Scale the Summit – Carving Desert Canyons
Posted on February 17, 2009 at 8:00 am by admin
What we’ve got here is a good old, fun and progressive instrumental jam. If you’ve been lucky enough to jam on a few guitar riffs that you could really feel, and you remembered so well with your buddies, “Carving Desert Canyons” could be an extension of that. After all, you know what can happen with friends who have a similar skill level in playing that can do runs pretty easy can come up with, which is likely lots of moments in a jam room asking chums to try one crazy trick after another that someone came up with right on the top of their head. The only problem is of course pulling those jammed out riffs into songs that lead somewhere, fortunately “Carving Desert Canyons” has songs that definitely start, have a middle and end. In fact the songs are long enough to have multiple middles, thus creating their own little sub-stories that begin and complete themselves within a song.
The main problems with progressive anything tend to be choppy, start-and-stop songs, needless over-thought strange time signatures and useless skill showcases, none of which are present here. Instead the songs flow along, slowly speeding up or slowing own at their own pace, and while you can tell the players in Scale the Summit are skilled, they play at a comfortable level, and are willing to ride a simple riff because it’s catchy, and you can feel that they enjoy it.
Released February 17th, 2009
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