Destroyer - LABYRINTHITISVinyl LP pressing. More than an arcane puzzle for the listener, Labyrinthitis warps and winds through unfamiliar territory for Bejar as well. Written largely in 2020 and recorded the following spring, the album most often finds Bejar and frequent collaborator John Collins seeking the mythic artifacts buried somewhere under the dance floor, from the glitzy spiral of "It Takes a Thief" to the Books ian collage bliss of the title track. Initial song

shares the complex musical language of his teacher

116 and 4 Klavierstücke

on the stage and in the music" as de Marchi puts it

Al had already mastered the Armenian dance hall repertoire

The fortepiano recorded here was made in 2019 by Rodney Regier and is a copy of an instrument by Viennese maker Anton Walter (1752-1826)

bringing together the music of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov

The movie includes interviews with The Jeff Healey House Band

After Máximo Diego Pujol (born 1957) discovered a guitar in a closet at his parents' home in Buenos Aires

The harmonies and the virtuosity: that is what the two composers Sergei Rachmaninoff and Carlos Guastavino have in common

and singing the songs

On the funky keyboard driven "Pretty Girls"

and this is truly one of Mighty Sparrow's masterpieces