Cataclysmic Commentary

Cataclysmic Commentary: Audience Participation

by Troy Dostert
November 8, 2018

Tenor saxophonist Ben Cohen and pianist Eli Wallace represent the current generation of adventurous improvising artists, although their prior releases to date have taken very different approaches to their craft. Over the last couple years Wallace has released records with percussionist Rob Pumpelly under the name of Dialectical Imagination--The Angel and the Brute Sing Songs of Rapture (Atma Nadi, 2017) and The Angel and the Brute Sing Songs of Wrath (Atma Nadi, 2018)--both of which used composition as a vehicle ...