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Hm, you gotta like avante garde or get lost on this one. It's like a ball of string - it looks messy, but you know that it's one continuous piece of string, and you can clearly see each end - all you gotta do is unravel it.

Django Bates guests on this one, and he brings some good old british eccentricity with him. Each piece here is a fully relaized peice of improvisation that has an internal logic that it took me a time to figure out. The track lengths allow you plenty opf time to do it - track 1 is 21 minutes, track 2 17 minutes and track three 38 minutes. Three tacks, but no shortage of music then!

This is wild - yet at time restrained music. Beauty in its unpredictability. Get it and play it many times, when the gates open, you get immersed in some wonderful interplay.

This is the best recording of Marc Ducret I've ever heard. He opens "It Could Have Been A Lot Worse" with some delicate Derek Bailey-esque solo guitar before roaring into Sonny Sharrock territory; all of his parts, whether as soloist or part of the ensemble, are great. And Bobby Previte really tears up the drums; his style on this recording reminds me of Buddy Rich, Billy Martin, and Jim Black - very animated and dead-on precise. The material is good, the band is tighter than a banjo string, and there's a lot of enthusiasm in the performance; Tim Berne's solo about 10 minutes into the first track is one of his most scorching. Well-recorded and well-played.

Marc Ducret opens this album with some slide guitar - the likes I've never heard before. After a minute and a half (or so) horns come in and then Bobby Previte happens. The entire band then begins playing a melody that seems to have no start and no end - in a time signature that seems to be form another planet. Oh, it's so lovely. Why spoil the CD with labels of Avant Gard, etc. It's new and fresh - that much is without doubt!

Musicianship is stunning on all levels as are the compositions. A few brief moments of burst I'm not sure I get but on the whole a grand experience. Gentleman, I'm quite moved. One must respect this type of recording - as a musician especially. Enjoy! If you like this album get "Fractured Fairy Tales" - It may even be (dare I say it?) better?