The quintet includes three of Chicago's brightest, most exciting improvisers. Guitarist Jeff Parker is one of the kingpins of the scene, traversing jazz, rock, experimental, dub, electronic, and improvised music worlds with astonishing grace. Imbued with a magnetic musicality and equipped with massive creative intellect, Parker's incisive guitar spurs Tortoise and Ken Vandermark's (((Powerhouse Sound))) with equal surety. Another Vandermark associate, saxophonist Dave Rempis, is also a central figure in Chicago, both as a bandleader/improvisor and as a presenter/promoter. His baritone and alto are fluid and fiery, an elemental force. The youngest Chicagoan in the fivesome is drummer Frank Rosaly, a glorious partner for Flaten who integrates the full range of percussion possibilities, from hardcore swing to pneumatic rock to non-metrical freeplay. From Norway, to complete the ensemble, Flaten invited violinist Ola Kvernberg, an adept and versatile voice and the perfect front-line complement to Rempis and Parker.
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