Hive Dwellers - Get inLast autumn Calvin Johnson took a train from Providence, RI, to Burlington, IA; naturally he stopped off in Chicago, IL for three days to check in with Mike, Dan, Josh, Hunter: Mahjongg. You know it was Dr. Jekyll who wore the crazy pants in the family, didn't you? Mr. Hyde just had an extremely uncouth case of morning hair. Mahjongg are the perfect combination of the two: whack like Jekyll, hair like Hyde. When Calvin says, "Let's Play Band!" all

and at Carnegie Halls Zankel Hall with soprano Susanna Phillips

A longtime fan of ambient-adjacent Ghostly International artists such as Telefon Tel Aviv (who she'd ask to master the album)

for over 50 years

Recorded during the group's 1999 European tour at the famed Montreux Jazz Festival

The music of the saga has featured the work of the most recognized film composers

often writing in a more abstract and severe style than his late-Romantic music for the movies

With the songs and stories on this record

who originally hails from Indianapolis

to his complex and individual mature late quartets of great expressive power

the reclusive German released his debut full-length "Beyond the Realm" in late 2019 to much critical acclaim

the piccolo contributes shrill tones to the descent into hell

including Satchel Paige