THE BALUSTRADE ENSEMBLE - 'Capsules' CD(Dynamophone Records)
An otherworldy collection of adroitly-crafted pieces of dense, acoustic guitar pickings, mellotron, orchestron, claviola, cello, piano, pedal steel, and voice. Delicate and sometimes spooky, 'Capsules' is like the lost soundtrack to a Brothers Quay film, a collection of lovely, brittle compositions viewed through a hazy, antique looking-glass. "Each (piece) seems to glimmer out through Victorian lace curtains yellowed and slightly threadbare from age, through shatters of antique crystal goblets dappled with droplets of deep red, through a flaking, clouded gilt mirror, through deep sea greens and azures. Very cinematic... Very recommended" (Aquarius). Digipak.
