A wildly energetic and talented improvisation group whose members are
Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and banjo, Paul Hoakin playing contrabass, bass and E-flat clarinets, and
Leslie Ross on bassoon, Chinese shawms, and musette. My favorite things out of the 19 generous offerings: the winsome, highly interpersonal "windows," the wacky "bang: 448 - 2345" with its intoxicated moments of nostalgia, the really noisy (we're talking New Year's here), brief selection entitled "some other things you are" and its companion pieces "none of the things you are" and "more things you are" (a figure like the "uh-huh" inflection accompanied by some deep snoring). ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny