Tim Brady is a solo guitarist who concerns himself with the relationship of the performer and technology. The results of his investigation are found, in part, on Strange Attractors, Brady's seventh full-length release. The first thing you notice on Strange Attractors is that Brady is clearly an accomplished guitarist. He'd be quite capable of making an excellent "orthodox" album, in the contemporary jazz genre for example. Instead he "deconstructs/reconsructs" his music using various technology-related processes. Several of the pieces on Strange Attractors involve the massive layering of multiple guitar tracks. In the case of "Linear Projection in a Jump Cut World," twenty-two electric, acoustic and bass guitars are combined to produce a fragmented yet still remarkably coherent collage of jazz-inflected licks. "Memory Riot" combines nineteen electric guitars with an electronic tape accompaniment and a digital delay to create a fiery minimalistic anthem. "Difference Engine #1, #2, #3" is the most remarkable piece on the disc -- ironically, precisely for its lack of technology. It is a work for solo guitar with no electronics, but with strings retuned to C-A-D-G#-B-D#. The resulting music is bold and forward-looking, and makes a refreshing alternative to the dense layers found elsewhere on the CD. Both of my thumbs are up -- way up! -- for Tim Brady's Strange Attractors.
Tim Brady Strange Attractors Justin Time Records CD
			Review by Noah Wane

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