For those unaware, Colorado-based guitar conceptualist Charles Brown has just released his brand new album, A New Awakening.

With each track coming together to provide us all a veritable masterpiece of progressive instrumentals, ones that lovingly borrows from blues, rock, prog and even, at times, heavy metal, the guitarist’s guitarist has released over a dozen solo albums of pure instrumental rock thus far, and this new one, A New Awakening, might just well be his best yet.

1. The Darkest Winter
2. A New Awakening
3. Dance of The Sun
4. Rock Solid
5. Sea of Myst
6. Edge of Time
7. Waterdance
8. Rain of Sorrows
9. What the Funk
10. Walking the Edge
11. Touch the Sunrise

This dutifully-performed, expertly-sculpted new prog-rock recording opens on the thunderously prog-licious The Darkest Winter and the lighter, Renaissance-tinged fare of the titular A New Awakening, and then brings us the melodically-rhythmic, yet combined with artistic shredded guitar work Dance of The Sun, the guitar rock monster Rock Solid, and then we are brought the beautifully ornate Sea of Myst.

This most wondrous new album continues onward with the atmospherically-charged, turbo prog of Edge of Time and the rhythmical, percussion-hued Waterdance, and then we get some magnificent, head-on guitar work within the blistering Rain of Sorrows, the aptly-named What the Funk, the recording rounding out on the veritably shimmering guitar fest that is Walking the Edge, coming to a close on the elegantly embroidered Touch the Sunrise.

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