An infernal jazz album, deeply evocative, opening with flashes of colorful tones against black, with repeated, ever-changing riffs licking like flames in the night, ringing modern and classic and familiar and mysterious. The inexorable, swampy, slinking backdrop only falls during the third of the suite's four tracks, which opens up into bare melody and well-wielded silence, whipping flamenco flair onto the fire. The players in place, the final sidelong track puts them to work, weaving themes into knots.
A complex, difficult, accessible album, far more satisfying as an unknowable whole than as any of its irrepressible parts 3.5/5
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