Full
speed ahead! That’s the rate at which alto saxophonist and Chicago native
Matana Roberts and her extraordinary band push forward into uncharted sonic
terrain. It’s not like we haven’t heard post-bop and free jazz in the same
molds that Roberts, bassist Josh Abrams, drummer Frank Rosaly and Tortoise
guitarist Jeff Parker explore here, but the quartet bends, warps and distorts
the music’s existing parameters so that it sounds fundamentally altered on a
microscopic level—and thus totally fresh. Meanwhile, Roberts’ radiance simply
burns through the grooves, and the band keeps pace with equal determination and
drive.
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