Now on extended hiatus from his full-time gig, McCann has composed a beautiful and emotionally raw solo debut under the moniker The Lord Dog Bird.

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He also treated us to his solo guitar treatments of two jazz standards ("But Beautiful" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"), as well as one of his own solo guitar compositions, "Venezuelan Nights, " from his recent CD The Spice of Life.

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It's a beautiful work, as I expected your first solo record to be.

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Subtly compelling and quietly beautiful, it's as strong as anything Haines has recorded, solo or otherwise.

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With Zikmu, and now Zikmu Solo, Parrot has changed the relation to sound by offering a beautiful object, highly technological and fully intuitive, that adapt to all music uses and to all environments.

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As a solo artist, Haines makes music that's gracefully infectious, elegantly beautiful and shot through with doomstruck disappointment that can be felt in the bones.

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