Here are two more excellent additions to the Hat Art catalog. I am impressed with the clarity of vision and execution on both records, even though many of the players are new to me. I can't hear the confusion referred to in the title and notes for Lloyd's release. Indeed the music moves with amazingly convincing logic that one associates with the very best.
The structures themselves are quite varied, from rhythmic themes to cubist bop lines to sheer sound, but they always unfold at a perfect pace, moving through the solos in what seems the only sequence possible, and ending with extraordinary grace. If the way these guys move in and out of time and in and out of improvisation so seamlessly bespeaks confusion, then I'm for it. Law and Lloyd both evoke a lot of good people, from Cecil taylor, Keith Tippett, and Messiaen or Boulez to Evan Parker, Tony Braxton and Jimmy Lyons, but not in an overly derivative way. Wells and Sanders are both incredibly strong and individualistic players. This is powerful and, at times, magical stuff.
Duck Baker Downbeat Magazine, USA July 1997