Chrome Forest, by Chrome Jackson

Chrome Forest

by Chrome Jackson

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eoderma “Sickle” has got to be one of the greatest wall of guitar songs I’ve ever climbed. What a journey this album is. . ! Favorite track: Sickle.

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Final 33 copies of this 2011 release, with newly screen-printed covers by Phil Ross (5nakefork Records). Each copy has an edition number screen-printed on the back cover. Original artwork by Paul Lyons. Get them while they last!

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1.	Glass Fight 12:37	buy track
2.	Nail Storm 01:48	buy track
3.	Shit Show 07:56	buy track
4.	Sickle 04:31	buy track
5.	Chrome Forest 05:59	buy track
6.	Roly Poly 03:39	buy track
7.	The Foam People Meet The Chrome People 14:28	buy track

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Review from TIny Mix Tapes by Grant "Gum Shoe" Purdum:

They said that when Keith Moon made a solo record in the 1970s, he decided to make a straight-up rock album with a full band instead of a project strictly for percussionists, which would have suited his skills better. I’m not sure about all that, but I have noticed a lot of GUITAR-ONLY LPs coming out of all shapes and sizes. You got yer Mick Barr/Crom-Tech/Ocrilim, yer Six Organs Of Admittance/James Blackshaw, yer Plante… all three put out six-string-salute albums without accompaniment, and all three manage to make the format stick.

Chrome Jackson, nee Stephen Mattos of Arab On Radar (not to mention Athletic Automation, The Chinese Stars, Doomsday Student), takes the Han Solo route too. No bass. No drums. No singer (in fact, fuck singers). Just a man and his plan, squaring off against those who would find his aims gratuitous. Luckily, via his founding membership of AOR, Mattos has already been in a band people hate, so since then, he’s been free to go where he wants to go and do what he wants to do. In my eyes, he’s been successful in all his projects since Arab On Radar folded, and thus it’s not surprising I view Chrome Forest, under the nom de plume Chrome Jackson, as another positive step for a musician who obviously has more to say — without actually saying anything — than any of us realized.

It’s a rough ride, should you choose to take it; some of you will not be making it back. It’s as if Mattos has sun-baked the hypnotic pedal abuse of Mincemeat Or Tenspeed into the huge metal apparatus of Barr’s solo-guitar work, the whole concoction vaulting way over the top as repetition turns to repetition turns to repetition turns to repetition. Before you know it, Chrome Forest has you by the curly Qs. It cools you off with a blast of ice-cool steam every now and again, but for the most part, the guitar loops spiral around in the air like helicopter seeds (which one can find under sycamore leaves, if you must know) as the ear tries to catch them, never quite bringing them under control. The loops pile on and back off, echo and drift, linger and lilt. The patterns are so rigid your ears will perk up like candy-cane smiles when you hear the second and third layers form a hardened crust around your ugly head.

As with the family Mississippi leg hound, it’s best to just let Mattos finish. Trust me, he’s going somewhere with this.

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released November 1, 2011

Mastering : Dan Greenwood
Artwork: Paul Lyons
Insert Photo: Keith Souza
Printing: PLR IV

Recorded and mixed by Stephen Mattos in Providence, RI, 2008-2010, except "The Foam People Meet The Chrome People", recorded at BSR Radio 88.1 WELH, Brown University, Providence, RI, 4/23/2009.

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Chrome Jackson Providence, Rhode Island

Chrome Jackson is Stephen Mattos, guitarist and co-founder of THERE, Doomsday Student, Arab on Radar and Athletic Automaton.

Instrumental soundscapes/noisescapes. Tangles, webs and layers of sound.

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