Alex Skolnick Trio - Prove You're Not a Robot - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

ALEX SKOLNICK InchI feel this album represents my strongest work as a composer, with several pieces written at the pianoInch the bandleader offers. InchThe soloing also went to new places for all of us. Nathan and Matt really brought their A-game throughout. I think it's safe to say this is the record we're all most proud of.Inch___________________________________As their sixth album, the title has multiple meanings. On the one hand, it reflects the effort to hold onto the  collective humanity in an era of increasing reliance on technology. Secondly, it represents the notion that the process of direct human interaction - particularly music that captures inspired improvisations and compositions - cannot be replaced with AI. Additionally, the title refers to a time of unprecedented political polarization coupled by mass addiction to social media and people who exhibit robot-like behavior. Finally, it is a phrase that should be all too familiar to anyone who's ever forgotten their online password, a situation humorously captured in the video for the title track.Although original songs make up the majority of PYNAR, there are two quirky arrangements in the classic AST mold, including InchBreakdownInch (Tom Petty) and a mind-bending mashup no one saw coming, InchArmando's Mood,Inch which pays tribute the late piano master Chick Corea and Yes guitarist Steve Howe.

Alex Skolnick Trio / TRANSFORMATION - Brand new reissue and first ever vinyl pressing of the second album from famed Testament six-string slayer Alex Skolnick and his jazz trio! Inspired by a 1964 live recording of John Coltrane, Skonick entered the world of jazz music in the late '90s and put together his own jazz combo that has since relased 6 studio albums and helped bring jazz music to a new audience of metal heads!

Whenever we think of the greatest guitar players of all-time, Steve Morse is a name that's always in the conversation. The American musician started his career in the mid-70s playing mind-melting jazz-rock in The Dixie Dregs, racking up multiple Grammy nominations in the process. The following decade he formed the Steve Morse Band and joined arena heavyweights Kansas, before being recruited by rock and roll originals Deep Purple in 1994. And despite being in one of the world's biggest bands, he continued to innovate in other projects like Living Loud, Angelfire and Flying Colors - as well as guitar supergroup G3 - showing the world just how much versatility there was in those magic fingers. He announced his departure from Deep Purple in 2022, choosing to take care of his wife who passed away in 2024, by that point having become their longest serving guitar player. Naturally, the last few years have been the most personally traumatic of his life - which is perhaps why this year's creative comeback with the new Steve Morse Band album Triangulation embodies the spirit of a master returning to do what he does best. It's nine tracks are a thrilling ride through the mind of a musician who seemingly knows no bounds, crossing over into a cornucopia of sounds and styles from funk and blues to classical and metal. He is someone who has written some of the most powerful instrumental music the world has ever heard and certainly knows a thing or two about how to make his guitar resonate and command just as much attention as the human voice