English singer-songwriter and guitar
virtuoso Max Dolan has released his latest EP, “Distant Horizons,”
on the Isis Music Group label. The record includes five original
tracks over approximately 18 minutes of playing time. It is one of
the most definitive examples of Dolan's music since “Lilac
Moonrise,” published earlier this year.
Consistent with the rest of Dolan's
catalog to date, The overtones of “Distant Horizons” are aeriform
and cosmic. The general feel is reminiscent of what the year 2000
came to call “Brit pop” in the United States, which categorized
bands such as The Verve, Pulp, and The London Suede. These bands used
powerful guitar techniques that concentrated on a song's mood, rather
than the showy, look-what-I-can-do soloing popularized by heavy
metal, and this principle is omnipresent in Dolan's “Distant
Horizons.”
“...Horizons” is also characterized
by jazzy percussion that never slips into a basic one-two beat or
becomes predictable in the background. These drums are the result of
Dolan's collaboration with Kofi Baker (son of Cream drummer, Ginger
Baker). Herein is added a strong classic rock element to the record,
which plays upon the work of progressive rock bands such as Pink
Floyd, Yes, and others. This is not to say that the EP is easy to pin
down with a genre – it is not. The music is Dolan's own, together
with Baker, and to imagine that it might sound derivative would be a
grave oversight.
Dolan was born in 1985 in Jersey,
United Kingdom. He is known for a flashy stage performance that is
the result of much obvious skill and time spent honing his inherent
talent. This can include such classic stage magics as playing behind
his head or with his teeth, such performance flair being more than
somewhat rare to the modern stage today. He began his professional
career as a session musician for the Jimi Hendrix Experience on the
“Experience Sessions” album. His famous arctic-white, Gibson SG
Special Limited guitar he has dubbed, “Penelope, the Gypsy
princess.”
When
asked about the themes of his music, Dolan says only, “What I try
and do with my music is to take people somewhere beautiful, in their
hearts and in their minds. There isn't a 'message' to it, as such.”
“Distant
Horizons” by Max Dolan is available worldwide beginning March 15,
2013.
-S. McCauley
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
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