This is, as Tim Rutherford-Johnson says, an exceptional disc, as bewitching as it is original. Worthington's double bass speaks not only in lumbering, thunderous tones but also in high, pale registers of piercing expressivity. I'll have a report shortly on Populist's first vinyl release, in which the trombonist Matt Barbier plays works of Nicholas Deyoe and Clint McCallum.
