Chas Smith Three Smith - Cb0061 - Contemporary - by Cold Blue

Three dark and powerful soundscapes from composer-performer-instrument builder Chas Smith, a musician who has created his own unique musical world—complete with its own instruments and “language”—a world of expansive musical tapestries and carefully sculpted textures that develop via a slow, constant change of aural perspective. This is music that seamlessly blends Smith’s metal sound sculptures (instruments with such names as Que Lastas, Bertoia, Lockheed, Towers, Sceptre, Parabaloid) and his homemade and hot-rodded steel guitars (Guitarzilla, Jr. Blue, bass steel), all of which are performed by the composer. Composed in 2020–21, each work on the album is an ever-evolving single gesture, a seamless blend of tones and timbres from his exotic and unique instruments. [CD in 6-panel wallet]