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Kevin Breit

Sisters Euclid guitarist Kevin Breit continues to explore the mandolin on Ernesto & Delilah, a playful and theatrical double album featuring duets with actor/singer Rebecca Jenkins on Delilah and Breit’s Brazilian-, jazz- and classical-inspired tunes on Ernesto.

Breit invented most of the personnel credited on the record, going so far as to create producer and song contributor pseudonyms for himself (likewise the Upper York Mandolin Orchestra is – you guessed it – him) but he should have taken it one step further and not bothered with disclosure.

The title track on the Ernesto side is jaunty, and Santo Antônio could be the soundtrack of a travelogue but without Breit’s and Jenkins’s voices pinning things down, the all-instrumental side is stuck in a state of jumpiness. I’d prefer to hear Breit play these frenetically jazzy mando jams, and especially the mellower duets, live on an outdoor stage.

Top track: Ghost Of California

Kevin Breit plays Hugh’s Room Thursday (June 25). 

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