A unique and very consistent album from four very strong musical personalities, four very rich musical careers, almost four generations of musicians

These four musicians have all played with each other before. Just to name a few: two albums in duo for Joe McPhee and Michael Bisio, in addition of appearing in different other bands; Mat Maneri and Fred Lonberg-Holm, also recorded as a duo; Fred Lonberg-Holm is part of Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III with Michael Zerang and both are also part of Peter Brötzman's Chicago Tentet; Joe McPhee is within Mat Maneri Quintet in the album 'Sustain'; Mat Maneri is within Michael Bisio's quartet on the album 'MBefore' and both are part of Matthew Shipp's trio Chamber Ensemble on 'The Gospel According to Matthew and Michael'...
So, no need to say that they were already very familiar to each other.
Almost four generations of musicians; four very strong musical personalities, four very rich musical careers and, above all, four musicians who know how much the confrontation of different ideas pushes music forward; and it is exactly what we had hoped from this band, that they find a common language richer than the sum of the individual languages of each of them, a coherent musical material that respect each personality without reducing the great diversity of their individual approaches. If there was no doubt at the outset that Joe McPhee, Mat Maneri, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Michael Bisio would be able to make a great recording, eventually, they have done much more, finding original forms and producing an album on which the diversity of the pieces in no way detracts from the cohesion of the whole - quite the opposite, in fact.

Track Listing

• Prelude
• We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (for Maya A)
• Singing Birds I
• Four Windows
• Low Seas
• New Forms, New Sounds
• Singing Birds Il
• Singing Birds III
• Singing Birds IV
• Singing Birds V
• Singing Birds VI
• Variations on a Theme

Additional Details

Label: RogueArt

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 58:05 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 08/08/25

UPC: 3760131271416