You know you are in for a treat when the lineup of the group is Markus Reuter, Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn. You can also figure that the music will be along the lines of King Crimson and Stick Men. Well, this double CD set delivers on the promise that the lineup makes. This isn't exactly the kind of music that works well with track by track reviews, but that's how we do them at Music Street Journal. Suffice it to say this is instrumental music based around Warr and touch guitars with percussion and other elements in the mix. It's always varied and dynamic. It's also consistently compelling.

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They open things with a nearly 15-minute track. Percussion gets it going. Then the whole thing powers into some smoking hot Crimsonian jamming. This works through a number of twists and turns. It's heavy, rather dark sounding and so cool. There are some synthetic vocals, but otherwise it's purely instrumental.

Intriguing melodic instrumental interplay is the idea as this gets going. It's mellower than some of the rest of the music here. It's also quite effective and interesting. There is a percussion section that's much more energized later. It gets back to the somewhat subdued stuff from there. It turns to decidedly trippy, space type sounds further down the road.