Disfarmer Digital MP3 Album

Disfarmer Digital MP3 AlbumThe late Michael Disfarmer was an odd, curmudgeonly character in rural Arkansas, who, despite his anti social character, chose to record the stark images of his fellow townspeople, during the 1940s and '50s, in black and white photo portraits. Frisell has set the images to music for this recording, to which the Observer gives four stars, calling it "brilliantly" done; the BBC finds it "quietly impressive a patchwork quilt sewn with empathy, warmth and

providing an unfiltered view of the ensemble

“Ingenious

Steve Lacy

1 in B minor

"Cloudward features eight new compositions by guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson

where he and longtime cohort Noah Georgeson produced the album together

Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg considers it a favorite and tells the New York Times: “Woody Guthrie's spirit runs through this record very strongly

and R&B players as well as gorgeously arranged chamber ensembles

Gabriel Kahane

“Merritt’s facile and often funny rhymes and breezy Broadway melodic style have an easy

a piece for string quartet

and white African composers