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Album Review
Joy On Fire: Unknown Cities
by Gareth Thompson
In creating his Dream City paintings, the Baltimore-based artist Minás Konsolas aspired to a mountain village ideal, an entity of intimacy and community. Using a detail from these works as the cover for their Unknown Cities album, the power trio Joy On Fire again shows how its art intersects with outsider culture. There is something of the DIY aesthetic about Joy On Fire, a band whose music offers a narrative of community with its mix of noise and avant-garde jazz. ...
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