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Before and after their studio is destroyed by an earthquake, Max's San Francisco band exorcises their demons with exotic grooves and the eerie cries of Mike Elias's lap steel guitar. |
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At picnics and parties in the East Bay, Max and friends explore new musical worlds with African drums, Appalachian banjo, saxophone, flute, and vocal improv. |
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The "parlor songs" Max's family sang together, not just at reunions, but while playing games, doing chores, tending the campfire, getting ready for bed. |
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The old-time hymns Max's family sang together at reunions and Sunday Sings, at the homeplaces of his Scottish-American great-grandparents. |
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Max's best-selling album: "Got goose bumps while listening." "The album will take you on an adventure and stay with you." "Illuminating, hummable and danceable." |
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Mysterious, exotic & cosmopolitan: "The album subtly sets slivers of world music, dance and quirky indie, and could give latter day David Byrne a run for his money." |
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Remix of The Rifted Valley by "an Electronic/Dub-step Composer combining the heady sensuality of Spain with the giddy dance-floor exuberance of the Houston Texas scene." |
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Max's "roots" album, the product of a lifetime exploring the mysteries of nature and the human heart, "somewhere deep in that intellectual alt Americana that folks like Andrew Bird inhabit." |
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This passionate new single channels the energy of generations of literate punk rock, from Patti Smith to Arcade Fire. |
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"This is the folk music of our times...you'll find tracks reminiscent of distant lands...a sense of longing and love of friendship and connection. This album is timeless." |
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"This album resonates with the honesty of a Lou Reed...with the wit and irony of a Camper Van Beethoven. But what stands out...is a soulful mood that resembles...Calexico." |
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Loud & fast: "Totally rocking! Especially like the maniacal vocals." |
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Max's 1990s band: 6 studio and 6 live tracks, from acoustic to electric, Max's originals plus Native American and old time country songs. |
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Free download of Rank Stranger! "Terra Incognita...salutes bluegrass heroes, The Stanley Brothers, by gutting the instrumental and faithfully recreating the desolate lyric." |
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"Terra Incognita fuses the disparate styles of African juju music, American and Canadian bluegrass, and the English folk revival...into an ethereal tribal sound" |
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