You best be attentive, and have quick ears, to glean Cottontail from this, or Moody's Mood For Love, or Angel Eyes. They are there, in effect as the base for a stew of avant-garde jazz, electronica, soul-inflected vocals and hip-hop recitations, turntables and bass beats. Byard Lancaster on saxes and flute and Graham Haynes on cornet and flugelhorn season it with some electric Miles-, Head Hunters-, Weather Report-reminiscent horn work. What I really dig, however, is the funktastic organ playing of AACM veteran Amina Claudine Myers.
From the mind of Bill Laswell, and certainly an example of his evolutionary concept collision music, which brings together genre-crossing collections of musicians to see what happens. What happens in this case is different, but cool I think. Robert Gardiner calls it "strikingly new and yet lovingly tied to the past" in his liner notes and I'd says that's about right.
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