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Mine arrived last week, I've been pleasantly surprised by it. I tend to favour TM's improv sides with drummers (Lost to the City, Not Me, this years great Comes Through in the Call Hold etc) as, to my mind, his principle strength as an improviser is textural. On occasion I find his approach too myopic to be truly dialectic when playing with 'melody' instruments, however when playing in a context with people with similar agendas it works really well.
The aforementioned Comes Through in the Call Hold surprised me with a deftness of approach to the duo playing, something carried over onto this record. I feared the worst during the opening moments as T runs through his different distortions but, that aside, the whole thing is balanced & responsive - a genuine conversation between the pair, and stands alongside the better things in TM's improvised discography. IMHO of course.
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