Tenor/alto saxist and composer Matthew mixes music and poetry on this passionate album of folk and jazz with a core team of Stu Mindeman/p, Clark Sommers/b and Dana Hall/dr along with guests Miguel Zenon/as and Zubin Edaji/tp. The music is high on drama and pathos, as Muneses is languid with Edaji on “Alin Mang Lahi” and the two saunter around Sommers’ bass on the Latin Lover of “Canto de Maria Clara”. With Zenon, no stranger to interpreting Central American themes, things sway with agony on as the alto saxes cry on “Cruelty and Injustice” and jab and swipe like machetes in the bush for “Epilogue: Revolution and Liberation”. The album in and of itself undulates like a late night table dance, filled with spins, twirls and stomping feet. A white knuckler of emotion.