The Dead Tongues - Unsung Passage (CD)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

the poetry of Walt Whitman

It’s definitely not a traditional way to present a record

the band cycles with him through his woes

Special Characteristics: structured

with nothing out of place – even if the place of subject feels unknowable

I got acquainted with Alaíde listening to “Clube da Esquina

and then on to much bigger stages offline

a chasm between instrumentation and Meath’s delicate voice

Meanwhile “Mestizaje” and “Queer Love and Afro Mexico” work together to chronicle the unlearning of erasure under a flattened definition of unity and

With the crank of a bicycle bell popping in over the thumping bass track

and she’s preparing for her largest world tour to date—yet her ability to make listeners feel like they’re inside in a private cosmos alongside her remains as strong as ever

he stumbles upon a new credo: “Wait