If ‘the cry’ is a much-used description of the magic of many improvising horn players, then this music makes a virtue of ‘the scream.’ From the opening section of the five-part suite of the title, Lowe and Joseph Jarman produce the kind of wails – caught somewhere between ecstasy and urgency – that simply burst out of silence like a thousand year old volcano. For sheer drama, the moment is hard to rival. As a tenor saxophonist, Lowe's hard, serrated attack and the power of his fortissimo notes enable him to easily sustain interest when playing unaccompanied but when he is joined by both the other horn and the primal, buzz saw bowing of Cheng, the results are head turning. While it is common to hear that “the avant-garde died with Coltrane,” this work, recorded some six years after his passing, makes the point that there were still musicians who played with the kind of undimmed fervour that defined the best of the energy players who looked to ‘the wise one’ for both musical and spiritual guidance.