On this album, electric guitarist Sean Shibe takes us on a wide-ranging journey that begins with medieval plainchant (arranged here for what sounds like a guitar played with an ebow, which creates infinite sustain) and takes us through the 20th century (arrangements of works by Olivier Messiaen, Meredith Monk, and the brilliant outsider composer Moondog, among others). On the program, jazz pieces by Chick Corea and Bill Evans rub shoulders with the classical material, but all of it is united sonically by Shibe’s sensitive virtuosity. This is a player who is not afraid to be a bit confrontational – his infamous performance of Georges Lentz’s Ingwe was reportedly so loud that it drove scores of patrons out of London’s Wigmore Hall – but his arrangements here are inviting rather than challenging, even when he makes concerted use of distortion and other electronic effects.