Castanets Take Refuge With Sufjan, Jana Hunter on LP

Castanets songwriter and principal member Ray Raposa made use of "three weeks alone in a Nevada desert motel room" to record his newest album of minimal folk, according to a press release. Appropriately enough, Castanets' fourth full-length and follow-up to last year's In the Vines is called City of Refuge.Don't let all the solace fool you, though. City of Refuge also features "minimal overdubs" from Sufjan Stevens, Jana Hunter, Dawn Smithson (Jessamine), Scott Tuma (Boxhead Ensemble, Souled Ame...

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