Roscoe Mitchell & Kikanju Baku – Evolutionary Events Equalizers It's the yang to the

It's the yang to the yin that was Pick Me Up Off The Floor

timbres mattering as much or even more than the pitches chosen in the heat of improvisation— the gestural shapes of the players’ lines and the way they intertwine create complex textures that reach our brains on both emotional and abstract levels that are greater than the sum of their parts

He shared in the trio's vision to record an album awash in sprawling sound-scapes

Instead of trying to be a complete instrument

“of refracted boundary points as venom

Roscoe Mitchell & Kikanju Baku – Evolutionary Events Equalizers It's the yang to theEvolutionary Events is available, but barely. Issued on Bakus Ethnicity Against the Error label, it comes only in cassette format with only 187 copies made. A recording of a still vital octogenarian avant garde legend chopping it up with a singularly ace drummer who handily masters improvised music of any kind is an document well worth seeking out.