Otis Taylor's new recording, "Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs" is set for June 23rd 2009, release on Telarc International, a division of Concord Music Group. The album also features guest appearances by Gary Moore (like on Taylor’s "Definition Of A Circle" album in 2007) and jazz/hip-hop pianist Jason Moran. Just like two years ago, we can hear Gary's guitar playing in three songs: "Sunday Morning", "Lost My Guitar" and "If I Hope".
"Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs" follows Taylor's 2008 opus "Recapturing The Banjo", an album that celebrated the African roots of an instrument whose origins have been largely obscured by its subsequent associations with Appalachian folk music.

“This is a different kind of endeavor for me,” he says of the new recording. “I found myself saying, ‘What can I do after making a banjo album? What will people want to listen to?’ My answer was love songs. I'm doing things here that I didn't have the opportunity to do on previous albums, things that people wouldn't normally expect from me, compared to what I've done so far. I think it's one of my best works because it has such unusual elements.”

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