For those not in the know, forty years ago this year, the prolific Montréal composer and guitarist Tim Brady released his first solo guitar recording dR.E.aM.s on Apparition Records, the now-defunct label of fellow Canadian genre-buster Patrick Godfrey.

Critics in North America and Europe were quick to remark Brady’s ability to fuse sounds and approaches pulled from multiple genres, while praising his nimble-fingered playing.

It’s therefore fitting that Brady’s forthcoming double solo CD release For Electric Guitar, his first proper solo album since 2012’s 24 Frames.

Released via People Places Records, another Toronto imprint headed by a pluralistic composer-performer, Andrew Noseworthy, Brady remains as committed as ever to crossing musical boundaries and pushing the solo electric guitar repertoire in new directions.

1. For Electric Guitar: Section 1 [10:31]
2. For Electric Guitar: Section 2 [07:11]
3. For Electric Guitar: Section 3 [07:06]
4. Really, Really Solo Electric Guitar Music [15:10]
5. 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 1 [03:33]
6. 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 2 [06:38]
7. 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 2.5 [02:10]
8. 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 3 [03:06]
9. 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 4 [03:14]
10. 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 5 [03:05]
11. 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 5.25 [00:33]
12. 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 6 (waltz) [03:27]
13. 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 7 [04:23]
14. 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 8 [06:28]
15. 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 9 [06:04]

With the electric guitar being an instrument that’s heard across a myriad genres, and both Brady’s playing and writing reflecting its expansive legacy through both reference and inflection, he opens up his new album on the languishing one moment, frenzied yet controlled ten minute opus For Electric Guitar: Section 1, the sonically dulcet For Electric Guitar: Section 2 and the game day preciseness of For Electric Guitar: Section 3, before we are gifted the rhythmically sculpted, fifteen minute Really, Really Solo Electric Guitar Music.

Up next is the veritably crystalline 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 1, the stoically-charged 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 2, the emotive 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 2.5 and the affectional 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 3, before we are brought forth the industrially breathed 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 4, a melodiously crafted 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 5, the short, but sweet 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 5.25, the set rounding out on the wholly moving 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 6 (waltz), the affecting beauty of 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 7, the elegantly glistening 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 8, closing on the cinematically hued grandeur of 9.75 Pieces About Change: no. 9.

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