psychedelic guitar improvisation from two avant-guitar masters

Recorded at Artefax Studios in Lausanne, this album brings together two world class avant-guitar masters, Gary Lucas and the Swiss guitarist Gerald Zbinden, for a soundclash of epic proportions. The pair met in Saint Petersburg Russia at the 2004 SKIF Festival where they immediately bonded, and vowed to come together for an improvisatory studio session that would display the full panoply of their guitar styles in a voyage into uncharted sonic realms. The result is "Down the Rabbit Hole", a glorious panopticon of refractory post-modern guitar as viewed through the lens of Lucas and Zbinden's protean shape-shifting, kaleidoscopic music and 6-string sorcery. The pair conjure up images of blasted lunar landscapes, melting arctic icecaps, volcanic molten eruptions from the earth's core. Joining them on some tracks are the peripatetic polyrhythms of free-jazz drummer Marcel Papaux. Listen, you who dare...