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placing the album at a pivotal moment in his late-1950s trajectory

Carlos “Carly” Maldonado and Victor Pablo Garcia Gaetan

and holiday nostalgia

In addition to a core trio of Burniss Travis on bass and Jeremy Dutton on drums

and bass clarinet

Deface The Currency: CD BF30 placing the album at aDeface the Currency is the second collaboration between The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis. Recorded immediately upon return from a joyous European tour, engineer Don Godwin captured the sound of what the forge of 150 shows in a year can do to a band. It is quite simply a huge change. In energy, in writing, in sound. The band has become a unit designed to destroy on stage, and this record is expansive, ambitious, and spontaneous. Full of complex