and the cover painting from Ypsilanti artist Jim Cherewick hints at Riverbed's uncommon colors and personality

The album unfolds a series of subtle and mesmerizing compositions inspired by the legacy of Al-Andalus

co-leading the jagged art-rock experimentation of Finom

Songs snake their way from a lo-fi home recording to something glossier made with longtime friends at Asheville's Drop of Sun studios

TOM PHILIPS / GAVIN BRYARS / FRED ORTON - Irma - An Opera by Tom Phillips LP Hardcore and the cover painting fromOn composing Tom Phillips' Irma: In February and March of 1977, for Brian Enos Obscure Records, I made a version of Irma. The following notes on the piece arise out of that involvement and try to show how the piece can be made into a performance state. Irma is a curious score it is printed on a single sheet 50cms x 50cms. The notation consists of fragments from Toms continuing treatment of the victorian novel by W. H. Mallock, which he calls A