Utne Magazine
March - April 2006
| American experimental guitarist Dominic Frasca must be part Shiva; only four hands could play that one guitar. But no, all the songs are performed in real time without loops or overdubs, some on instruments he created, like the 10-string combination electric and acoustic guitar. He plucks and pulls the strings and drums the bodies, creating an expansive minimalism influenced by Marc Mellits and Philip Glass, whose compositions levitate under Frasca's 20 fingers. Remember that wandering dream you had? You circled. Somehow you came to the end, in the clouds with the gods and goddesses. Frasca is the living sound track for that dream. -- Dan Wahl |