"Trumpet, cello and percussion wouldn’t seem to share many timbral effects, but it’s often difficult to figure out who’s doing what. “Kasu,” for example, is a rolling patter of metallic-sounding thwacks, taps and scrapes that evokes myriad shades of gray, yet even when Dorner offers more conventional brass tones, as on “Ranzen,” the quick-blink reflexes of Lonberg-Holm and Zerang are at once so intuitive and disorienting that the trumpeter may as well be playing a belt sander, a testament to the trio’s sense of sonic creativity. Rather than revealing pet licks and favorite gimmicks, repeated listening only delivers a greater array of clever details." - Peter Margasak, JazzTimes
credits
released November 1, 2000
Recorded At – Airwave Recording Studios
Pressed By – Disque Americ
Cello – Fred Lonberg-Holm*
Cover – Jaron Childs
Design – Amy Wencel
Engineer – Kyle White
Mixed By – Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Zerang
Percussion [Multiple], Percussion [Tubaphone] – Michael Zerang
Trumpet – Axel Dörner
Recorded on 19 November 1998 at Airwave Recording Studios, Chicago
Energy time maddafakkas! This is hard hitting free jazz for the revolution. Listening to this you could believe it might actually happen!
Anyone who thinks Jazz is for old folks should give this a spin. It couldn’t be more contemporary to my ears. Crinklechips