Like a sweet spring breeze blowing through the long, cruel winter, Cory Hanson’s blowing through town again. And like the wind, his new album I Love People comes from parts unknown. Need a ride? Long as you’re ready to find yourself wherever it dies down, jump on!

I Love People’s people are kin to their threadbare folk forbears. Song by song, their occupations, social positions and dispositions unravel like silk into the wind. While they perform, Cory loiters backstage, gently pulling at the... (read more)

From out of the dark, sparks of feedback birdsong signal a return to the singular sonic environments of Rafael Toral. A year after Spectral Evolution, his acclaimed album of electric guitar conceptions, comes the companion work: Traveling Light, out October 24 on Drag City. Sharpening his focus around a set of jazz standards, his move from abstract form to solid song elicits glints from beyond time and space, transpiring to be one of the major accomplishments in Toral's long history.

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