prog rock/veteran jam band Umphrey's McGee (keyboardist Joel Cummins,
guitarist Jake Cinninger and drummer Kris Myers), and OHM guitarist
(former Megadeth guitarist), Chris Poland and bassist Robertino
Pagliari (a.k.a. "Pag").
OHMphrey's latest effort, the unforgettable, and soon-to-be-classic,
Posthaste, finds these five extraordinary artists creating
instrumental music with a unified voice – once again. The album's
seven original instrumental compositions, and two bonus live tracks
("Firestarter" and "20/20") recorded at Winston's in San Diego in
2009, never meander. Simply put, Posthaste contains some of the most
thought-provoking, elastic and heavy jam band music this side of A
Live One, Space Wrangler, and Under the Table and Dreaming.
Tracks such as "The River Runs", "Tom Bombadil" (named after a
character in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings fantasy trilogy),
"The Sun also Rises", and "The Devil's in the Details" are as
distinctive and enthralling as their titles might suggest. Each track
has its own identity and the music never lets up. Even upon repeat
listens, Posthaste continues to inspire, surprise and even shock.
Dig the joyous and playful staccato rhythms, Cummins' Wakeman-esque
lead synth lines and Myers' ability to play with time during a drum
solo in "Ramona's Car Wash." Rifle through your memories as you listen
to the intriguing arpeggios opening "The Shoemaker's Back" (as if
these riffs have been encoded with subliminal information). Free your
mind (and your butt) to the totally chilled out trace/dance feel of
"Reggaelic" (which fades with a glorious guitar solo).
"Composing these songs was something we all did together," says
Cummins. "One of the best analogies I can give is 'Simon Says for
Musicians', where we're trying to organize these musical ideas in the
moment."
"Everybody contributed to these songs," says six-string fretless
bassist Robertino Pagliari, or Pag. "Once an idea popped out, it was
like, 'Oh, I have a melody…' Or, 'Oh, I have a rhythm part that works
with that …' These ideas just molded together, as if we had been
working together forever, you know?"
"We all have this kind of synchronicity," says Poland. "It's kind of
an overused word, but we have it. Whatever we're doing, it works."
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