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Chris Alford

Mississippi native Chris Alford is a creative guitarist and composer who has performed in juke joints as well as concert halls around the country. Equally adept playing bebop, rock, free improvisation or blues, his unique guitar voice has no stylistic bounds, yet retains a distinctive personal approach. He is just as likely to galvanize an audience with peculiar, angular, electric flourishes as he is to allure with luscious, atmospheric harmonies. An openness to sound and collaboration, allows Alford to shape and guide the music in an organic flow. Since 2009, Alford has been active in a flourishing, creative music scene in New Orleans

Declaration of Resonance

By Chris Alford

Label: Mystic Form Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. When Namuza Stirs 03:57 2. Declaration of Resonance 04:37 3. Webern(ing) 02:45 4. Lillith and the Human Contradiction 02:36 5. Blues of Other Orbits 05:41 6. Satellites Speak 05:27 7. Kuiper Belt 04:54 8. Binary Friction 02:00 9. Blood has Ghost 04:31 10. The Author of Danger 02:54 11. Catalyst for Cleansing 04:43

Turning On Our Own Time

By Chris Alford

Label: Mystic Form Records
Released: 2021

Deer Heads to Infinity

By Chris Alford

Label: Mystic Form Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Track 01 Deer Heads to Infinity (Kintsugi excerpt) Track 02 The Caramel Equation Track 03 Not Waving, Not Drowning Track 04 Loki Crow Track 05 Call the Fire Eater (Kintsugi excerpt) Track 06 Prime Meridian: for Alvin Fielder ( Kintsugi excerpt) Track 07 Red Rooster: for Davey Williams Track 08 A Place in LaPlace ( Kintsugi excerpt) Track 09 That Koan About a Mountain (Kintsugi excerpt) Track 10 Storm Warnings Track 11 Between the A and the T: a Prepositional Proposition (Kintsugi excerpt) Track 12 Crocodile Song Track 13 Farewell, Arecibo

Storm Warnings

July 5, 2021

Album: Deer Heads to Infinity
By Chris Alford
Label: Mystic Form Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 3:30

Alternative Guitar: Elif Yalvaç, Rachika Nayar, SkyCreature, Kristinn Kristinsson and Tristan Welch

by Mark Sullivan
May 11, 2021

There is something about the electric guitar that inspires players to utilize electronics to create a more complex sound than previously possible with a solo guitar. Electronic processing offers ways to dramatically alter the guitar's dynamic envelope and timbre, sometimes resulting in a guitar that does not sound like a guitar at all. Add on live ...

Take Root Among the Stars

April 16, 2021

Album: The Breath of Galaxies
By Chris Alford
Label: Mystic Form Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 08:47

A Course in Water

April 13, 2021

Album: Turning On Our Own Time
By Chris Alford
Label: Mystic Form Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 5:01

Duos, Vibes, Guitars and Electric Miles

by Bob Osborne
March 4, 2021

This week fantastic albums featuring duos, extended improvisations influenced by electric period Miles Davis, and, to compliment that some actual electric period Miles, plus new sounds with vibes and guitars. Playlist Chris Alford & Justin Peake “Mullerian Mimicry" from Turning On Our Own Time (Mystic Form Records) 00:00 Gus Garside and Hervé Perez “The ...

The Breath of Galaxies

By Chris Alford

Label: Mystic Form Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Prelude to the Multiverse; Pleiades (coping with sorrow); Take Root Among the Stars; Adrift in the Chasm; Lunar Chorale; Returning on the Wind; Sagitarius A*; Tamu Massif; In the Clouds of Venus.