VINYL FORMAT. YMCA is guitarist Alan Licht's first solo release since 2003's A New York Minute double CD (on XI), and his first solo vinyl outing since 1994's long out-of-print Sink the Aging Process (on Siltbreeze). Largely recorded at a 2004 concert at a Cambridge Massachusetts YMCA by Keith Fullerton Whitman, YMCA documents Licht's solo guitar set of the time -- a three-part structured improvisation that moves from mournful, layered sustained tones that sound more like a reed organ than a guitar, to a g...   [ read more ]

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RESTOCK. Inspired equally by punk, free jazz, classic rock, minimalism, experimental film, and conceptual art, Licht is, simply, the only guitar player able to eliminate the gap between Derek Bailey and Eddie Van Halen. Licht's solo journeys are the ultimate forum for his all-encompassing guitar approach, and Plays Well is the most ambitious display so far of his ever-morphing world of sound and vision. 'Remington Khan' is a spiral staircase of note-climbing and tone-pulling, as Licht patiently builds a br...   [ read more ]

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RESTOCK. Is there anybody out there who's a fan of reading rock criticism? Yeah, us neither! Because in this modern world, it's a piss-poor undertaking anymore, this so-called rock criticism. These new ?writers? (the quotes are ours ? but they earned them!) just can't seem to put a sentence together or have an opinion worth spending a sentence on. You can blame it on whomever or whatever you want ? merged-out big-money publishing conglomerates, blockheaded editorial policy (not to mention blockheaded edito...   [ read more ]

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