The circumstances and context behind writing or recording some LPs are so enriching, so essential to listening to the music within, that it becomes fairly difficult to keep the two topics separate.
Such is the case big-time with not one, but two new LPs from prolific percussionist, engineer and Quakebasket proprietor Tim Barnes – Noumena and Lost Words.
In 2021, doctors diagnosed Barnes with early-onset Alzheimer’s. He was just 54 at the time.
So, after some percolation, his friend Ken Brown — and, yes, for the record, that’s the Tortoise and Bastro alumnus who formerly went by the name Bundy K. Brown — hatched a project, cobbling together some of Barnes’ disparate strands of collaborators, friends and musical…

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