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Artist Paul Metzger

Minnesotan stringed-instrument alchemist Paul Metzger is best known for taking the banjo out of its usual plucky groove and stretching it into chiming, slow-building, often improvised solos. Most striking is his 12-string banjo, which he plays with a bow to create impressively rich drones, and fingerpicks to form knotted melodies that wind around their own mysterious rhythmic axes. This has made for a surprisingly varied body of work, which maintains an air of mystic quietude up through this year's live album Anamnestic Tincture.

Updated 11/04/2009

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