A Guide for Reason ~ XIII – XIV

In the digital age, one has a begrudging admiration for the few artists who still insist on doing things the old school way.  Mike Fazio (A Guide for Reason) is one of these.  After three years of commercial silence, he

A Guide for Reason ~ Iconography

“This music has no purpose other than it is”, writes Mike Fazio of his musical guise A Guide for Reason. We wll be happy to amend that statement, because listeners may use this odd music for other purposes: relaxation, mood

Fazio ~ Élégie

The recorded output of Mike Fazio (orchestramaxfieldparrish) has often been called “difficult music”, but Élégie is surprisingly accessible – at least when compared to A Guide for Reason I-VI, the first volume of the Music from a Strange Box series.  The reason is fairly obvious: Élégie is primarily