Loose fitting themes tied together with reeds.
Guitarist Travis Reuter brings together Mark Shim/ts, Peter Schlamb/vib, Harish Raghavan/b and Tyshawn Sorey/dr for ten originals in mix and match fashion. Sorey and Raghaven dig in deep on “#13 F34” and are kinetic for “#8 D@z”. Things bounce around and carom on “Same Song” with vibes, guitar and sax jousting on “”#9 Low/High 1” with some acidic guitar on “Interlude1”. The themes get slapped around with some exotic harmonies for “Carrico Real” Sim flails on the wild “#15”. Did anything stick to the wall?
Tenor sax icon Ivo Perelman teams up with Chad Fowler on the rarely used stritch and saxello along with Reggie Workman/b and Andrew Cyrille/dr for something akin to a salute to Roland Kirk and vintage Charles Mingus. The saxes shriek on “Embracing The Unknown”, gurgle on the tar pitted “Soul Searching” and puff out random smoke signals on “Self-Reflection”. Workman gets into a high pitch for “Introspection” and is elastic on Self-Fulfillment” before everyone gets stuck in a Neopolitan traffic jam on “Self-Contemplation”. Where’s the traffic cop.