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It is a testament to the abilities of both musicians that they are able to create incredibly beautiful, deeply textured, and widely varied music that is, for the most part, totally improvised. DeJohnette’s ballad, “Song for World Forgiveness” that ends the disc has a pre-arranged structure, but the rest is pretty freely improvised. It is stunning how the opening track, the 15 minute-plus “Mysterium” grows and builds in an organic fashion toward a climax that never gets out of control or turns into a squawkfest. The piece, centered on a bass line created by DeJohnette using an electronic drum and a drone chord created by Surman, allows DeJohnette to provide low-key percussion with occasional punctuating outbursts while Surman dances and capers around the mode suggested by the drone & bass line. At times “Mysterium” sounds a bit like a raga or a Middle Eastern improvisation, at others it is more like a mediaeval English folk tune. When it ends you may well feel you are “coming back” from somewhere outside your body, and you certainly won’t think you’ve been listening for 15 minutes, so interesting is the music created by these two masters...http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/surmanjohn-invisible
Silversun Pickups - Swoon (2009)Slush, are you familiar with this band? I think it's up your alley.
