One of the grandest jazz albums I’ve heard in a while! This whole album feels like a long lost soundtrack to an old fantasy/action movie, yet it retains a lot of unique twists and turns to the instrumentation nonetheless. Enjoyed this quite a bit!

Standout: Breath and Pipes
Favs: Distant radio transmission, Splatter
Least fav: n/a

deknalis

Confrontationally, challengingly dissonant and esoteric almost to the point of self-parody. In other words, really great. Even in its most cacophonous moments, it never fully loses a sense of energy and atmosphere building. Breath and Pipes in particular cycles through so many moods and tones over the course of 48 minutes, constantly under threat of collapse but never succumbing to it.

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