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Chris Brooks: The Master Plan

Band/Artist:
Chris Brooks
Title:
The Master Plan
Release Date:
2002
Label:
Independent Release

All songs written, arranged and performed by
Chris Brooks

The Master Plan

This instrumental album by Australian guitar whiz Chris Brooks, is sure to please fans of the 80's guitar heroes, but who like a more modern, even mix with other instruments. Chris has a very detailed bio available online at www.chrisbrooks.net so I won't go into further details here. Suffice it to say, this album is the result of a very detailed, laborious journey, and the great care he has taken  compositionally and in the performance of every instrument is clear from the first few bars of the Dream Theater tinged opener "Kryptica". Yes folks, he does play every single note on this album, and it's all very skillfully laid down. One of the things that I really liked about this album is the fact that, while Brooks is definitely a shredder, he is more careful than most in his selection of notes. Most of his solos are constructed around pleasant and interesting melodies buried beneath the usual trillion notes a second style of embellishment favored by these guitar mutants, and he seldom loses track of the original themes (exceptions to this occur during half of the solo to "Crack the Hourglass", but it's really nowhere near as strident as in the work of other, much better known guitar demons, and besides, fans of the Vai's and Satriani's of this world have grown used to solos that take all sorts of liberties against the basic human thirst for simple melody, so they'll have nothing but pure ear candy with this one).

All in all, this album came as a pleasant surprise to me, and I would like
to wish Chris Brooks continued success in all of his future
projects. Check it out!

Reviewer: Luis Nasser

Review Date: 6/28/02
Rating: 7.5 out of 10

Visit the artist website
Chris Brooks

You can purchase the new Chris Brooks album "The Master Plan".
Official Site http://chrisbrooks.net
Guitar Nine Records http://guitar9.com/themasterplan
Chaos Music http://chaosmusic.com

 Discography:
The Master Plan 2002


 

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