Battle of Betwixt and Between is a solo electric guitar improvisation comprised of 5 parts: Call of Anxiety on Evening Debate; Times Up or Is It?; Ascend or Journey to Endill; Unscheduled Clarity in Flashes of Not; Exhilaration On Glimpse of Time
Guitar: John Bruce Wallace aka jacewbal
Copyright 2018 John Bruce Wallace
Album release date:
12 October 2018
His sizzling electric distortion...thick and saturated tone captures a kind of steel industrial sound, gently relating to the development of the urban situation, and technological society on which he comments, and to the worldly issues faced by modern development. Wallace's music comes out like a giant question with no apparent answer...tapping the human interior's post pro-harmonic feedback. LaDonna Smith, the improvisor, Birmingham, AL
[The] solo electric-guitar improvisations…[v]iolent yet lyrical, feature squeals, buzzes, squawks, and other Fripperies…non-overdubbed electric attack and decay...[H]is playing is a lot less predictable than that of many guitar warriors, and the best of it has a savage beauty that Eddie Van Halen couldn't achieve with six months of overdubs. Mark Jenkins, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER, Washington, DC
Solo guitarist John Bruce Wallace, in free improvisation, revamped the modern guitar tradition and, using the technical possibilities of his instrument, transferred it into an individual sound language. Bernd Jahnke (1992) Presentation Zeitgenoessischer Spielarten Improvisierter Musik Vilnius '91". Jazz Podium No. 1 1992, Stuttgart, Germany
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released November 19, 2018
John Bruce Wallace is a free jazz solo performer interested in freely improvised music with a focus on generating extended sound statements within the options afforded through solo performance. An acknowledged, accomplished guitar virtuoso working to create a new voice for the electric guitar, creating a new approach to the instrument, John Bruce Wallace is an incredibly challenging improviser, master of tonal dimension, expander of compositional style. Incorporating an aggressive, extremely individual wailing guitar sound that one has never heard before he invented a new technique of playing while continuously changing the pitch of his electric guitar. Utilizing sizzling electric distortion, thick and saturated tone, in free improvisation, he revamped the modern guitar tradition and, using the technical possibilities of his instrument, transferred it into an individual sound language tapping the human interior's post pro-harmonic feedback. The music is clearly developed, powerful, and expressive, takes advantage of strange techniques, weaving very diverse textures into incredible legendary sounds. He has extended the boundaries of improvisation and presentation, breaking new ground for younger and inquisitive musicians.
John Bruce Wallace aka jacewbalSilver Spring, Maryland
John Bruce Wallace is a composer, improvisational guitarist, painter, graphic artist, philosopher, recognized for
developing a new approach to electric guitar, the prime focus of his musical work is the expansion of the voicings of the electric guitar through improvised compositions.
His approach incorporates totally improvised sound expressions that capture the spirit of an innovative thought....more
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