Library of Babel - s/t

Library of Babel
s/t

Library of Babel - s/t

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​ As Library of Babel, the guitarist and music teacher Shane Parish, cellist Emmalee Hunnicutt and bassis Frank Meadows found together to create some sort of free folk/improv chamber music.

All three are hailing from Asheville, NC the town and area that is also home for improv acoustic guitarist Tashi Dorji, american primitive guitarist Sarah Louise or singer-songrwriter Wes Tirey. You might have seen their names names before or in combination with each other. If not, look them up!

Library of Babel is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges where he describes the world as a infinite library containing meaningless books in a random order.

Though the vast majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books.
​Wikipedia

As mind-bending this story is, as mind-bending is the music of this acoustic trio. There are chaotic moments that translate to the gibberish and there are beautiful moments where everything seem to makes sense (Cracked Mud, Deer Park).

If you are familiar with Parish's or Dorji's freeform guitar explorations, you definitely need to hear this. 

This was released on Blue Tapes in January.

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