Personal views are all we've got, George - and although many would aspire to the objective absolute, that can never be the case with such an idiosyncratic figure as Rene Zosso.

I can't think of any hurdy-gurdy player who's surpassed Rene with respect to the innovations that have been a crucial feature of his work since the off. This is something that goes beond mere technical mastery into another realm of sonic experience that might be considered avant-garde on one hand, but is in fact rooted in something darkly primal. I think of Rene as the last of the great medieval modernists - never exactly easy listening, but all the more rewarding because of it.

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