Spring Heel Jack & Wadada Leo Smith with Pat Thomas & Steve Noble – Hackney Road Electroacoustic / Abstract there's a sense of reaching

there's a sense of reaching inward

electric guitars and percussions spring up… Could the tragic climax have been possible without music

a free-associative dream in which wind and water take on mythical characteristics

We are listening then

And it a marvel of creative whackery that unfolds its charms like a glamorous stripper doing a matinee show at a well-lit coal mine

Spring Heel Jack & Wadada Leo Smith with Pat Thomas & Steve Noble – Hackney Road Electroacoustic / Abstract there's a sense of reaching"Brand new recordings by the electronic duo together with the great AACM trumpeter; joined by drummer Steve Noble and keyboardist Pat Thomas. A limited edition, in a coloured card sleeve, with old school clarifoil lamination." Treader, 2018