Inner Arrangements by René Najera

Extended play companion to René Najera’s recent Painted Life LP, cut from similar cloth but dyed a different shade of sky. From deep current downtempo and strings-of-life steppers to cloud-watcher breaks and tape-hazed disco, the collection captures Jared Carrigan’s project at its most elusive and elliptical. Music of mirrored streets and eroded coasts, flexing free and lean under sinking suns.

Tokyo affiliate Precipitation lends a mix to “Conscious Living,” while Estonian ex-pat Maria Minerva played party host for the 18-minute hardware odyssey “Live At Maria’s,” but otherwise Inner Arrangements is a solo side quest, soaring and sidewinding through star maps of the mind.

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