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  The Balustrade Ensemble is guitarist and composer Grant Miller (Mandible Chatter), arranger and engineer Scott Solter (Mountain Goats, Boxharp, Tarantel, John Vanderslice), and vocals by Wendy Allen. Assisted by select players (including Liam Singer and Matt Henry Cunitz) contributing to the blend vintage keyboards, cello, piano, and pedal steel. The group's music embraces the textures and invention of the modern era in conjunction with a more formal –even at times, antiquarian– sensibility. In the end, it is more progressive than regressive, moving the listener forward toward new promises.  For more information, please contact Evan Sornstein at Dynamophone Records. |
 The response for Capsules has been overwhelming, already making its way on to at least 10 "Best Of" lists. Below is the beginning of some of the accolades The Balustrade Ensemble has garnered: "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." "The album's ten deeply ethereal
settings conjure Victorian-styled universes where music boxes,
rickety keyboards and strings re-animate the nightmarish current
burbling below the surface of the Grimm brothers' folk-tales...
The Balustrade Ensemble believes 'listening need not be difficult
to be compelling,' and its thoroughly engrossing Capsules is certainly
proof of that. " |
 Capsules is an otherworldy collection of adroitly-crafted pieces of rich acoustic guitar pickings, mellotron, orchestron, claviola, cello, piano, pedal steel, and voice. A brittle view of tomorrow through the hazy, antique looking-glass of yester-year's vision. 
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