INNERrOUTe

INNERrOUTe: Fourmation

by John Ephland
March 27, 2016

Starting with keyboardist Joe Vincent Tranchina's steady, alarming tone, Fourmation suggests an emergency of some kind. “Consensual Motion" gradually includes the other three members entering the fray, a fray that's loose and free-form, and eventually calming, not to mention a little bit funky. Michael D'Agostino's drum fills combine with Bill McCrossen's probing basslines to form a rhythmic framework for trumpeter Rick Savage to follow suit, his tone softer, more meditative even as it follows a similar probing trajectory.