The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...
On the next Echoes, two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim “Kimo” West. Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for ...
The horror sound is there too, with menacing baroque organs à la Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, along with a few callbacks to orchestral strings ... from electric guitars to harpsichords.