Rejuvenation

Rejuvenation is the first studio recording from Flow Trio, a powerful tenor sax/bass/drums trio in the tradition of 60s free jazz with an up-to-the-minute sense of universal awareness. Flow Trio consists of players well-known from many and varied groups and recordings: Belogenis in his retro-avant band Prima Materia, Downs anchoring Other Dimensions in Music, Morris as guitarist and leader but also as bassist with, among others, Matthew Shipp and Ivo Perelman. Their combined energies create innovative and contemporary improvisation informed by everything from Albert Ayler to Oliver Messiaen. "[Louie Belogenis] tracks a direct lineage dating back to free jazz forefathers like Coltrane and Ayler, illustrating the cyclic replenishing nature of the tradition." - Derek Taylor "[Joe Morris is] one of the most profound improvisers at work in the U.S." - Will Montgomery, The Wire If there is a way—and there most certainly is—to feel music with all the senses, then Flow Trio…show how completely spectacular this can feel when it all comes together on a record such as Rejuvenation. The group, all seriously schooled in the poetics of sound, have literally mastered the way to fully explore the sound dynamic of saxophone, bass and drum, vertically- -for harmonic depth—and horizontally—to toy with the melodic elasticity. And if the central idea of Rejuvenation is to drain the senses' touchstones in music that are obvious, predictable and comfortably numbing, and refill them with an unexpected and refreshing, resonant and wholesome new sound, then it succeeds not only conceptually, but also in every real sense as well. – Raul D'Gama Rose, All About Jazz