2 Square Y - The Secret DegreeMozart was a freemason. While still a baby, he was gifted a magic ! ute on which he wrote all his tunes. Some of them are still around. Even so, the best way to gift wrap your head around The Secret Degree, the latest release from Xentos Fray Bentos (guitars, keys, voice) and Ted 'Tebbs' Barrow (circuit bending, percussion) is to picture it as a town. A town full of pity: Five blocks long, forty miles north of nowhere, with an empty gas station, a

and almost savage commitment to a new life

it's long-breathed melodies and grasp of large-scale form bely it's composer's relative inexperience

Pieranunzi has risen to the ranks of the most significant contemporary musicians

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and a brand new arrangement of the inspiring and spiritual Misa Criolla by Ariel Ram¡rez

Tony's exhaustive search fractures his relationship with his wife

he was covered in glory and had nothing left to prove

This album is built around Messiaen

is the fact that he does not yet seem to have settled into a qualitative sound or pattern

said that the words are about a loss of innocence and childhood belief

in the great Italian choral tradition

opposite Charles Castronovo as Alfredo