This piece opens like an expansive velvet chasm you freefall into cushioned by an enveloping bass flute. But just as you begin to drift away, the peripheral shadows usher in an undulating flange overtaking you and shifting the feel of the piece to something more ominous, then pulling back as an exotic melody is introduced. And again, as you relax into the eastern modalities the restless serpent strikes out again bringing the rest of the sonic tableau with it, swaying as a whole, and then dissolving like a dream. Good attention to tonal color.

For me, the apex of jazz was the Herbie Hancock Sextet; intellectual and abstract but still very down and visceral. A perfect balance of traditional jazz stylings combined with open ended potentials of electronics. This track shares space on that same plateau. Rising out of a dense chordal mist, the electronics groove along providing an ample funky bottom end with tasteful splashes here and there offering plenty of room and support for the saucy blowing of Sharp and Reigle who trade blasts and runs occasionally merging together in fluent aural arcs. Dig it.

I don't usually listen to this style of music. But I gave it a listen. And then a few more. And then I was hooked. The nuances alone (timbre, timing, effects, etc) had me looping the piece. I think the thing that gets me the most is the way the track evolves. Didn't think the opening was going to take me where it did. A simple melody starts chasing itself through light percussion with a tastefully clever slip in the melody at 1:09. Accents start filling out the spaces, but the melody holds on until it builds and fills out taking over the space and totally remaking it. The second half is devoted to developing the delicate and yet powerful melodic theme in a way that is engaging and emotive - almost overly so at times, although it never crosses that line. Excellent production values as well. Enchanting. A beautiful piece of music.

Deep sepulchral tolling reverbrating against a tidal realm of dark shadows and silhouettes. Somber and reflective. The anguish of fallen angels.

Glacial halos of wheeling tones suspended in a twilight of resonance. Sonorous trochilics. Very meditative.