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Avast and haul along the bowline, let loose the topsail and tighten the topgallants… It’s Vol. 2 of one of the oddest collections you’re ever likely to lend your landlubber ears to. In the past, coordinator Hal Willner has supervised…

The bold mission statement accompanying this album declares that Faustus – a trio involving melodeon kingpin Saul Rose and two Bellowheads, Paul Sartin and Benji Kirkpatrick – are driven by a desire to “banish all that is anodyne and fey in…

What is a storymap? It sounds very philosophical imprinted upon an album cover, but… how (and why) would you "map" stories? The cartographers in question are Kris Drever, guitarist, mandolin player and vocalist, usually spied as part of the…