soulful catchy toe tapping quarted, led by stellar bassist stephen crump. here is the obligitory video on the making of the album. here are a few words from daily bandcamp on the record. 

in central javanese gamelan, there is a technique called "mlesed" used with the two-stringed rebab instrument. essentially this entails bending of notes to make them sharper or flatter than notes played by all other instruments in the rest of the song. the result creates a plaintive feel in the music. i suspect that crump is doing something similar here, and this is especially evident on the wonderful second cut. also, dig the way drummer tyshawn sorey swings. he makes it sound so effortless and fluid. and yet, when you tap your finger on your steering wheel, focusing in on his hi-hat hits as he keeps time, your might go slackjawed. 

here's matt mitchell nailing the description: "[Tyshawn] is playing time of various kinds, but even when it’s more or less ‘jazz swing,’ if you really listen you’ll hear all this other totally bizarre shit. You can zone in: It’s like those ‘powers of 10’ videos where it starts off in space and it moves in by powers of 10 and you’re gradually down to the subatomic level and then you zoom back out. If you do that with Tyshawn’s playing your perspective is like, ‘Holy shit, what is he doing?’ But then you zoom back out and it totally serves the music. … You’re sometimes distracted from how insane some of the things he’s playing are because of how beautiful it sounds.”

_alibi