Guitarist/composer Ian Wardenski creates a gumbo of exotic mixes on this album with the flexible team of Mercedes Beckman/as, Jerry Ascione/p, Amy Shook/b, Frank Russo/dr and Tamara Tucker/voc. What makes this album unique is the use of Tucker, whose high pitched operatic voice creates a wide variety of moods, as on the Wagnerian title piece, the quirky “Matching Energies Modulus I” or the King Crimsonish “Matching Energies Modulus III”. Wardenski sears like Robert Fripp through the tricky and intricate lines laid down by Russo and Shook on “C Centric” and Beckman bops through “Curiosity” and the 21st Century Schizoid “Before Long”. Blue tones veer through “Necessity Needs Another Matter” and the team with Tucker is sleek on the prismatic “5:02 On Monday”. The Wagnerian court of the Crimson King.