Jeremy Drake, Stephen Flinn, Chris Heenan ~ Team Up ~ 2004
Reify Recordings RE005.
 
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1 	In A Space Of Tactile Familiarity 	5:53
2 	Defamiliarizing The Table 	12:33
3 	Nearby Objects Leading Others To Recede 	8:41
4 	A Certain Distance Between Individuals 	9:30
5 	Inclusion Of Fragments From The Real World 	2:36
6 	The Oscillation Of Arc & Circle 	14:37
7 	The Things We Find There Are The Things We Reach For (An Everyday World Always Grows Impatient) 	4:37

Jeremy Drake: amplified acoustic guitar
Chris Heenan: alto saxophone, bass & contrabass clarinets
Stephen Flinn: drums, percussion

Team Up provides an opportunity to focus in on the work of Drake (who's credited on "amplified acoustic guitar" but spends a lot of time using a bow - one might be excused for thinking he's playing a viola at times), Heenan and percussionist Flinn. In contrast to the nervous twitches of the opening "In a space of tactile familiarity", which in feel looks over its shoulder to earlier models of improvised music (Flinn's scattery chattery percussion extends the Paul Lovens / Roger Turner axis impressively), "Defamiliarizing the table" begins with an ominous rash of amp buzz from Drake and unpitched breath effects from Heenan, a vocabulary that belongs to more recent developments in improv. "Nearby objects leading others to recede" is equally slowmoving, though more concerned with pitch. The album throughout aims to steer a course between the opposite aesthetic extremes of high speed gabbiness and near-static micro-improv (several thousand miles away a similar schizophrenia pervades the music of Norway's No Spaghetti collective), which testifies impressively to the musicians' breadth of knowledge but leaves the listener unsure as to where precisely to situate the musicians. - paristransatlantic.com