A ? Of When: Black Vinyl LP Terence Blanchard The Meaning of the Ritual

The Meaning of the Ritual

for San Francisco Performances

Its interlocking parts tell an epic story about the quest for artistic expression

while also enabling more musical information to be heard than was possible before

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A ? Of When: Black Vinyl LP Terence Blanchard The Meaning of the RitualPanda Bear and Sonic Booms second album together, A ? of WHEN, maintains the sense of musical play brought forth in their triumphant 2022 debut, Reset. It is built on loops of harp (Mary Lattimore) and sequences of steel drum, webs of pedal steel and even bits of a mariachi band. These are, of course, deliberate choices, sounds and textures theyve never used and that offered a clear sonic break from the success of Reset. But maybe more than ever,