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Astral Law in Oli Arditi’s 12 Best Albums of the Year

Astral Law cover artOli Arditi — one of my favorite music writers — chose Astral Law as one of his 12 albums of the year. Here’s what he had to say:

This is an album of experimental guitar sounds, often constructed around Beaudreau’s instrumental skills, but equally likely to foreground aleatory elements such as the sounds of accidental contact with the strings or body of the instrument, or environmental sounds such as passing traffic. Where the focus is on melody, various strategies are

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Astral Law CDRs are Here

It took me longer than I expected, and I changed my production plan along the way, but hard copies of Astral Law are finally available. They’re CDRs which are being burned from a disc image of the master prepared by Scott Hull at Masterdisk, and they sound great. The sleeves are just like those used for Java Street Bagatelles and Fresh Twigs, but this time I’m assembling them myself — as you can see in the photos below.


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