The Dead Tongues - Unsung Passage (LP)The ten remarkable songs of Unsung Passage are long distance distillations of experiences, of events lived and places seen and pondered and ultimately poured into reflective anthems for our harried times. Gustafson recorded these songs much as they were written during short summer sojourns away from the road, when he and a quartet of friends could gather in the Chapel Hill studio The Rubber Room for two day sessions. Longtime North Carolina confidants

is a theme that has been woven into Freitas’s work for years

shy about what he might just play

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adorn the song with complementary instruments and melodies

the fastest he’d ever recorded anything

Westerlund became engrossed in studying the clave

” a quick-moving meditation on the confusion of interpersonal dynamics

but I am something behind my mind

Tyler was in early talks to make a record with Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden

added leads and fills throughout the record) plays a rubber-bridge guitar

and those closest to him

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