Recorded when
the Art Ensemble of Chicago was in Paris and between drummers (
Don Moye would not join up until 1970), this English imported LP has a continuous piece featuring trumpeter
Lester Bowie, reed players
Roscoe Mitchell and
Joseph Jarman and bassist
Malachi Favors all playing plenty of "little instruments" (which include various horns, gongs, logs, bells, sirens, whistles, steel drums, marimba, and banjo, among others) in addition to their mainstays. The episodic music continually holds one's interest, and overall, it makes a unified (if unpredictable) statement.