Not exactly CBOM but fairly close. Wanted to notify the readership of a new release by the Colorado based band - Taarka (consisting primarily of David and Enion Tiller) "The Martian Picture Soundtrack". They bill themselves as performing "seismic gypsy hypno-jazz" and fall into that broad catagory of music loosely termed "new acoustic". Somewhat similar influences as David Grisman but with a few vocals thrown in. Enion is a violin player. David plays mandolin but also lays down rhythm and lead guitar lines with one of the new Breedlove tenor guitars (tuned GDAE). It seems that there are very few recorded samples of lead playing on a tenor guitar, especially while maintaining 5ths tuning. Tiller takes tasty tenor solos on nearly every track on the CD along with a number of mandolin solos. The tenor solos obviously would lay nicely on most octave mandolins. Enion has a nice flowing style on 5 string violin. No finanical interest. www.taarka.com
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