Combining jaw-dropping technique with a fertile imagination and a playful sense of humor, Alex Machacek, the Austrian six-string phenom has concocted an audaciously brilliant manifesto on "[sic]." Imagine a composite of Allan Holdsworth's stunning legato chops and advanced harmonic language with Mike Keneally's exacting virtuosity and Frank Zappa's fiercely uncompromising difficult music and you're getting close to where this visionary new talent is currently operating. He is perhaps the only guitarist on the planet who could cut the impossible charts of Zappa's "Jazz From Hell" and simultaneously breathe life into them. Also featuring drummer extraordinaire, Terry Bozzio, "[sic]" represents an auspicious outing for this formidable new presence on the guitar scene.