Frank Pahl

"The Bilbao Effect"

Lead-off track from a collection of prepared piano pieces by Detroiter Frank Pahl (Little Bang Theory, Only a Mother, etc.). Balinese gamelan masters meet Philip Glass in a music box. Listen! —W. Kim Heron

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