Travelers

"After two albums with the cooperative trio Third Reel (...), Swiss reedman Nicolas Masson steps out as a leader with his own touring quartet, which has been together for more than a decade as Parallels ... Masson's music here is deliberate, even consciously slow in its development, because it is a music of discovery first. There are no unnecessary flights of fancy, and the group-think sound serves to underscore the ambiguities in the hearts of Masson's tunes - they are possibilities, not ends in themselves. The music on Travelers is committed, focused, democratic. It uncovers its secrets slowly, but offers the listener a singular experience in discovering and absorbing them".

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