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7/17/2011

Chris Forsyth + The Paranoid Cat Band - Live on WFMU's The Long Rally with Scott McDowell 3/18/11 (2011)



/Psychedelia, Drone rock, Improvised music, Avant-rock, Rockabilly, Crossover, Trance rock, Experimental rock/


Comment: This is a set of 3 improvised, long-running jam units by Chris Forsyth and 4 of his fellow musicians. Altogether, you can call it just trance rock, for instance. The first, 20-minutes notch involves the similarities with Spaceman 3, and Spiritualized through artistic guitar playing (relied on elusive arpeggios and repetitions and such kind of "dry" chord progressions reminiscent of the string magic by John Fahey) accompanied by Don Bruno`s incessant phase changes of organ`s droning. The second track might be considered as a modified, more experiment-appealed version of Blur`s Tender. The third notch mixes up sheer psychedelia with free form rock and distinctive undercurrents of rockabilly. Indeed, the whole seems to be rational that is the reason of why it is impressively accomplished.