Chris Forsyth – Solar Motel (Expanded & Remastered) (2013/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:47 minutes | 837 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Experimental Rock, Art Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Algorithm Free
Over the last two decades Philadelphia-based guitarist Chris Forsyth has released over a dozen critically lauded albums that have established him as one of today’s most unique and acclaimed guitar player /composers – a forward-thinking classicist synthesizing cinematic expansiveness with a pithy lyricism and rhythmic directness that makes even his 20-minute workouts feel as clear, direct, and memorable as a 4-minute song.
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Chris Forsyth – Evolution Here We Come (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:12 minutes | 975 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © No Quarter
To wit, if you think you know already what you’ll be getting into here—heady, Television-esque multi-guitar jams played with motorik precision and a fiercely American intensity: you know, a Forsyth record—well, go ahead and think that. I won’t stop you. Only… maybe the pulsing bass, curiously lurching drumbeat, and lunar synth squiggling of Sun Ra Arkestra maestro Marshall Allen that opens “Experimental & Professional” will set you back on your heels. But just for a moment, before Ryan Jewell’s drums and Tortoise alum Douglas McCombs’s bass twine into perfect alignment and then guitars—played by Forsyth and Tom Malach (of Garcia Peoples)—start chipping and hammering, twittering and sparring, the whole thing managing to evoke Remain in Light without sounding remotely like it.
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