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TROY ROBERTS & TIM JAGO

Toy Robot

So many new recordings made during the year 2020 share the same backstory: With pandemic lockdowns firmly in place, musicians cut their parts at home tells a different tale: A quartet of Australians (the two co-leaders having long ago officially relocated to New York) found themselves in West Australia and managed to gather in the same room at the same time—what a concept! You can tell the difference too: The energy generated by players spontaneously creating together is palpable.

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