He’s been amazing in helping me manage a lot of things. I started touring again during the last two years and I’m going to have to tell Leonardo to stop, otherwise he’ll keep me on the road forever. [laughs] I also started working again on two album projects that were never finished. They should both come out in 2008. I also have a few tracks that I’ll be finishing for Chad Wackerman’s new solo album. That one has been going on for awhile too. I did quite a few tracks for it in Australia around the time of the All Night Wrong project. So, I’m now playing catch up. I put out the Against the Clock compilation just to do something. I figured there were enough albums out that we could put out a reasonably good “best of” from them. I thought it was also a good release for people who weren’t familiar with my work.
==[[Allan Holdsworth (Sound Waves 2012)]]==
I understand that your most recent recording is for a '''Chad''' '''Wackerman''' solo project. Please tell me about this new record.
The album is titled “Dreams, Nightmares and Improvisations.” The recording of this album was spread over a very long time. His last studio record was released almost as long ago as mine. We started recording some of the tracks in Australia about eight years ago, and then he just kept adding to it. It was a long process, and we recorded a few tracks at a time, and he recently decided that he finally had enough tracks to put out an album. So that was that.
"Under The Blossom" is a 2005 compilation album by Tempest. The first disc of this compilation contains the two studio albums by Tempest, which featured Allan on the first. The second disc contains 7 tracks from a BBC live recording featuring both Allan and his replacement Ollie Halsall.
