ROAD GAMES

This is jazz fusion and the foreground instrument is electric guitar. The musicians involved here are virtuosos: Allan HOLDSWORTH on guitars, Jeff Berlin on fretless bass and Chad Wackerman (drummer of Frank ZAPPA in the 80's) on drums. The electric guitar is full of effects, and mainly it consists in swelling the chords with a volume pedal. This effect is more accentuated on his "I.O.U." album. It gives a beautiful modern sound, very atmospheric and dreamy: it almost sound as a keyboard note. But HOLDSWORTH here plays also a more conventional guitar sound, which is never dull. So it is fast or mellow electric guitars through tons of amazing drums and outstanding bass. The ensemble is never simple.