Throughout the album, these three trajectories alternately collide and commingle. A groan fromdeep within the bell of jazz tenor Saxophone archetypes scrapes against laptop textures; the shimmers of directly excited piano strings hover about kindred digital specters; a double-tongued soprano phrase flutters in the grand decay of the piano. It is a mercurial dialogue in which voices rise and recede unexpectedly, fragments suddenly elongate into flowing verse and rapid-fire repartee abruptly atomizes. It is propelled by inscrutable impulses; unlike some long-observed forms of improvised music, where quiet murmurings groundswell as if on cue, and then ebb on schedule, these improvisations take shape in unexpected ways. The trio’s tactical stealth in this regard is often startling, even when the resulting music has subtle shadings. Bill Shoemaker · Liner Notes

Cover art: Malene Bach
Graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Liner notes: Bill Shoemaker

Recorded at Avatar Studio, NYC, Dec, 9, 2006 by Jamie Saft