Bobby Previte writes, conducts and arranges all of the music on this album, along with playing drums, percussion, guitar, harmonica and auto harp with an intuitive team of John Medeski/p, Zeena Parkns/harp, Fabian Rucker/as, Jen Shyu/voc-erhu-p and Nels Cline. The music is the second part of a Terminals Trilogy, which is an acoustic song cycle with the topic being transit and migration. There are few hints on this album of the subject matter, as Shyu’s voice is not used often, and is usually wordless. Having said that, her vocals are dark and agonizing with harp on “Casting Off” and is tranquil on “When I Land” before the piece leads to a dramatic conclusion. Rucker’s alto sax gets plenty of solo space on the fierce and angry “All the World” also careening on “Last Stand/Final Approach.” The music catches breath with prancing piano and harp on “Coming About” and Nels Cline’s folksy ruminations on “All Hands.” The mix of swirling strings and volcanic rhythms make for a white knuckler of a ride.