Esmerine's new album Dalmak emphatically confirms that the group has indeed continued writing
underpin two string quintets—Ghost Orchestra (Reykjavík) and Possible Orchestra (Winnipeg)—processed and erased in a doleful durational work
the musicology of 19th century repertoire from Jewish shtetls
inscribing its own little portal and then breaking open through it
CST131 Eric Chenaux | Slowly Paradise CST087 Esmerine's new album Dalmak emphaticallyEric Chenaux operates among various musical 'traditions' but perhaps most broadly, his records grapple with the relationship between improvisation and structure in very particular, unique, idiosyncratic ways and quite without irony or cynicism, through love. Because fundamentally, Chenaux writes love songs, which he sings in a voice honeyed and clear, while his guitar gently bends, frazzes, chortles, diverges and decomposes. This juxtaposition of his