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Lightning Darkness
   Northwoods Improvisors
   Mike Gilmore (vibes, cheng, percussion)
   Mike Johnston (bass, flutes, percussion)
   Nick Ashton (drums, percussion)
   Ben Bracken (tamboura, percussion)
   Kirk Lucas  (cello, tamboura, bowed banjo)

Their third album (and first on a US label) finds the all-acoustic Michigan based group branching out into a more spiritual direction than their past two. Utilizing percussive and bowed instruments, they blend jazz and Indian music into a boiling soup. Wearing their influences proudly, they bounce from spacious electrical storms ("Black Ice" and "Lightning Darkness") a la AMM and John Cage, to the almost Modern Jazz Quartet-ish "Two Worlds."  The highlight here is a cover of Sun Ra's "God Is More Than Love Could Ever Be."   Clocking in at almost ten minutes, it's quiet intensity builds around Mike Gilmore's shimmering vibe work and the spare percussion laid down by Nick Ashton. At top volume, the song envelopes you in beautiful melodies and sends your spirit astral traveling. "Tariquah" ends the album with a very Eastern feel, with cheng and tamboura weaving hypnotically beneath an achingly beautiful wood flute.  Comes highly recommended.

9 tracks in 61:03 minutes

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