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Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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The Willy Wonka of art rock

Published Friday, September 25, 2009

It’s official: Tyondai Braxton is the Willy Wonka of art rock. Braxton’s latest solo creation, “Central Market,” is so exuberant, so droll, so whimsically entertaining and unpredictable, that you’d practically have to be Augustus Gloop to resist its charm.
Even to call Braxton’s latest endeavor art rock is to pigeonhole it in a way he would undoubtedly disapprove of. His compositions reject the notion of genre or classification; he mixes and layers classical reveries with avant-garde jazz interludes and protolinguistic human noises. His primary concern appears to be the unpredictable...

#1 By hugsnotdrugs 12:49p.m. on September 25, 2009

Are you out of your mind? Twilight is great!!!!!

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