Guitarist Derek Bailey teams with drummer Sabu Toyozumi for a 1987 gig in Japan. The four songs contain two marathon pieces, a 27 minute free from drum avalanche of “Fukuoka IMA House” and the guitar picking and strumming abstraction of “My Jimmy”. Asian harmonies are bent and picked on Bailey’s solo “Diaphragm” and his guitar twangs over the rumble of “Relux or Not Talking”. Thunder and lightning.
Albert Beger/ts-perc, Ziv Taubenfeld/bcl-perc, Shay Hazn/b-guimbri and Hamid Drake/dr are recorded in 2023 for four ravenous themes. Sounds 
like a dog puling on a rope in a tug of war surrounds the plucked bass on “The Steamer” and “A question of Universality” with some Middle Eastern harmonies supplied by the reeds in a shrill “ Into The Horzon”. The reeds delve into dark magma on “Astra Visit” with the ears exhausted from the shrill intensity. A Tsunami of waves.
Bassoonist Karen Borca is recorded at both the 1998 Third 
Annual Vision Festival and the 2005 Vision Festival with a mix and match team of Rob Brown/as, William Parker-Reggie Workman-Todd Nicholson/b and Paul Murphy-Susie Ibarra-Newman Taylor-Baker/dr. The 24 minute “45 Hours/New Pieces” is a dark and moody affair feature some overlong bass and drum solos, while “Cambiar” is a sing songy affair”. Askance harmonies a la Ornette Coleman are supplied by Brown and Borca on “ Something” and the one can get lost in the weeds of reeds on “Good News Blues”. 20/40 vision.
Playing clarinet and mostly tenor sax, Kalaparusha Maruice Mcintyre joins forces with Malachi Thompson/tp, Milton Suggs/eg and Alvin Fielder/dr for three improvs from 1975. If the three “Unidentified Title” tunes from 14, 16 and 12.5 minutes don’t even deserve a title, why should we take in the shrill trumpet and tenor of the first, the askance and splattering harmonies of the second, and the scramble of notes on the third? To fail to plan is to plan to fail.
Playing Tenor sax and tarogato, Peter Brotzman joins with Toshinori Kono ontrumpet and electronics as well as drummer Sabu Toyozumi for three free improves. Brotzman goes in to subtones on “Memories of WUPPERTAL” while shrill in the upper stratosphere on the flailing “To The Nature from the Heat”. Kondo adds high pitched trumpet and electronics to the wailing and flailing marathon of “First Monorail”, with all of the wise passengers jumping off before the final crash. A missing link.