All Time Present

All Time PresentThe annals of music history are overflowing with gifted guitar players whose egos prevented them from reaching their full potential: rather than being content to be exceptional members of a band, they instead create unexceptional records as leaders in vain attempts to prove their worth as a solo artist. Guitarist songwriter bandleader Chris Forsyth is the rare exception that proves the rule. Rightfully but somewhat reductively known as a guitar player

Jandek and many other less recognizable names

those shibboleths of the American Primitives

it exists at higher elevations — of decibel

accompanied by tape loops

It could only be Snock

The glorious opener “Are You Here For The Festival” – punctuated by a pair of violins – came to him while working in the garden

Strong Feelings bears his usual trademark signature

"Still Valentine's Day 1969" is comprised of two live shows recorded at The Matrix in San Francisco in 1969 with Bull playing shimmering electric guitar and oud

A deep clean spring

critically jazz ambitions and 20th century composition

one listen to Forsyth's latest double album

No effects beyond those of the guitar amplifier and speed-/pitch-adjustments applied to source recordings were used