Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker has a solo guitar album entitled Forfolks out a couple of weeks before Christmas, it's been announced.
Making the cut are: Thelonious Monk’s 'Ugly Beauty', from Underground, reputed to be the only piece Monk wrote in a 3/4 time signature; the standard 'My Ideal' first recorded by Maurice Chevalier in 1930 and covered by the likes of Chet Baker and Tony Bennett down the years; and half a dozen Parker originals including his mid-1990s-composed 'Four Folks', Isotope 217 tune 'La Jetée' also recorded with Tortoise in the 90s with the new pieces ''loop-driven, stratiform works'' according to Nonesuch who are issuing the release in a partnership with the International Anthem label. Recorded at Jeff's home Sholo Studio in Altadena, California in June 'Suffolk' with its Morse Code-like sense of mysterious urgency in the chatter of overdubs is streaming.
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