Chris Forsyth and Koen Holtkamp - The Island

The Island by Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp have travelled similar paths in their respective careers, each earning reputations as fierce, creative artists and respected masters of their instruments (guitar & synthesizers, respectively). They first came together for “Early Astral” in 2012 (released in the UK by Blackest Rainbow), and that album’s two side-long tracks showed Forsyth & Holtkamp upping their game in new & exciting ways. Neither are strangers to collaborative work (Holtkamp with Mountains and Forsyth with Peeesseye and his Solar Motel Band), and something clicked between them. Forsyth stretched his guitar’s sounds into simultaneously weirder & more Kosmische psychedelic directions, while Holtkamp seemed to loosen up a bit, shrugging off the stately minimalism he’s primarily known for. “The Island” is the second collaborative album from these Philadelphia and Brooklyn-based musicians and unlike “Early Astral,” which was