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Ray Ashley: Cinema Inferno

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2000

This is a unique assortment of Ray Ashley compositions with Ashley playing Touch guitar --yet another tapping instrument versus picking or strumming exclusively. Paul Mimlitsch guests on Warr guitar/loops, (another stringed, tap-type thing). Freedom Electric is drums, Dema San Tuna is organ, Amy Ksir is oboe and flute, with Jim Speer on clarinet and bass clarinet.Greg Howard, Steve Hahn, Oracular, and Chapman Stick fans might enjoy this release. With novel song structures and extra instruments to augment things, ...