Another instrumental "super" grouping (rock, metallic as well as novel age/jazz) - but this ane is different. ATTENTION DEFICIT is Michael MANRING (from Michael Hedges) on bass, Tim ALEXANDER (ex-PRIMUS) on drums, as well as Alex SKOLNICK (from Testament) on guitar. Each has brought with him the sense of working from dissimilar musical backgrounds. The grouping has actually flora a expert mix, with Michael's busy session bassist peculiarly for novel age, the thunderous drums of Tim injecting a jazzy purism into the mix, as well as the tandem with the fusion/heavy metallic guitar of Alex. They all jell together famously.
They guide keep issued a span of albums hence far - 1998's self-titled debut as well as 2001's "The Idiot King". Their kickoff album is HEAVY, FUNKY grooves as well as guitar melodies inwards the vein of Frank ZAPPA as well as BOZZIO LEVIN STEVENS, with unopen to fusion as well as piece of cake KING CRIMSON overtones. The minute album is a tasty hybrid of metallic as well as jazz, united inwards a prog stone realm. If instrumental fusion/jazz/metal is your thing, so you'll uncovering ATTENTION DEFICIT rather pleasing.
RECOMMENDED for fans of piece of cake KING CRIMSON, instrumental ZAPPA, LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT, as well as BOZZIO LEVIN STEVENS...!
"Call it mad scientist rock, or telephone telephone it but mad. Whatever it is, Attention Deficit guide keep entered the lab as well as blown it up, reaching correct into the atom heart woman nurture of improvisational mondo rock, combining their trinity of disparate elements, as well as letting novel sonic monsters uncovering life.
The grouping is an exotic amalgam of bass, guitar as well as drums, a necessary far-flung exploration that sprung naturally as well as spontaneously from the collective mindmeld of 3 various as well as divergent talents, guitarist Alex Skolnick, drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander, as well as bassist Michael Manring.
The joy of it all is to sentinel inventiveness guide keep flight, to quest heed what 3 instruments as well as 3 distinct musical histories tin conjure. And agreement the rich resumés of our 3 noisemakers goes a long agency toward deciphering the fresh kill that is Attention Deficit.
Mad axeman Alex Skolnick seems to guide keep 2 defined pasts. After experiencing the revelation that was Kiss inwards the piece of cake '70s, Alex pigeon fervently into that heady mix of thrash as well as ability metallic that became the Bay Area sound. Through 5 records as well as countless tours with Testament, Skolnick's bruising riffery an rust-proofed solos defined major label extreme metallic for years. After his departure, which included stints with Savatage as well as a solo configuration, Skolnick flora novel life equally a noted follower of jazz as well as fusion. The elevated hybrid that became his novel audio pose Alex inwards the seat of regular columnist for the likes of Guitar, Guitar Player as well as Guitar World. Clinics ensued, equally did gigs with Stu Hamm as well as futurity Attention Deficit partner inwards crime, Michael Manring, who nicked Skolnick for his solo tape Crimsonly entitled Thonk.
Mad bassist Michael Manring comes from a whole dissimilar schoolhouse of thought, having cutting his teeth equally the ultimate session man, a bass god for the similarly chops-endowed. Having studied at Boston's venerable Berklee School Of Music, as well as with bass monster Jaco Pastorius, Manring moved forrad to perform on all but ane of the piece of cake Michael Hedges' vii solo records. His adjacent stint was equally solid bassist for Windham Hill Records, spawning numerous solo projects as well as nevertheless to a greater extent than session work; his appearances on other people's projects number good over ane hundred. Gold records, Grammies, Bammies, Bass Player's Bassist Of The Year inwards 1994 . . . Manring is without a doubtfulness ane of his instrument's elite.
Mad percussion fiend Tim Alexander represents nevertheless unopen to other dependent champaign stream, having thrilled as well as chilled equally the human being pounding out Primus, choice rock's around chops-insane ambassadors. Alexander's recorded legacy is highly appreciated, his geometric rhythms existence a regular theme of give-and-take with drum magazines, mayhap his greatest acclaim existence named equally ane of the "most influential drummers of all-time" past times Drum magazine. Having spent 8 years driving Primus, Alexander is immediately Pb vocalist/drummer for San Francisco human activity Laundry and, similar Alex Skolnick, had linked upward with Michael Manring for the bassist's solo record, Thonk, thereby completing the trinity that is immediately playfully but tellingly deemed Attention Deficit.
The bottom business is this: 3 truthful artisans guide keep gotten together for a flake of high science, fifty-fifty if the jump-off signal is built of raw intuition. What they've come upward up with offers immediate as well as powerful gratification to students of instrumental performance, as well as non so quick, but ultimately similar gratification to those who exactly dearest visceral, challenging music. We strongly propose y'all pay attention. The rewards are real.
Tracklist
1 ATM 2:55
2 An Exchange Of Niceties 2:33
3 Scapula 5:13
4 Snip 0:22
5 It's Over, Johnny 3:31
6 TMA 2:02
7 Fly Pelican, Fly 11:55
8 Febrile 2:52
9 MAT 3:18
10 Wrong 0:47
11 The Girl From Enchilada 2:35
12 Merton Hanks 3:21
13 Ill Flated Conspiracy 3:07
14 The Blood Room 3:20
15 Festivus 0:10
16 Khamsin 1:39
17 Lydia 3:43
18 Say Hello To My Little Friend 3:01
Personnel:
Alex Skolnick: electrical as well as acoustic guitars
Tim Alexander: drums as well as percussion
Michael Manring: four, half dozen as well as 10 string basses, loops.
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