This review appeared in a the Sept 12, 2008 issue of the Downtown Music Gallery newsletter.
“Featuring Jacob Wick on trumpet and Andrew Greenwald on percussion. I don’t know Jacob Wick very well except that he is friends with our new employee Joe Merolla and both young men work down the block at Think Coffee. This disc begins with a long unnamed piece that features a couple of layers of extraordinary twisted trumpet weirdness and sizzling percussion underneath. If I didn’t know better I would think that this was one of those heavy cats like Nate Wooley or Axel Dorner. The percussion swirls out like the wind rustling some tree branches and Jacob excells at that tea kettle-like steam sound or a balloon letting out air. It is often difficult to tell what instruments these cats are playing since we rarely hear any normal trumpet or percussion sounds. Who is playing which sound? It doesn’t really matter if the results are this fascinating. I dig the way this is recorded, cleanly, with extreme attention to detail. Is someone bowing a cymbal? Is that the radiator hissing? Just what is going on here my neighbors might be saying. Again, it doesn’t really matter when the sounds are this enchanting.” – Bruce Lee Gallanter
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