The genesis of this first-meeting free jazz power trio is in the 2011 Moers festival. Hertenstein and Tang performed there together with the group Torn and the much recorded saxophonist Jon Irabagon played a trio gig with Peter Brendler and Barry Altschul on bass and drums – their album Doxy was a 70-minute blast on the Sonny Rollins tune of the same name. A week later, Hertenstein, Tang and Irabagon recorded this largely through-improvised set – the bustling ‘Panic Ballad’, and spacious ‘Ballad for Paul and Poo’, were pre-composed sketches by drummer Hertenstein. Bass and drums have a good working relationship and set up assorted well-worked rattles, riffs and moods, and Irabagon comes up with a nice angular line on ‘Rotten Strawberry’. Elsewhere, the saxophonist delivers high-energy rampage, adds a broad palette of breaths, phonics and firmly struck pads and keeps his impressive conventional technique firmly in check – he plays both with Kenny Wheeler and The Hot Club of Chicago. A solid release, that occasionally catches fire, but is well within the routines of European free jazz.