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Steve Vai: The Ultra Zone
by Scott Andrews
Guitarist/composer Steve Vai helped lead the late 80s instrumental metal, “shred" guitar wave with his lead guitar work in several metal bands and his second solo album Passion and Warfare (1990). However, Vai's roots ran musically deeper than most of his instrumental metal colleagues, partly due to his stint in Frank Zappa's band and his idiosyncratic ...
XL: Jukola
by Scott Andrews
A four piece band from Finland, XL's second album Jukola showcases a breathtaking depth of sonic collage in eleven songs of melodic, instrumental rock. Jukola mixes throbbing dance beats with rock and jazz passages, spacey ambient sections with driving rock riffs, live instruments with electronics and processing, all framed in eccentric arrangements with dynamics that range ...
Shawn Lane: The Tritone Fascination
by Scott Andrews
Memphis guitarist and composer Shawn Lane continually blurs the lines between solo composer, guitar hero, and fusion improvisationalist. Lane may be the best unknown fusion guitarist, or the most musical guitar “shredder," or simply a gifted guitarist, pianist, and composer whose anonymity masks his impressive versatility and talent. Instrumental guitar fans know Lane's work from his ...
Waldon Reed, Jr.: Resonance Reconnaissance
by Scott Andrews
Waldon Reed's refreshingly non-derivative Resonance Reconnaissance features an electric fusion trio of guitar, bass, and electronic drums. Reed handles all the guitar, and occasional keyboard sequencing, with Paul Laginess on bass and Norm Euker on drums. The songwriting, all by Reed, consists of riff based fusion with sparse clean guitar parts, including an introduction to “Corean ...
Volare': Memoirs...
by Scott Andrews
Volare', an instrumental, Canterbury prog style band from Athens, GA, released their sole full length CD The Uncertainty Principle in 1997 on Laser's Edge and disbanded within the following year. Memoirs..., on Pleasant Green Records, combines the five songs on their out of print, self-titled debut cassette from July 1996 with “Memoirs of a Misshapen Man," ...
Martin Koller's Third Movement: Right Now
by Scott Andrews
Austrian guitarist/composer/producer Martin Koller combines techno/electronica and fusion with his band Martin Koller's Third Movement on their third release Right Now. Unlike some electronic prog/fusion that hardly retains any semblance of jazz or fusion, Koller's work remains firmly rooted in a jazz/fusion feel below the noisy sonic surface. Right Now sounds like a cross between the ...
Priam: 3 distances / irregular signs
by Scott Andrews
Priam, a French instrumental quartet named after the King of Troy in the Greek legend of that city's fall, plays melodic prog rock with ethereal synth breaks. The songs on 3 distances / irregular signs are arranged into three suites, each with three parts. Soaring guitar melodies move seamlessly into melodic solos and back to composed ...
Vital Information: Live Around the World: The 'Where We Come From' Tour 1998-1999
by Scott Andrews
Drummer Steve Smith (Journey, Stanley Clarke) founded Vital Information in the early 80s. With Frank Gambale on guitar (Jean-Luc Ponty, Chick Corea), Tom Coster on organ (Billy Cobham, Santana), and Jeff Andrews on bass, Vital Information returned to the style of their 60s and 70s fusion and instrumental rock influences like Miles Davis, and The Meters, ...
David Fiuczynski: Jazz Punk
by Scott Andrews
David “Fuze" Fiuczynski, prolific guitarist and songwriter, first gained fame as the leader and primary writer for Screaming Headless Torsos. SHT wielded a funk/jazz/hard rock fusion with full knowledge and rendition of the varied styles they appropriated. Many bands dabble in cross-style combinations without really understanding the other genres they explore, but Fuze and SHT truly ...
John McLaughlin: The Heart of Things - Live in Paris
by Scott Andrews
On the self-titled 1997 studio record from his electric fusion bandThe Heart of Things, John McLaughlin's songwriting ranged from pensive ebb to wild clamor, played with melody and passion by the five piece band, while McLaughlin assumed the background role of a mentor. Some McLaughlin fans maligned the music as sterile and dry, lacking the spark ...
