Nick Bennett and Kent Rytting (with help from the other members of Naked April, and other collaborators) have released Winter Storm Warning, their first album as a duo.

Four of the songs were written individually (one by Nick, three by Kent); two more started out as rough song "sketches", brought by Nick to the first Naked April sessions; the rest arose from improvisations in Naked April and Two Demons sessions. Throughout the project, even as they dived deeply into the process of recording, and the musical and technological tools available to them (including touchboard stringed instruments such as Chapman Stick® and Warr Guitar®, sampled drums alongside standard drum kits and other percussion, looping and layering of vocal and instrumental parts), the music remained as it began: deep glimpses into the lives of both writers.

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