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Artist | Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band
Title | Intensity Ghost
Genre | Psychedelic Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 39:01
Label | No Quarter Store | 2014
Catalog | NOQ-041 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 242 kbps Size | 71.61 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. The Ballad Of Freer Hollow 11:24
02. Yellow Square 8:45
03. I Ain't Waiting 5:15
04. Intensity Ghost 6:37
05. Paris Song 7:00
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Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band initially came together as a studio
project for its guitarist/leader's "Solar Motel" album, which was released
in October of 2013 by Paradise Of Bachelors. The album - a four-part suite
that traced the guitar's developmental terrain in rock from Jerry Garcia to
Tom Verlaine and back again - was performed with drummer Mike Pride,
keyboardist Shawn Edward Hansen, and electric bassist Peter Kerin. The
group situation opened more possibilities for the guitarist, who had been
known primarily as a solo artist and collaborator. Billed as Chris Forsyth
& The Solar Motel Band, they became a touring concern and issued the
concert recording "Solar Live 11.15.13" on Electric Ragtime in April of
2014.
Pride left the group shortly thereafter and Forsyth, Hansen, and Kerin,
were joined by drummer Steven Urgo and second guitarist Paul Sukeena for
the studio album follow-up "Intensity Ghost", issued by No Quarter in
October. Double-album "The Rarity Of Experience" appeared in 2016, with the
group's lineup consisting of Forsyth, Kerin, Urgo, Hansen, and additional
guitarist Nick Millevoi. Drummer Ray Kubian replaced Urgo after the
recording of the album.
Forsyth assembled a studio to record the four-part "Solar Motel" suite,
issued on Paradise of Bachelors in 2013. That offering is a sprawling
meditation on the evolution of the rock & roll electric guitar from the
psychedelia of the Grateful Dead and the spiraling blues-rock of the Allman
Brothers to the rhythmic, interlocking, melodic grooves of Television and
the multi-tonal experiments of Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth. After its
release and a tour, the individuals felt so good about it they decided to
form a band. Bassist Peter Kerlin and keyboardist Shawn Edward Hansen
return, with new drummer Steven Urgo and additional guitarist Paul Sukeena.
"Intensity Ghost" is not part two of "Solar Motel".
Instead, it's comprised of five focused, more economical songs that
collectively cover plenty of ground. Who would have thought there was room
left to explore the basic blues boogie form in the 21st century? Check the
pyrotechnic call-and-response slide guitars, swirling keyboards, and fat
bassline in "Yellow Square" for an answer. "The Ballad Of Freer Hollow"
employs the ringing twin tonalities of Television's live two-guitar attack
as a way of extracting melodic minutiae from crescendo-driven rock; the end
result is nearly cinematic in scope. The swelling organs, drop snares, and
droning bassline offer not only rhythmic support but color, dimension, and
breadth. "I Ain't Waiting", the briefest cut here, commences from a
skeletal root of reverb-laden modal query into a fully lyric midtempo
ballad with wide-open emotional expression.
Its intricate bassline engages the repetitive vamp of cascading six-strings
in a wonderful dialogue. "Intensity Ghost" begins as a driving, clattering,
vamping, hard rock strut. It unfolds with lusher yet knottier breaks, and
every one of his influences - among them Richard Thompson and Steve Hunter
- can be heard before erupting into a Mick Ronson-esque glam jam. Closer
"Paris Song" is constructed out of ringing harmonics, organ drones,
whole-tone single notes, and washed-out open chords. They open onto a
silvery, liquid, textural meditation on Jimi Hendrix's "1983 A Merman I
Should Turn To Be" and the open-ended questions in the heart of the Dead's
"Dark Star".
The rumbling tom-toms provide the only drama until the closing minute, when
blissed-out guitar and organ chords commingle. "Intensity Ghost" is more a
companion to "Solar Motel" than a continuation. It gels because it's the
sound of a band playing to its collective strength. The music focuses so
intently on its inspirations, it creates something new and powerful from
them.
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