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For most fans of the genre the phrase ‘Doomy feel’ doesn’t quite with the narrative; it belongs more with a particular phase of Blues than it does with Jazz, and yet striding out wielding the sword of music as the protagonist in this earthy narrative comes the intimate and darkly held Argento from A.M.E.N.; a set of Avant-Garde studies in human existence that sends a delicious shiver down the spine as the listener is shown the line gossamer thread that separates the two genres as twins in a spectral march.