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Forever Einstein

RIO/Avant-Prog

3.37 | 10 ratings

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Evolver
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Crossover & JR/F/Canterbury Teams

Take one part Discipline era King Crimson. Subtract one guitar and most electronics, add one part Doctor Nerve and one part The Residents. Shake well, and your results? Forever Einstein!

I first saw this band when they opened for the aforementioned Doctor Nerve at a Cuneiforms Records tour. I was immediately taken by the group's deceptively simple compositions masking much more complex ideas.

Guitarist Chuck Vrtacek (Charles O'Meara) plays acoustic guitar through a few effects, and manages to come up with an interesting array of sounds. From basic acoustic guitar to fuzzed out simulated electric (on a quirky but cool cover of Jimi Hendrix's Manic Depression), Vrtacek plays seemingly simply, but actually somewhat complex tapestries.

As I mentioned above, the song structures remind me quite a bit of Discipline, while the chords and tones often evoke early Dr. Nerve. And the sparseness with intermittent ferocity brings to mind The Residents. (BTW, if you can find Vrtacek's Residents parody, Now Available, get it. It's right on the mark.)

Evolver | 4/5 | 2009-11-18

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