Port Huron Picnic

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Mats Gustafsson, soprano & baritone sax, flute, fluteophone; Kurt Newman, electric guitar; Mike Gennaro, drums, percussion. Recorded May 17, 1999 in Chicago. A flickering evanescent set featuring Swedish reed maestro Mats Gustaffson with the promising young Canadian duo of Gennaro and Newman also know as Wrist Error. The latter give creedence to the reality of a new improvisation scene in Toronto. There is an appreciation of space and listening that belies the relative youth of this trio. "This is music existing in a relatively steady state of density. It is leaning forward music. Its energy level somehow resists translation into volume or textual surliness. ...This isn’t a narrative or telling. It’s a sequence of events; you can narrate if you so desire."