Each musician follows a diagrammatic chart which resembles a board game, ultimately choosing the path and the melody that is created, causing random rhythmic coordination between people and an indeterminate flow between harmony and dissonance. The charts progressively get more chaotic and end in a free group improvisation, and a short restating of the melody in a final diagrammatic chart.
Total mastery of patience, time, and drama create a constantly engaging journey that never gets tiresome or same-y: in fact the harder you listen the better it gets! Somehow Sorey et al. find a way to combine the deep listening and spontaneous interaction of the best jazz with the sense of every tone and sound being worth a universe of listening, which could be equally from Cage and Feldman or the accompaniment to an ancient ritual.
The recording/engineering is absolutely perfect as well. Giles
Thanks to AUM Fidelity and everyone involved, for bringing this recording forward.
A powerful performance.
Beautiful capture.
.....And thanks for including all scans and liner notes! jeffrey maurer