Fantastic work from a trans-Atlantic group – one that features really beautiful work on saxes from Daunik
Lazro, in one
of his best settings in many years! All the other musicians here are fantastic – as in addition to Daunik on tenor and baritone, the rest
of the group features Joe
McPhee on tenor and pocket trumpet, Joshua
Abrams on bass and guembri, Guillaume
Seguron on bass as well, and Chad
Taylor on drums and mbira! Given the use
of the double basses, there's a strong bottom end here – and that's perfect for those organic tones that we've always loved from
Lazro's horn, since first discovering him in the 80s – a very different trajectory
of improvisation than some
of his European contemporaries, with a quality that seems to bring out more from
McPhee as well.
Taylor just keeps exploding with his talents in recent years, and is a perfect partner for the music here – and all the tracks are improvised, save for a snippet
of Albert Ayler's "Mothers" which appears at one spot.
(Out of print.)