The Dead Tongues - Transmigration Blues (CD)When Ryan Gustafson finished recording Transmigration Blues, his fourth and best album under the name The Dead Tongues, in the summer of 2019, he slumped into a month long haze of depression. For two decades, Gustafsona preternaturally sensitive soul, interested in the mystic but grounded by his love of quiet woods and open desertshad made many albums under assorted guises. This one however had left him wounded, momentarily empty. Here, Gustafson

solo artist

” and marks Reyna Tropical’s movement from a duo to a solo project

Collaborating closely with arranger Taro Umebayashi and creative director Kodai Kobayashi

Meath says

and the midwest – with both artists continuing to shape the songs in between sessions

the project aptly described itself as “a creature growing from the mouths of Molly Erin Sarlé

creating a little chamber ensemble for one of once-familiar

in the almost innate shifts that a band of longtime best friends can tap after so much time spent helping to shape one another’s musical language

The soul wasn’t there

Meanwhile “Uiara” is described by Freitas as another name for the pink river dolphin

but otherwise brand new

eclectic community of artists including Arooj Aftab