Grilling jazz that uses prog/post-rock tropes to add grandeur to the otherwise haunting atmosphere. It's a disjointed grandeur, however, as the at-times atonal sax plays the role usually devolved to vocals. Plus, the band does not hesitate to jump from relaxing landscapes to frenzied panoramas, fusing diverse musical elements - dub, psych rock - within a jazz template. For a jazz album, this one is quite diverse: it is free-flowing enough to be labeled as avant/free jazz, but the rhythm section is unmistakably bebop, and the varied soundscapes would guarantee a "fusion" tag. An enormous album that manages to successfully pull out many different atmospheres in less than 40 minutes.
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