Rova Saxophone Quartet

2010 release  ** "Following the success of their 2010 collaborative CD with Nels Cline Singers, Rova returned to the classic acoustic quartet format for the first time on CD since 2007. “Planetary” brings the listener to several of Rova’s music worlds and shows that the band, as always, was still refining that “Rova sound,” still pushing the envelope, and still looking for new sound worlds to inhabit and make their own. This also marks Rova’s reconnection with the Russian music scene. The band made two ground-breaking tours to the USSR in 1983 and 1989. Now on Feb 15, 2011, this new CD was released by SoLyd Records, the first Moscow-based recording label to commercially produce CDs from the improvised music universe. (Also made popular Russian bootlegs of The Beatles LPs way back during the USSR years!) Featuring four chamber-jazz works from Steve Adams and two idiosyncratic tour-de-forces by Larry Ochs, Planetary promises to take you to parts of the musical universe you always wanted to hear, but didn’t know to ask about."