Deface The Currency: CD BF30 placing the album at a

placing the album at a pivotal moment in his late-1950s trajectory

Pianist Chick Corea makes one of his earliest appearances on record here along with drummer Al Foster

Carlos “Carly” Maldonado and Victor Pablo Garcia Gaetan

effortlessly blending elements of jazz

and holiday nostalgia

Deface The Currency: CD BF30 placing the album at aDeface the Currency is the second collaboration between The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis. Recorded immediately upon return from a joyous European tour, engineer Don Godwin captured the sound of what the forge of 150 shows in a year can do to a band. It is quite simply a huge change. In energy, in writing, in sound. The band has become a unit designed to destroy on stage, and this record is expansive, ambitious, and spontaneous. Full of complex