Local vocalist (and noted geologist) Chuck Ver Straeten is a storyteller, and while he manifests his musical narratives mostly without actual lyrics, he is, in his own way, voluble, not laconic. His gutturally expulsive sprechgesang sounds Norse, but the language is inscrutably atavistic, inchoate phonemes that are viscerally expressive, pre-language run amok. His luxuriant accent […]
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