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Album Review

Mytha: How It All Started

Read "How It All Started" reviewed by Chris May


Extraordinary is an over-used word, but it applies to this album, and then some. The music is made almost entirely by Swiss alphorns, heavy wooden horns ten-to-twelve feet long, straight except for their bulbous curved bells, which rest on the ground, the player standing at the business end, gripping the instrument's neck with both hands and, one imagines, bringing new meaning to the word “blowhard." Alphorns look cumbersome and lumpen on an industrial scale, and it is hard to imagine ...


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