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his 2011 album Hallway of Mirrors) on a smaller scale

A midpoint that needs to be crossed so we can finish what we started with “A dawn to fear”

but the expansive record is

Field recordings and roiling semi-improvised passages frame these fervent epics

” Channeling their stew of personal-canon heroes while drawing inspiration from contemporaries like Alvvays and Courtney Barnett

JEFF PARKER - The Relatives LP Free Jazz his 2011 album Hallway ofIf you went looking for a poster child for Chicago's multidirectional, cross pollinating, interstylistic music scene, you couldn't find a better one than Jeff Parker. Parker: jazz guitarist with pro credentials, widely travelled and prized by top soul jazzers and hard boppers. Parker: inveterate rocker who revitalized Tortoise with his ferocious improvising and tasty licks. Parker: experimentalist willing to try new dub, hip hop, electronic, collage,