In this trio, music manifests itself as a free circulation of streams of sounds and ideas, which once again – as is often the case in improvised music – with playful ebullience tells of the utopia of open individuality. The kind of ebullience which can only arise out of a determined and indefatigable commitment. If you haven't heard Laubrock live during the last couple of years, you're in for a revelation. Here, on tenor and soprano, she is writing what amount to new dialects, if not full-blown languages, for her instruments. The visceral low-register phrases evoking bar-walking tenor players from an earlier age, and the precisely articulated high harmonics, are present as before, as are more conventionally played passages. But they're joined by a raft of new sounds and textures, some caressing, others disturbing, lyrical dream weavings and rude awakenings, which turn the Saxophone inside out. To play like this requires wild imagination and extreme technical virtuosity, qualities Laubrock has in abundance.

Cover art: Malene Bach
Graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Liner notes: Harry Lachner
Photos: Cees van de Ven

Music by Ingrid Laubrock, Liam Noble, Tom Rainey. Recorded September 9, 2010 at Brooklyn Recording Studio by Andy Taub and Ben Liscio. Mixed by Katherine Miller, mastered by Andrew Tulloch, The Blue Studio, London