Pino Forastiere

Pino Forastiere: Circolare

by C. Michael Bailey
April 19, 2007

Circolare is no more jazz than Leo Kottke or the late Michael Hedges. But that is no matter. Pino Forastiere is a guitarist of expansive talent, both in composition and performance. He employs complex tuning paradigms and plays this a combination of plucking and fret-board hammering that reflects a synthesis of Kottke, Hedges, Eddie Van Halen and the army beyond who perfected the fret-board tapping technique of guitar playing (including Stanley Jordan). What sets Forastiere apart is that he accomplishes ...