![]() ![]() Wading neck-deep in the alternative universe of the historic 20-CD boxed set from Germany’s Bear Family Records, At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight, is like time travel where you’re magically transported back to the 1950s in the Deep South listening to the radio and thrilling to the live performances. He wrote, arranged and produced all nine stunning tracks which ends with the CD’s masterpiece highlight, “Partial Darkness,” an almost scary 12:02 descent into cinematic complexity. Hristo, besides soloing madly, wildly, provides rhythmic punch when his mates take to the foreground. ![]() There’s no corner that this music doesn’t explore, no crevice too small for the notes to hide in. The 11:34 “Pentachromatic Butterflies” rambles on with pianist Weber Iago, bassist Dan Robbins and drummer Mike Shannon, equal parts of guitarist Hristo’s ever-challenging electricity. It’s an undeniable, impossible-to-categorize pastiche of fused elements that dazzles, sometimes confounds, but ultimately satisfies those with adventurous ears. This Bulgarian-born, San Francisco-raised guitarist-composer, 37, is already on his 14th CD, a star of international proportions whose music has been written about in China as well as the States. The jazz of the Hristo Vitchev Quartet is Of Light and Shadows (First Orbit Sounds Music). ![]()
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