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The album title certainly ain't apt, as the contents of
C'Mon are completely reclined in nature. All four T&C members are key figures on the Chicago improvised music scene, though these pieces have their interlocking parts well worked-out in advance. The quartet uses their actively acoustic line-up to make music of a startlingly luminescent quality. Their use of shimmering chimes and huffing bass clarinet calls to mind the minimalist repetitions of Steve Reich, but unshackled from the mathematics of his set phase patterns, more organic in nature.
Most of the tunes feature Jim Dorling's bass clarinet meshing closely with Ben Vida's cornet, but there are guitar figures repeating against chimes and bells for the gently creeping motion of "Going To Kamakura", while "I'm Appealing" has the strings making harp-like cascades in an accelerated web-weave. There's a deliberate ensemble feel, an absence of individual flash, with each member working on behalf of the music's whole, its ultimate effect. The results are highly therapeutic, these delicate tones imbued with a magical sense of calm. This disc's surely set to be one of the year's ambient contenders. --Martin Longley
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