White Rainbow

***After years of outer space exploration in YUME BITSU and SURFACE OF ECEYON, as well as stints as a hired gun for a multitude of artists including DIRTY PROJECTORS, JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER and DEVENDRA BANHART, ADAM FORKNER decided to turn his focus inward and began to record solo material. And focus he did, working at a dizzying pace that culminated in the production of the 5CD/1DVD White Rainbow Box (2006 Marriage Records). The remarkable thing about that album was not that it was 4.5 hours long, but that the overwhelming majority of it was of extraordinary quality and not mere filler. With the release of Eternal Now, WHITE RAINBOW has surpassed typical solo project territory and is now a virtual elemental force. At a somewhat brief 71 minutes, his Kranky debut pulses and flows with mantric chants, clattering percussions, sighing sustains and guitar leads unashamed of their scorching transcendence. He breathes new life into archaic sub-genres such as prog rock, new age, and hippie folk incantations, while never stooping to the negative aspects of any of them, and at the same time remaining a step ahead of the technologically crippled and virtuosuo-less looper pedal scene. Prism of Eternal Now leaves behind the bounds of gravity for a free floating meditational headtrip of inner space exploration.