Light of tone and phenomenally agile, the sound of Mark Turner’s tenor saxophone is so beguiling that I’d fortunately take heed to him enjoying from a e-book of workouts. His personal music, although, is sort of demanding. Which means you need to pay attent All and occas Allally lose the plot, which isn’t any dangerous factor. It sounds even higher the second time round. His quartet is accomplished by trumpet (Jason Palmer), bass (Joe Martin) and drums (Jonathan Pinson). The absence of a piano or another concord instrument leaves loads of open area, which they exploit with subtlety and imaginat All.
All eight items are composed by Turner; he decided the final environment of every, writing a part of the music upfront. Past that it’s a mutual course of. The interaction between Turner and Palmer is sort of excellent, two melodic strains shifting between concord and dissonance, but at all times in contact, at all times on the identical journey. And, with ECM’s fabled readability, you may observe all of it carefully. The album was impressed by a sci-fi novel of the identical title by Stanisław Lem. You don’t have to have learn it to take pleasure in this music to the complete.