• DIGIPACK EDITION

We listen to them – and I guarantee you will – with frequent pleasure in the same way that we turn to Parker, to Mozart, even, and to Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry, because they clear away the plaque of predictability that threatens our aesthetic heartbeat. Every time I have listened to this music, it provides a different spin on itself, not because it is densely layered and complex, but because it deals with musical fundamentals in an engaged and humane manner. And that’s the other thing about it: these guys may go out under an enigmatic group name, but they come across as personalities, very different, possibly sometimes even contentious, but absolutely united in purpose.

PERSONNEL:

Marco von Orelli - (trumpet)
Tommy Meier - (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet)
Luca Sisera - (double bass)
Sheldon Suter - (drums)

Recorded February 22–24, 2023, RSI, Studio 2, Lugano-Besso;

TRACKS:

01 Marsala’s Strandgut
02 Desert Bird
03 Totem
04 Ogoni
05 Before And The Ghost Dance
06 Fate
07 The Forest People
08 Split Master
09 She Always Takes Us Back