Scandinavia embraced Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman while America still shunned them.
Alan Wilkinson, punchy prize-fighting saxophonist of the London free improvisation scene, follows his spiritual forebears North to record, at last, with three long-time Norwegian collaborators.
The guitarist Kim Johannesen’s dextrous velocity rings exhibitionistic alarms, but it’s allied to a heroic push to the extremities, sympathetically ensnared by Dag Eric Knedal Andersen’s wild off-beats and Ola Høyer’s volcanically boiling bass.
Wilkinson huffs and puffs and blows their house down, finally spitting out the read to break into his trademark ecstatic babbling.
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