Stephan Spicher gets equal billing for his “Visuals” while Greg Osby’s saxes and Florian Arbenz’s drums and percussion provides the sound on these seven freebopping originals.
Osby’s big tone on the alto sears through the exotic kalimba and driving drum pulse on “Wooden Lines” while floating on the ethereal “The Passage Of Light” on the soprano sax. Arbenz uses hands on the drums for a hip cadence on “Homaneje” and his high hat gives a strong backbeat to “Truth”. Osby’s vibrato is warm on the somber and chiming “Chant” and cantoral with deep subtones on “Please Stand By”. Muscular musical musings.