“The presence of a Western-chordal instrument here is due to guitarist Jeff Parker. Wong and Aoki join in with him and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee to present a quartet at the other end of the spectrum from Miyumi's ( Live In Poland ) spectacle: like delicate art prints, or haikus, 3 Big Guys +1's 17 short tracks showcase Wong's floating melodic-linear thoughts and the fleeter improvs they inspire, making a scrapbook of riches. Parker's shimmer-ringing sound, while far from Derek Bailey's, does evoke the same floating-free-of tonal matrices or metronomic grooves, even as it dances and darts in and out of them. It effects thus a fitting double duty between Wong's fellow single-line voice (often in unison) and piano-like comp to Kavee's and Aoki's riverbedrock patterns usually roiling at twice the speed or faster than the others.”- from Michael Heffley’s review at Amazon

Released January 1, 2009