Steve Kimock - Last Danger of Frost (2016/2019) [Hi-Res]

Steve Kimock breaks new ground with his latest solo effort, Last Danger of Frost. Recorded in Kimock's century-old Pennsylvania barn last winter before a move back to California, Last Danger of Frost offers a daring personal expression that introduces innovative techniques the guitarist discovered in a solo setting. Kimock dismantles the rock band framework and takes a full stretch to create exploratory sounds and intimate compositions that may have been waiting to be revealed or rediscovered the whole time.

Last Danger of Frost is a remarkable coming-together of intimacy and innovation. Steve Kimock has played what is generally thought of as psychedelic rock n roll guitar for many moons, but this is a fascinating new development in his ouevre. This music is largely acoustic, with touches of electronica and ambient sound; it s contemplative, elegant, and beautiful. Totally solo, it builds on the primal elements of his first experiences with a guitar. Even before he could tune or play it, long before he could create music, he found that he could amuse himself and incidentally create sounds by sliding the bridge around. Frost brings together high technology and sound manipulation, what he describes as the appropriately mournful modal counterclockwise trip into the subdominant, bird calls created by feedback, and the simplest patterns. This is a deep journey into the mind of a gifted master seeking to create music, as he says, from sources like family, nature, travel, quiet study and contemplation and imagination. You can actually hear the creative mind at work here.