"More politics here (see also Ars Sonoris), and Weston is a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause. None of this shows in the music, which is instrumental. I limit myself to the music. If you read these pages for quite a while, you may have encountered Matt Weston's name before. Weston may use the word 'jazz' in his information, but rest assured, I think it's far from. Weston is a drummer, setting up shop whenever there is space to set up drum kits and it's all about site-specific sonorities, how sound bounces around in a space. These spaces might be 'real' or "artificially constructed environments". Recordings are made, and once back home, these recordings become part of the composition. All of this results in something that has very little to do with percussion music as such. Sure, there is a lot of percussion at times (in 'Here They Come Spinning Out Of The Turn', for instance), but there is also so much more than percussion. I still am clueless about what kind of processing devices he uses, if any at all, other than multi-track recordings. As before, it reminds me of musique concrète, and Weston does a great job. I can easily say I am a fan. He moves his music way beyond the boundaries of jazz or improvisation. Even if the mentioned 'Here They Come Spinning Out Of The Turn' contains a lot of drum rolling, it ends with a fierce blast of machine-like drones. In other pieces, he uses the environment as an additional sound layer; for instance, in 'From The River To The Sea', it has that cavernous shopping mall quality, with some strange blowing of plastic pipes and the rumble of objects. In 'Burials To Understanding', with lots of heavily compressed tones, rapid editing, and synth tones (maybe!), reminded me of P16.D4, a group who similarly deconstructed their improvisations into compositions. Weston no doubt uses extensive techniques to extract sounds from his drum parts and goes further than many others in his field; so much is the variation in the material here. Each side is about 15-16 minutes long, and great material is carved into these grooves. Another excellent tour de force."-Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly