Eberhard Weber played over a thousand concerts with the Jan Garbarek group before suffering a stroke from which we all hope he will eventually make a full recovery. Meanwhile, he has come up with this interesting project, described as ‘a live album with a difference’. Taken from 12 concert recordings with Garbarek at locations from Amsterdam to Santiago between 1990 and 2007, his extended solo bass features with the group have been extracted and “reworked into a unique album with its own sense of flow.” For the needs of the album we learn that “pragmatic ‘transitional’ elements were eliminated, replaced by ‘aphorisms, small surprises and colours with the addition of other instruments’.” Those additions are Jan Garbarek saxophone overdubs on ‘Amsterdam’ and ‘Tübingen’ and drum and percussion overdubs by Michael Di Pasqua (a member of Garbarek's group in the early-1980s that recorded albums such as Wayfarer at a time when Bill Frisell was a member of the band), on ‘Bochum’ and ‘Lazise’, while a Garbarek flute solo on ‘Bath’ is from back in the day. Weber has added keyboard textures where appropriate and what emerges is a valuable project, in many ways an anthology of Weber's solo work with Garbarek. It underlines what a remarkable virtuoso Weber was; always extraordinary, always challenging the temporal limits of his electric upright bass to “present sounds whereby virtually no one would think they came from that deep, low instrument.