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Featuring a stellar cast of musicians, Brennan merges his effusive sound with a set of thematic compositions that takes classic free jazz concepts and stretch them out with fantastic imagination. – Paul Acquaro, The Free Jazz Collective

Patrick Brennan expands upon compositional “what ifs” and the plasticities of rhythm section dynamics, working a base material of melodically encoded polyrhythmic cells and developing it in multiple directions. On the shoulders of giants like Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Henry Threadgill and others, he constructs specific sonic and conceptual environments for collective improvisation, a kind of sonic lego from pieces that can be combined in infinite ways. – António Branco, Jazz pt

Patrick Brennan - composition & saxophone

Hilliard Greene - contrabass

Jason Kao Hwang - viola

Michael T.A. Thompson - trap drums

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