Josephson / Leandre / Smith / Blume

Josephson / Leandre / Smith / Blume: Cruxes

by Nic Jones
March 7, 2008

Here's music the realization of truly collective endeavor. Each of the participants is acutely aware of the needs and demands of the moment, and the music they fashion is accordingly free of overt precedents at the same time as it works the seam of free improvisation in trenchant fashion.

The nature of the forces deployed Aurora Josephson's voice, two basses and drums--perhaps pejoratively focuses the attention on the first of these, but Josephson is astute enough to know that non-verbal ...