Live, through-composed group improvisation - in this first ever meeting as an ensemble - for Haynes’ Bucknell University faculty jazz recital, as if laying down, stargazing...

Hush, mystery, uncertain atmosphere, wood rustling, skins, eventually a voice... of a mystical beauty... Another spontaneous earthen cry for sustainably sane global environmental policy and action.

Trusted Earthen Resources Relished Asphyxiating
Treasured Ecology Ravaged Ransomed Alone
Alive Renewable Reliable Extraordinary Taxed
Abundant Resilient Radiant Ecosystem Trying

Phil Haynes is a 25-year NYC veteran drummer, composer and bandleader of singular voice and stirring stylistic range, from the innovative avant-garde to romantic ballads, Americana, ambient and adventurous modern jazz classics.

1. Moonrise / Aurora / Starlit / Meteor [19:17]
2. Vision Quest / Three Visitors [17:43]
3. Skylark [9:53]
4. Borealis / Showers / Dreams / Dawn [15:14]

This quite mesmerizing new recording opens on the ethereal growth, at first, then more emboldened and sculpted, latterly confidently strident four-part, twenty minute Moonrise / Aurora / Starlit / Meteor and that is in turn backed seamlessly by the hauntingly enriched, latterly organically pulsing, quaveringly alluring two-part, 17-minute Vision Quest / Three Visitors, then we get the rhythmically melodious Skylark, the set rounding out on the atmospherically-charged Clarabella, coming to a close on some affectingly jagged notes, interspersed with moments of a stoic nature and dreamlike sequences that amiably blend together for the four-part, fifteen minute Borealis / Showers / Dreams / Dawn.

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