Penumbra [release date September 23, 2008], the new work by Djivan Gasparyan and Michael Brook, is many things: East-meets-west, ancient-meets-modern. The album is, by turns, familiar and new, comforting and jarring, sly and moving. Imagine Otis Redding singing Bollywood melodies backed by a surf band. Inventive at every turn, full of surprises and delights and anything but predictable, it is everything implied by the title, a play of shadows and light, mysteries and revelations.
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