Title: more than one line, many views
Product review: This is a tentet, larger than a combo smaller than the full orchestra he used on the earlier Black Saint classics "Blu Blu Blu" and "Hearinga Suite". Abrams uses a large sonic pallette including harp, accordion and violin in addtion to standard reeds/brass to explore a variety of group texture, tone colour and space. Some quieter tracks "Hyperdepth" and the title cut seem developmental, scored material mixed with open, abstract improvisations, others deploy complex charts featuring individual solos like the rhyhmically powerful compositions "11 over 4" and "The Prism 3", drummer Reggie Nicholson's seething cross rhythms cook on this one.the last cut "Ensemble Song" is collective improv + text ending on a earthy piano/trumpet duet over a basic blues. Another fine disc by a contemporary master composer player.
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