Like slow rockin' blues put through an avant-jazz filter: The electric guitars suggest rock, but the melodies are based on the complexities of jazz, and of course you've got open-ended improv segments too. Tempos stay slow; don't expect Sonny Sharrock. It's got too much blues fire to be called "prog," but then again, you'd be set *on* fire if you played it in a blues club; it's too slow and often too abstract for that. Instrumental; FCC clean.

If you're not into "jazz," go straight for track 9 for some country twang (and country gloom), or to 6 for an outright pretty guitar essay. My faves were 2 and 4.

David Tronzo -- electric slide guitar
Christian Kogel -- electric guitar
J. Anthony Granelli -- electric bass
Jerry Granelli -- drums

1- Peaceful, but with a blaring guitar sound. Gets into slow, slow, glooping improv-fusion.
2- A slow rock stomp
3- Delicate bobbing, rhythmic and small and cute. Gets louder for a friendly folk-rocky vibe
4- Calm, jazzy guitar figure. Whispery/stormy drum solo, then some abstract guitar weirdness.
5- Slow and sad, sometimes with a big emotional sound.
6- Ahhh, floaty and placid. Pretty.
7- A bit proggy, based on a pattering riff. Breaks into open/free improv later.
8- Four minutes of quiet guitar skimming. Then suddenly, a reggae-like, snappy beat, very catchy mon.
9- Downcast Americana rock, quite slow but juicy.
10- An open-aired bluesiness. Slow, disjoint, lots of drum madness. Starts sparse but gets louder and more involved as it goes on. And it's a Mingus cover.
11- A meditiation on drums, mostly brushes.