Over his lengthy career guitarist Alan Licht has covered lots of disparate terrain, whether playing naif indie rock in Love Child or creating works of conceptual sound art as he did on his 2003 album A New York Minute (XI). He’s an inveterate explorer with a deep historical sensibility, and he also writes about music with impressive clarity and unfussy analysis, but he’s never allowed his knowledge and respect for the past to confine his own work.…
Over his lengthy career guitarist Alan Licht has covered lots of disparate terrain, whether playing naif indie rock in Love Child or creating works of conceptual sound art as he did on his 2003 album A New York Minute (XI). He’s an inveterate explorer with a deep historical sensibility, and he also writes about music with impressive clarity and unfussy analysis, but he’s never allowed his knowledge and respect for the past to confine his own work.…