Toronto’s Colin Fisher is a name that appeared on so many records for other artists, from Caribou to Junior Boys, but has over the last decade come up with a series of solo projects that cover not so easy to classify musical ground.
That wide musical range is certainly suited to his wide multi-instrumental skills, where his guitar playing and the loops he often creates in his live performances dominate.
The heavily treated guitar improvisations are at the center of Fisher’s latest album, Suns of the Heart, but the six pieces presented here combine those guitar improvisations with other musical elements (all instruments played by Fisher) to present music that has both sense and structure, albeit as free-flowing and meandering as Fisher felt at the moment of recording them.
The only assistance he had here came from producer and Halocine Trance label owner David Psutka, who produced this album but also assisted Fisher in re-arranging the musical elements of pieces themselves.
The sounds range from calming to harrowing (‘Luminous Light’, for example) but never lose their musical sense and purpose, making Suns of the Heart one of the more intriguing instrumental albums of this summer.
