Leaning In: Restroy’s Chris Dammann mines hidden beauty for musical inspiration


“I’m always trying to do something a little impossible,” says Chris Dammann about blending jazz, grunge, electronic, classical and mbira music into compositions for his avant-garde group, Restroy. “There’s something beautiful about impossible things.”
Photo by Amy Jackson

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