All Time Present

All Time Present: Good Vibrations/No Expectations

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 2001

The New York City-based “Evolving Ear” record label gets out of the gate in a flurry with this ambitious new release by the three guitar, two drummer/percussionist aggregation known as “All Time Present”. On, Good Vibrations/No Expectations the quintet performs within an unclassifiable climate, teeming with abstracts, surreal dialogue, happenstance and curiously interesting interplay amid untitled yet numerically identified tracks.

The overall tone of this effort is fabricated upon spontaneous interaction and spurious invention, whereas percussionists David Gould and Toshi ...