PORTRAYAL OF GUILT - The Beginning of The End LP India listening to the album’s dozen

listening to the album’s dozen discrete pieces feels like leafing thru a journal of hand-written notes

“Mountains that take wing” introduces the first theme of the album

the series would feature seven Joe McPhee records

homemade CD-R runs

and in this trio her contribution wanders from considerate bow work to brisk fingerpicking

PORTRAYAL OF GUILT - The Beginning of The End LP India listening to the album’s dozenBeginning of the End is the latest album from Portrayal of Guilt, a curious title for a band that has treated each release like a new creative start, constantly reinventing themselves since their inception less than a decade ago. In that relatively short time, the Austin trio have not only toured the world over, created their own musical eco system and released three seminal full length albums, they have done it in a manner that avoided compromise,