Leírás
Avantgarde Rock, Experimental, Art Rock, Jam Band, Psychedelic Rock, LP kiadvány, 2024-es album.
BASIC, a mind-meld between Chris Forsyth, his frequent running partner (and formidable 6-string thinker) Nick Millevoi, and Mikel Patrick Avery presents This Is BASIC, a complex and entrancing instrumental LP recasting forgotten scraps of guitar history into a moving mosaic of strings, skins and electronics. Back in the mid 1980s (a moment in music history as remote to us now as bebop was to us back then), there was an entire subgenre spawned by prog-rock-gone-new-wave icons meeting up to make sounds, their names reading like a panoply of druggy law firms: Manzanera & Bruford, Fripp & Summers, French/Frith/Kaiser/Thompson.
Their records clogged pre-internet college radio playlists, cut-out bins and public library shelves, but served as a touchstone for heads seeking inspiration from deeper wells than FM rock radio (which was fixated, then as now, on the Eagles and Led Zeppelin). Far from being mere self-indulgences, these “side projects” were, at best, outlets for exploration of then-novel technologies (looping, drum programming, sampling, etc.) for creators otherwise stuck in 1970s projects moribund with fan expectations and music-biz balance sheets.
The name of the nascent trio was, of course, obvious: BASIC, capitalized to distinguish themselves from the inspirational Quine/Maher text, and to introduce connotations with another 1980s trope, the obsolete programming language some of us learned back when you learned such things. BASIC, more importantly, denotes returning to one’s roots—in this case, Philly living room jams tangential to bands, arrangements, and songs; loved LPs lost to history, but not to the minds conceiving the music. To end with Mikel: “There’s universality without sacrificing identity or integrity. The music allows space for different minds to live within it.” Which, after all, is the most basic offering music has for anyone.
Felállás:
Chris Forsyth: guitar
Nick Millevoi: baritone guitar & drum machine
Mikel Patrick Avery: percussion & electronics
Felvételek:
LP:
1. For Stars of the Air 09:11
2. Nerve Time 05:04
3. Positive Halfway 07:29
4. Last Resort of the Gambling Man 04:09
5. Versatile Switch 05:45
6. New Auspicious 06:54
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