This is an exceptional meeting of David Murray with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love. In 2019 they toured Europe twice, using older and brand new compositions by Murray, and also artists like Yusef Lateef, Butch Morris and even Aretha Franklin, as starting points of ferocious improvisations. Now they bring brand new material, written by all three musicians.

Murray’s strident blast struck the match to light the fire. Håker Flaten pounded his resoundingly resonant bass and Nilssen-Love flipped from handwork on congas to intensely percussive play on cymbals and skins to set the course for a profoundly inventive and energetic journey.

At the core of Murray’s playing was his natural ability to move from a brightly melodic figure to raw, jagged explosions of notes that would flow with practiced ease and suddenly skid and stutter, honk and squawk to punctuate and rip apart a rhythmic statement. (…) .
The thunderous rhythm section reinforced Murray’s unswerving determination as he pinpointed those moments of change fundamental to the trio’s inventive dialogue. (Geoff Winston, UK jazznews)