Seven years since the release of his ambitious debut double-album Earth and Sky (2016), Musk Ox/The Night Watch guitarist and Agalloch collaborator Nathanael Laroch​ette returns with his second full-length Old Growth, a moving collection of solo acoustic compositions recorded live (often by candlelight) in a woodland cabin on the shores of White Lake, Ontario. To take the project even further, Nathanael Larochette teamed up with Norwegian composer Martin Romberg of Raven Music Editions to publish a complete guitar tablature book in hopes of inspiring guitarists to explore the art of fingerpicking. In a world where noise has become synonymous with life, the fragile instrumentals of Old Growth offer a private soundtrack to the quiet truths within, reminding us of our place in this vast forest of existence.