Guitarist David Riddel creates a clever chamber jazz project, complete with 40 page novella, concerning a modern folktale of mythology. The ambitions ten part project brings together Aline Homzy/vi, Colleen Allen/as-fl, Conrad Gluch/as-bcl, Noam Lemish/p, Andrew Downing/b and Stefan Hegerat/dr to create an musical odyssey. Between the pastoral bookmarks of “Prologue” and “Epilogue”, one gets a funky and hip “The Consumption” supplied by Hegerat’s backbeat and Lemish’s rich ivories, while Gluch’s bass clarinet broods on the nocturne of “The Fox (Part 1)”. Riddel plays a troubadour’d guitar on “Necropolis” with elegant support from Downing and Lemish” and his strings are like liquid mercury as the squirm through a joyful “Creature”. The team creates an easy groove for “The Philistine” and give and indie bop feel for “The Muddy River To Nowhere”. Dante dances!