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talking us through his personal choices as though he's sitting cross-legged on the carpet going through records with you in his lounge

Paul is finally reeled back to reality

resulting in the total of a hundred Menuets

which he also founded

You'll see and feel results in no time

full of celestial visions and lofty tremolos

masses and concertos

which is pretty embarrassing and leaves Yuko rather conflicted

is a contemporary classic

according to Colin Escott's excellent liner notes (over the course of the two discs

They sound like the classic hard and heavy of the 70s-80s era

and also include his own darkly evocative original compositions