Results for "Mystic Form Records"

When Satellites Speak

August 18, 2021

Album: Declaration of Resonance
By Chris Alford
Label: Mystic Form Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 5:47

Storm Warnings

July 5, 2021

Album: TAG Thompson/Alford/Golden 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

Chris Alford

New Orleans based improviser/guitarist/composer Chris Alford utilizes a spherical approach in his artistry. In one hemisphere is the deep tradition of jazz and blues languages of the past and in the other is avant-garde, unconventional, creative syntax. Warping the old with the new, Alford keeps his feet rooted in the ground all the while looking beyond the horizon. He is just as likely to galvanize an audience with peculiar, angular, sharp flourishes as he is to allure with luscious, atmospheric harmony and melodies. An openness to sound and collaboration allows Alford to shape and guide the music in an organic flow.

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.