- Description
Jeff Parkers solo guitar album Forfolks includes interpretations of Thelonious Monk's "Ugly Beauty" and the standard "My Ideal," plus six original compositions: two earlier tunes, "Four Folks" and "La Jete," and four new loop-driven, stratiform works that marry melodic improvisation with electronic textures. "He eschews genre playing and chooses a painterly approach to coloring the music," longtime collaborator Matthew Lux writes in the liner note, "maintaining a deeply personal voice without weighing down the music with obvious stylistic maneuverings."
Jeff Parkers solo guitar album Forfolks includes interpretations of Thelonious Monk's "Ugly Beauty" and the standard "My Ideal," plus six original compositions: two earlier tunes, "Four Folks" and "La Jete," and four new loop-driven, stratiform works that marry melodic improvisation with electronic textures. "He eschews genre playing and chooses a painterly approach to coloring the music," longtime collaborator Matthew Lux writes in the liner note, "maintaining a deeply personal voice without weighing down the music with obvious stylistic maneuverings."