DESCRIPTION:
Ghosts of Marumbey starts on land: A doleful resonator guitar moans wide and long over a stoic acoustic. This could score a film on the American Heartland-- a wide camera lens panning over grasslands and closing in on a small town in Kansas or Oklahoma. The resonator slide eventually starts smiling moments after the acoustic guitar takes the lead and lift, its ascending scale lighting an optimistic skyline.

But guitarists Mike Tamburo and Ken Camden offer this flash of innocence only to bury it immediately. Six minutes in, the floodgates swing open, and the drone that's been surfacing beneath turns bitter and greedy. Eventually, it swallows everything around it: Marumbey, after all, feels cosmic, infinite even. This is a record of extreme empirical and emotional breadth, its beautiful highs (like the blissful guitar line of the opener, "Two Doors from the Corner") and its savage lows (like "Beneath the River", the suffocating, exhausting drone it segues into) offering enough space for dozens of interlaced travails.

Track 1 from Ghosts of Marumby
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