Guitar Interactive – Issue 66 2019

(^16) Guitar Interactive Issue 66
Over the past few years, the success
that Townsend has slowly worked for
has, fortunately, come with the power
to control his own creative destiny. The
recent successes with the DVD from a
sold-out Royal Albert hall, or his 2012
‘Retinal Circus’, or last year’s ‘Ocean
Machine’ live DVD with the Orchestra
and Choir of State Opera Plovdiv has put
him in a position where with the new
album ‘Empath’, he is once and for all a
musical force outside of any particular
genre classification.
On this album, Devin has decided to
see what would happen if all the styles
that make up his current interests were
finally represented in one place. To finally
shake the fear of expectation, and just do
what it is he was meant to do creatively,
‘Empath’, true to the name, is about
allowing the audience a feeling for a
variety of musical emotions. The musical
dynamics represented on this single album
are broad, challenging, and immense.
To approach this sort of work with a
long history of what makes heavy music
‘heavy’, allows this to be done with a type
of power rarely heard.
Joining Devin on this album is Frank
Zappa alumni Mike Keneally as music
director, as well as Morgan Ågren (Mats
And Morgan, Frank Zappa, Fredrik
Thordendal), Anup Sastry (Monuments,
Periphery), Samus Paulicelli (Decrepit »
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