Guitarist Chris Forsyth's hypnotic compositions assimilate minimalism and psychedelia with art rock, folk, and blues influences.  He has toured throughout Europe and the US, sharing stages with such like-minded artists as Steve Gunn, Bill Orcutt, Ignatz, and Träd Gräs och Stenar, and, from 2002 to 2011, as a member of Peeesseye. He also plays in the elusive experimental project Phantom Limb & Bison and has collaborated with Meg Baird, Tetuzi Akiyama, Mike Pride, Nate Wooley, Shawn Edward Hansen, and choreographers Miguel Gutierrez and RoseAnne Spradlin, among others. His Paranoid Cat LP was released in March 2011 on Family Vineyard and has been described as "the work of an emergent master" (Uncut) and "a rapturous transmutation of noise into light" (Wire). In December 2011, Family Vineyard re-issued his Dreams LP (originally released in 2009 as an edition of 100 on his own Evolving Ear label) and in January 2012 Blackest Rainbow released Early Astral an LP collaboration with Koen Holtkamp of Mountains. Forsyth is a recipient of a 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts and lives in the City of Philadelphia, USA. Download hi res photos here and here. Photo credit: Maria Dumlao

"It's enough to signal Forsyth's arrival as an erudite and farsighted guitar stylist, mapping a path that's hip and scholarly in equal measure." - Daniel Spicer, The Wire Magazine

"A destructible charm teetering on violence and elegance" - Eric Weddle, Signal to Noise Magazine

"...a style as mesmerizing and transcendent as any of his forebears." - Bob Bannister, TimeOutNY