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.)