While
Allan Holdsworth's solo recording career took a couple of albums to
get off the ground, there is no such thing as a bad Allan Holdsworth
album, and Wardenclyffe Tower continues the guitar great's
streak of top-flight, progressive jazz/rock/new age fusion releases.
Named
after the experimental wi-fi station built by science genius Nikola
Tesla on Long Island in the first decade of the 20th
century, the disc lives up to that storied facility's spirit of
technological innovation and enterprise.
The
music is, as usual, slick and high-tech, with Holdsworth's guitar and
SynthAxe and his band's bass, drums, and keyboards coalescing into a
dynamic blend of scintillating sonic radiance and brilliance.
Holdsworth's trademark sense of humor is on display as well, with the
first tune punctuated by a hilarious, self-deprecating skit.
You
could never go wrong with an Allan Holdsworth album, especially one
with a bit of a history lesson, to boot.
--Raj
Manoharan
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