Cuneiform Rec.
Forever Einstein : Racket Science (US,2005)****
For this new 5th album of Forever Einstein, they have a new, mostly carefully contributing/interacting bassplayer Kevin Gerety, who stays a bit in the background, mostly backing the electric guitar of Charles O’Meara (Vrtacek) which leads very much the compositions, with drums by John Roulat. The music is very much a kind of fluent instrumental rock with very clear and pleasant melody evolution. The music is never difficult. The inspiration goes from early 20th century classical music composition over jazz and blues improvisation, over some surf twist element, always with the one (melody) line of the electric guitar, with relaxed and pleasant compositions, with their essence into tunes. Still different electric guitars are used now and then for extra or different accents, like fuzz-guitar or even an electric sitar on a few tracks, with a flavour of rock'n roll exotica. I also like to mention the great use of howling dogs on track 10.
