Evan Hause - Plastic Island Pentecost (2018)

Evan Hause is an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist who traverses and fuses experimental classical and rock music. His music has been called "spectacularly audacious" and "ingenious" [Gramophone], "from the sublime and elegant to bawdy and vulgar" [American Record Guide], "delightful and clever" [Records International], "astounding" [The Denver Post], "compelling" [The New York Times], and "fresh and dramatic" [Opera News]. "Modern rock of the highest order, co-mingling influences too numerous to count...epic guitar licks and stellar musicianship." -Dave Mandl [World of Echo, WFMU-New Jersey] "a perfect fusion of pop and classical, requiring both exquisite precision and arena rock levels of passion" [I Care If You Listen]

In "Plastic Island Pentecost," his fourth and most ambitious prog rock solo album to date, he has created a journey by turns raucous, melancholy, and beautiful that conjures up mountains, shipwrecks, ritual dances, temples, and flying shamans. But this is no mood music - these are detailed musical excursions, replete with skilled guitar playing ("dude plays a mean guitar" - Dave Cantrell, Stereo Embers Magazine), a heavy dose of Mellotron and other classic keyboards, some stupendous guest musicians, and creative drumming.