Bman's Blues Report

Like so many guitarists of his generation, Pat Boyack traced his initial fascination with the blues back to his early admiration of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Born June 26, 1967 in Helper, Utah, Boyack's tastes as a teen originally ran more along the lines of Van Halen and Kiss, but soon he became so immersed in the contemporary Texas blues sound that he eventually relocated to Dallas to pursue a musical career of his own. In 1993, he relocated to the Phoenix area, where he formed the bar band Rocket 88s with vocalist/harpist Jimmy Morello; after the group dissolved, Boyack returned to Dallas, where he eventually formed the blues-rock unit the Prowlers with bassist John Garza and drummer Doug Swancy. After issuing their debut effort Armed and Dangerous in 1993, the Prowlers welcomed Morello into their ranks, and Breakin' In followed in late 1994. After 1996's On the Prowl, the band fell apart, and Boyack assembled a new supporting cast for his 1997 solo debut, Super Blue and Funky...

You never know what's going to come across my desk. Today it is an experimental journey into music the likes of which I have never heard. The musicians are Steve Kusaba (Vocals, Guitar and Bass), Ed Goldfarb (Piano)and Jason Meilke (Drums)with additional musicians the least of which is not Emilie Jensen who adds some well executed vocal textures. I have been exposed to a lot of different types of music but with this I really don't know where to begin. Seconds From The Clock is an eleven track excerpt from a larger 47 hour composition called Centrifugal Satz Clock. The composer, Steve Kusaba, a largely self taught musician though obviously a voracious listener studied under a lot of musical people at Weber State and the University of Utah. The extremely expansive endeavor ventures into classical Renaissance through 20th century serial music, pop, rock, jazz... broadway all whipped together in a frappe of textures and melodies. The composition brings to mind moments in Frank Zapp...