Track Listing

1. Consequences
2. Larsen B
3. Cape Of Needles
4. Powerhouse
5. LD50
6. Dryad
7. Hornswoggled
8. eye to eye
9. Procession
10. Requiem

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #554894 in Music
• Published on: 2006-03-17
• Released on: 2003-01-28
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Free jazz meets Asian lyricism meets the intimacy and intensity of chamber music. Art Ensemble of Chicago legend Joseph Jarman, Asian American jazz pioneer Tatsu Aoki and cutting-edge orchestral oboist Robbie Lynn Hunsinger carve out new ground. They've created 'a different kind of jazz album...there is little chaos and less machismo, a refreshing change from the athleticism of the male-dominated free-jazz scene." Aoki's bass "comes in like an earthmover, at once digging a deep foundation and dragging it out of place, creating a constant tremor of tension. All told...his effects and interruptions set up a theme: the ways even the most meditative individual, the solitude conjured up by Jarman and Hunsinger's winds, must contend with the menacing thrum of the insistent outside world." (quotes from the liner notes by Carl Wilson)

Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune, October 28, 2001
Hunsinger beautifully adapted to the rhythmically loose jazz-based improvisational language at the core of Jarman and Aoki's work.

Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune, October 28, 2001
With Aoki's propulsive lines on bass one moment, Japanes drums the next, the musicmaking never lacked for rhythmic drive.