Neil Alexander & Nail | Tugging at the Infinite
P-Dog Records
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Roll's Quick Pick 3
Tugging at the Infinite (P-Dog Records)—Proudly proclaiming that there is “no electric guitar on this record,” Neil Alexander strikes a blow for keyboardists everywhere, armed with a rack of synth modules and his trusty hand-held controller. With prodigious chops, chordal vocabulary and supple support from local jazz favorites Charlie Knicely, T Xiques, and Nadav Snir-Zelnicker, among others, Alexander’s instrumentals cover considerable ground between 70’s Jeff Beck, Bitches Brew-style jazz jam, and John Carpenter movie soundtracks. Plus the inevitable guitar-sound-on-a-keyboard thing
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