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Ellul: Ellul
by Ian Patterson
Ellul, the self-titled debut from Joel St. Julien and Joel Brown-Tarman, is a fine feather in the cap for Sounds Are Active helmsman and champion of creative music Chris Schlarb. These ten songs are searching and tender, dark and illuminating, and nothing short of masterpieces of the songwriting craft.
Joel St. Julien's vocals have the soul-baring fragility of English singer Nick Drake at the outset of “Ballet Faces;" an edgy melancholy is buoyed by quietly strummed ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
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