Empty Cage Quartet

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Old Ladies 00:00 Tools
Feerdom Is on the March 00:00 Tools
The Power of the Great 00:00 Tools
Tzolkien 2+9 00:00 Tools
Aurobindo 00:00 Tools
We Are All Tomorrow's Food 00:00 Tools
Again a Gun Again a Gun Again a Gun 00:00 Tools
Gravity: Sections 1-3 00:00 Tools
Beedie and Bob 00:00 Tools
Steps of the Ordinarily Unordinary 00:00 Tools
Through the Doorways of Escape Come the Footsteps of Capture 00:00 Tools
Don't Hesitate To Change Your Mind 00:00 Tools
The Illusion of Transparency 00:00 Tools
Tzolkien 3+6+7 00:00 Tools
Gravity: Sections 5-7 00:00 Tools
Tzolkien 1+13 00:00 Tools
Gravity: Section 4 00:00 Tools
Gravity: Sections 9-11 00:00 Tools
Tzolkien 4+5+12 00:00 Tools
Peace 00:00 Tools
Gravity: Section 8 00:00 Tools
Presence that Time Diminishes 00:00 Tools
Joyous Lake 00:00 Tools
Gravity: Sections 4 00:00 Tools
Taming Power of the Great 00:00 Tools
Avoid the Obvious 00:00 Tools
Freedom is on the March 00:00 Tools
Oblige the Oblivious 00:00 Tools
Bubbler 00:00 Tools
Swan-Neck Deformity/The Empty Cage/Swim Swim Swim, Eat Eat Eat 00:00 Tools
And Who Is Not Small/Function-3 00:00 Tools
Gravity: Sections 8 00:00 Tools
Attack of the Eye People/Who Are They If We Are Them?/The Mactav 00:00 Tools
Attack Of The Eye People, Who Are They If We Are Them? 00:00 Tools
Gravity Part II 00:00 Tools
Tzolkien [1.13] 00:00 Tools
And Who Is Not Small, Function-3 00:00 Tools
Gravity Part I 00:00 Tools
Tzolkien [2.9] 00:00 Tools
Tzolkien [3.6.7] 00:00 Tools
Swan-Neck Deformity, The Empty Cage, Swim Swim Swim, Eat Eat Eat 00:00 Tools
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The Empty Cage Quartet consists of four musicians — saxophonist Jason Mears, trumpeter Kris Tiner, percussionist Paul Kikuchi and bassist Ivan Johnson — who have been praised consistently by critics as one of the most powerful and substantial new jazz groups to emerge from the American West Coast. Recorded during a hot summer in Los Angeles, Stratostrophic, their first record on Clean Feed, is a fiery set of original compositions that ranges from shuffle swing to free jazz blowouts, minimalist percussion loops to complex modernist gestures, funky stomps, odd-meter marches, robotic grooves, heavy rock, and nearly everything in between. The music is vigorous and methodic yet tender and reflective, dead-serious yet open to the occasional wry, sideways irony. As Wadada Leo Smith expresses in his liner notes, these young musicians are certainly on a path “to reach the whole truth of a creative music”. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.