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T Bone Burnett tackles an old childhood nightmare on 'The Other Side'
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The unshakable grip of a childhood nightmare, the kind of sinister, lingering vision that etches itself into a person’s memory long after they outgrow the bedroom where the dream first unfolded, forms the central creative throughline of 'The Other Side', a project built around the act of confronting that long-buried fear to unpack its hold on a creator’s adult life. Categorized within a flexible musical framework that rejects the rigid limits of predefined popular genres, the sound exists in the open, unbound space that allows creators to weave together disparate sonic traditions without being boxed into a label that fails to capture the full scope of their work, a freedom that lets the project’s country blues foundation interact seamlessly with the creative context that shapes all work emerging from its base in Indonesia.
