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Will Bernard & Beth Custer: Sky
by Mark Corroto
Luckily there are no record producers or record executives for creative music these days, because clarinetist Beth Custer and guitarist Will Bernard would be out of a job or, at least, a recording contract. That is because neither of the artists' interests can be categorized, pigeonholed, or compartmentalized. Custer performs chamber music, jazz, trance, pop, blues, silent film soundtracks, trip-hop, rock, folk, tribal, and ambient music. Likewise, Bernard has his fingers in jazz (from straight ahead to soul and jazz-rock), ...
read moreBeth Custer: In The Broken Fields Where I Lie
by Mark Corroto
Beth Custer is a musical chameleon. The San Francisco composer changes from musical genre to musical genre with effortless grace and unlike her colleagues from the New York Downtown Scene, she does it without pretension. Just glance at the list of musicians on this release to get a feel for its grand scale. But Beth Custer has always dabbled in scale, working in the psychedelic ethno/ambient Trance Mission with didgeridoo musician Stephen Kent, the Club Foot Orchestra creating soundtracks to ...
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