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“The temptation to mythologize Bill Fay can be overwhelming; Fay was, for decades, as prolific as he was under-appreciated. Fay's unsung-hero status has changed slowly, steadily, on the order of almost twenty-five years. With each new album comes new hosannas and evangelizers - Jeff Tweedy, Kevin Morby, Adam Granduciel and Julia Jacklin, to name just a few.
The Bill Fay Group, in particular, is Fay's most significant collaborative work; he records as a member of a larger group here, and the result...
Janet is a great, great, classically trained guitarist who plays a unique, personal music, usually for solo and/or prepared solo guitar. She's been quietly working for a long time and this, her third release, recorded with the equally great, great (but better, better known) Fred Frith will bring her a lot more attention, which she fully deserves.
Having had a rare chance to see her perform in the East (she opened up for Boud Deun at one of their final shows in 1998), the fact that the public at...
Jim Denley, piccolo, concert, alto and bass flutes / Andrew Sparling, Eb, Bb and bass clarinets / Alex Ward, Bb clarinet / Tim Berne, alto saxophone / Damien Royannais, baritone saxophone, Eb tubax / Chris Batchelor, trumpet / Joby Burgess, tuned and...