Baptized in possibility and spirit, Beyond in multi-reedsman Isaiah Collier and percussionist Michael Shekwoaga Ode's interchange with producer Sonny Daze as an exercise in opening a portal through sound into a clearance point through which the immaterial can be grasped just as one may pluck an apple from a tree. Their collaboration is coined I AM as the jazz player's consciousness is meant to overlap and overextend into one another through the consummation of their exchange. Concentrated by tears from the sky and the rotation of sentinal spheres above, Michael's exhaustive drum work and Isaiah's lightning-fast, accelerative outbursts, tape and transform the flush hues of life and the full cast of quotidian sensations as if one were pulling a rainbow through the eye of a needle to mend the tatters of one's soul. If there is a place altogether outside this provincial plain that is knowable to human intelligence, then Isaiah and Michael may have succeeded in prying off the seal to a degree sufficient to glimpse the first tier of its venerated depths.
Come together with Division 81 Records.
