What Brian Morton wrote in the notes inside the booklet of the cd is true, this is utopian music, but I don't agree completely on the fact there's a juxtaposition of cultures, sometimes you have that kind of tension but just every once in a while. This' one of those works that makes you think jazz is not dead yet and there's hope for what looked like a dead end street. I know the jazz label is a bit reductive for this release so let's say we're in front of one of those rare blends were you find jazz mixed with contemporary classic music together. The piano and the saxophone characterize most of the features of this face, but the other two elements of this four-piece don't act like com-primaries since their effort in most of the tracks ends being really discrete but considerably important. A good example of the peculiar sound of this line-up could be represented by "Two Block East" where you have a free jazz horn and drum section fighting a body to body fight with a scary piano. But that's one of the "loud" tracks, when playing quiet this quintet opts doubtlessly for transfiguration and the abstract cover fits really well with the music. Even if they play some electro-acoustic parts in most of the tracks the sound is not made out of strangulated, un-played notes or whatever. The result is odd but just for the phrases they use and for the resulting dialogue. Even if it has its own personalities, this band is surprisingly heterogeneous, which if taken by itself it's a result. An odd but catchy record, modern but still reinterpreting tradition in its own way, abstract but still music from the planet earth. It's rare to offer something so interesting in some genres, this one of those records that shows there's a light at the end of the jazz-tunnel.