When I listen back to the music perhaps the one feeling I get throughout all of the pieces is best expressed by the title of track number four, "Inquiétante Familiarité". This phrase refers to the phenomenon that Freud described as a "strange nearness" (or "unheimlich" in the German). A strange familiarity or perhaps a familiar strangeness. Improvisation often has this quality for me. Taking what you know into the unknown ... making the familiar unfamiliar ... bringing the unfamiliar near ... seeing things as if for the first time ... — Ellery Eskelin
ARTISTS Ellery Eskelin (tenor sax); Mat Maneri (viola); Erik Friedlander (cello); Mark Dresser (bass); Matt Moran (vibraphone)