Translated from Italian to English using Google Translate

There `those who say that the vanguard is already encoded with a formula or just makes noise, but in the end always check some engraving refute opinions arising from the inability to listen to proposals like this.

This is a quartet around Tom Abbs, alternating between double bass, cello and trumpet, Brian Settles there to accompany him on tenor and the soprano and the flute, Jean Cook on violin and Chad Taylor on drums.

It is a fragmented disk with eighteen tracks from the various candidates are having the characteristic of a suite with an internal logic compelling. You go in a free, each song performed in its brevity, however, that leaves the impression of incompleteness or free trials left on the streets for lack of next idea which ignites the story. Minimalist architecture that operates outside of the songs themselves, because then they, together, seem to represent a complete suite, where the solos of individual or collective improvisations tight logic of buying a whole.

Abbs behind the matter and do not let boil forms, even when temperature increases, the escaping of hand. The doleful Settles saxophone and strings of the violin of Jean Cook along with rhythms phased by the battery form a whole which has assimilated the lessons of the past and still find new spaces for the vanguard of today.

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