We can't conceal our excitement about Portraits: 32 Singers, 32 Songs , uniting many spectacular Bay Area artists going solo for a 2-disc compilation intended to create community. Greg Edwards, booker of the Modesto show series Off the Air, conceived the project over a year ago as an artistic crosscutting of photography, music and illustration: "The original idea for the music portion of “Portraits” was that the songs would be a stripped down snapshot of the songwriters, that the they would keep things as minimal as possible when writing their tracks so their voice wouldn't get lost in production and/or [...]