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Nick Pynn – acoustic guitar (tracks 7, 8, 11, 12, 14), 10-string bouzouki (track 5), lap dulcimer (tracks 4, 10), guitar (tracks 1, 3-5), wine glasses (track 2), mandocello (track 6), violin (tracks 1, 3, 5, 9, 10), oud (track 10), bass pedalboard (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6-9), playing cards sounds (track
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is less an album than a tour of strange places, exotic landscapes grown with sound and populated with voices on the edge of familiarity. It's an enchanting trip, and won't use up your vacation time." She felt the album was "much different than a standard music recording."
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military museum, where he discovered that an "afterplanesman" who "the man who sits and keeps the balanced by looking at the bubble in the spirit level." This was when Pynn decided to create
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