Album Notes

For a while now Benn's been talking about this sound he's had in his head. Two, maybe three horns, two percussionists, acoustic bass. So when he told me he was putting this session together with some of his favorite players, I was pumped. And I was right to be. From the opening bars of the first tune, Kandahar, the whole band simmers. By the time the track Hermeto's Hacienda hit me with Pablo's soaring flute, Benn's roaring tenor and Nolan Shaheed's muscular trumpet dueling it out over the indendiary percussion I was gone. Fiery rumbas, haunting ballads, every cut on this record soars with imagination and the sparkling chops of inspired musicians playing at the height of their considerable powers. This is a record that goes to the top of the pile and stays there. Vince DiPersio June 6, 2009