Music Critics' Comments
"Wallace is one of those rare exceptions" (Charles S. Russell, EAR MAGAZINE, New York, NY). " n aggressive, wailing guitar sound—astonishing and extremely individual" (Grigory Valov, TIF, Arkhangel'sk, Russia). "Wallace interprets the improvised pieces with many harmonics, with inconsistent rhythms over fractured changes" (Philippe Renaud, NOTES, Nantes, France). "Sinuous solo guitar improvisations...rippling, resonant sound" (Mark Jenkins, Washington City Paper, Washington, DC). "He invented a new technique of playing while continuously changing the pitch of his electric guitar" (Svetlana Korel'skaya, ARKHANGEL'SK, Arkhangel'sk, Russia). He deals with free improvisation within the modern guitar tradition exploring the technical possibilities of the instrument in an individually embossed tonal language (Bernd Jahnke, Jazz Podium No. 1 1992). " strange techniques and shows a definite John Cage, Fred Frith influence... great for people who like Petr Eben, Stravinsky, and maybe even Hutchenson" (Teo Graca, The Insider No. 13, Washington, DC). "Wallace can very obviously play...engthy meditations, often very spiked and twisted...often wild and unpredictable" (Ken Egbert, Option, Santa Monica, CA). " solo electric-guitar improvisations…iolent yet lyrical, feature squeals, buzzes, squawks, and other Fripperies…non-overdubbed electric attack and decay...is playing is a lot less predictable than that of many guitar warriors, and the best of it has a savage beauty that Eddie Van Halen couldn't achieve with six months of overdubs" (Mark Jenkins, Washington City Paper, Washington, DC). "His sizzling electric distortion...thick and saturated tone captures a kind of steel industrial sound, gently relating to the development of the urban situation, and technological society on which he comments, and to the worldly issues faced by modern development. Wallace's music comes out like a giant question with no apparent answer...tapping the human interior's post pro-harmonic feedback" (LaDonna Smith in the improvisor; vol. XI, Birmingham, Alabama).
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