Bassist-bandleader-composer Moffett has been pleasingly eclectic throughout an eventful career. Brilliant work with the likes of Ornette Coleman dovetailed with solo albums that continuously straddled a wide variety of styles to varying degrees of success. This latest offering is placed firmly under the banner of ‘uplifting’ music, and there is no mistaking the anthemic, folkish, sometimes mildly Celtic quality of the material. The major problem is that the melodies mostly have a sentimentalised, almost over-emoted feel to them and do not generate the requisite feeling to match the stated message. Furthermore, Moffett's flawless fretless is often recorded with too much top-end and reverb to take it dangerously close to glassy ‘New Age’ territory, and there is not enough bite in the rest of the rhythm section to counteract this. Some of the themes may have acquired more character had they been brought to life on the double-bass, an instrument of which Moffett has a superlative command. Violinist Scott Tixier is a very good player, but he's too far down in the mix to make an impact. Things start to come alive towards the end of the session with a snappy, hard-swinging number called ‘Netting’, which shows the undoubted potential of a group in which the whole is not greater than the sum of the admittedly interesting parts.