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Extending the minimalist/global music ideas of the late John Hassell, Montreal raised Aaron Shragge brings his custom microtonal slide trumpet with rotary valves, shakuhachi and special effects, to a unified quartet that plays three of his compositions one of Hassell’s and five group improvisation. Assisting are the alternately rhapsodic and ratcheting flanges and frails from guitarist Luke Schwartz, the understated throbs of Damon Banks’ bass strings and Deric Dickens’s drum clanks, chips and clatters. Appending… Read More