Moving from electric guitar to hollow-body electric to acoustic, and sometimes layering them together, Frisell crafts each song with delicate care, like a painting or a sculpture. Produced with longtime friends and collaborators Lee Townsend and Tucker Martine at Martine's Portland, Oregon studio, the album finds Frisell playing a mix of newly composed songs, as well as older favorites from his extensive back catalog. Frisell amends this with 2018's mutative, deeply considered Music IS, his second album of solo recordings. Interestingly, barring 2000's Ghost Town, he has seldom recorded in a solo setting. His albums with such varied collaborators as trumpeter Ron Miles, violinist Jenny Scheinman, and saxophonist Don Byron often sound like two or more people having an engaging discussion. Known for his searching, often conversational style, guitarist Bill Frisell is also a maverick with a wide-ranging ear for avant-garde jazz, country twang, and droney noise.
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