It’s not often an album title perfectly sums up the kind of music contained within, but Old Time Fantasias comes close. Joseph Allred’s 23rd solo album (roughly) is a finely-balanced combination of dreamlike freeform experimentalism and folksy fingerpicked twang, the kind of thing the Massachusetts resident has perfected over their long career. But take a closer listen and you might come to the conclusion that this album is something of an outlier in Allred’s catalogue. For one thing, Old Time Fantasias is not really a solo album: early in the recording process, Allred enlisted the help of pianist Hans Chew, and before long, the project had burgeoned into what Allred calls ‘probably the most involved and densely orchestrated album I’ve made…
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