Stylistically landing in the AfroFuturistic domain Marcus Strickland here on various saxes and bass clarinet with a core band of keyboardist Mitch Henry, bassist Kyle Miles and drummer Charles Haynes featured guests are guitarist Lionel Loueke, singer Christie Dashiell on the Black Lives Matter influenced 'Matter' and rapper Ras Stimulant. Lacking in great tunes I think it's fair to say and yet Strickland is dynamic as ever when he wails on 'Matter'. Best tunes I think are when Strickland chooses soprano sax on 'You and I, An Anomaly' his essential melodicism coming through and again later on 'Joy For Jupiter'. But there isn't a huge amount of response in the overall band sound and the overdubbed reedy riffing while interesting doesn't intertwine enough with the rhythm section. Strickland is a fine player live but on record hear him far more interestingly at the moment with Christian McBride's New Jawn on the latest track 'Head Bedlam.'
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