Unstable Ensemble
17 Ways
FV5 CD
Debut from Unstable Ensemble. Hear where it all started. This is spacious, avant jazz in the realms of Spontaneous Music Ensemble that carries frictional shards sharp enough to shave your globe off yee shoulders and across the valley. Highly tempered and action packed with a sniff of underbelly, Parker, Bailey, and van Halen. The unstable, multi-state make up is: Jason Bivins (electric guitar), Marty Belcher (soprano saxophone), Joe Donnelly (baritone saxophone), Matt Griffin (drums) and Richard Patterson (flute, vocalization). A continuing force to be reckoned with.
"With its raw, sometimes cloudy sonics (which work to its advantage, actually), there's a feel at times akin to Albert Ayler's 'New York Eye and Ear Control.' At other times the abstraction recalls the wonderful disorientation fond on Sun Ra's 1970 'The Solar Myth Approach.'" -- Cadence
"Charles Mingus and Paul Klee fighting a bear." -- Ptolemaic Terrascope
Released August 27, 2001
