“THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO ON A SYNTH IS SOUND LIKE A NAMM [TRADESHOW],” KINSEY SAYS. “YOU DON’T WANT TO SOUND LIKE YOU’RE CALLING UP A PATCH EVERY THREE SECONDS. YOU HAVE TO DEVELOP A COUPLE THAT ARE YOUR VOICE.”
When keyboardist Jason Lindner recalls some of his more memorable synth solos, the first to come to mind is a tempestuous passage on the Donny McCaslin track “Faceplant,” off the saxophonist’s newly released Beyond Now. Right on the heels of a blistering McCaslin sax solo, Lindner pushes his Dave Smith Instruments’ Prophet-6 to conjure a swirling sound which has more impact than the notes themselves. “It builds tension in a certain way, and it’s just really strange and almost eerily emotive but somehow maintains some musical logic,” Lindner says. “It…
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JazzTimes (Digital) - 1 Issue, January - February 2017