Alex Machacek - Improvision - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This formidable power trio of guitarist Alex Machacek, 5-string electric bassist Matthew Garrison and drummer Jeff Sipe is impossibly intense, dripping with staggering virtuosity and fertile ideas and seething with the kind of raucous improvisational abandon that we haven't seen since the heyday of Tribal Tech. The opening track of their new album says it all InchThere's a New Sheriff in Town.Inch Machacek's mind-boggling technique is an obvious place to begin in singing the praises of this exciting new triumvirate. There is also a remarkable depth to the writing here, which comes across on harmonically sophisticated pieces like the atmospheric ballad InchVery Sad,Inch the compelling InchShona,Inch the gentle, darkly alluring InchTo Whom It May ConcernInch and the gorgeous InchPut Me Back to Sleep.Inch Album Tracks 1. There's a New Sheriff in Town 2. Along Came a Spider 3. Shona 4. Gem 1 5. Gem 2 6. To Whom It May Concern 7. Yoga for Cats Part 1 8. Yoga for Cats Part 2 9. Very Sad 10. Matt's Riff 11. Put Me Back to Sleep