Sightings - Amusers and PuzzlersAfter the release of their well received ninth studio album, Terribly Well, and their successful month long European tour in 2013, Sightings did the unexpected and quietly disbanded without notice or explanation. More than 15 years in the trenches and making a mess throughout New York City, the band made more of a polarizing impact to formalized underground music that most of their peers. Sightings would have been a national treasure if the whole

and a quintet of young Italian singers who already perform in the most important and prestigious European venues

as Shirley Goodman Pixley

Armida stands for what we would call cognitive dissonance

space-aged songwriter

three new arrangements of existing pieces

which I tried to repeat on the violin

Ravel's Jeux d'eau and - with a nod towards the New World - Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Le bananier

She convinced with impeccable phrasing

Traster is concerned with pinning down the milieu of his home and situating his stories in the rich lineage of Cosmic American music pioneers

it would be impossible to overlook the symphonies of Gustav Mahler

The lineup whom he has invited to work with him in the studio is exceptional: John Patitucci on the double bass

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