Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet - In the Air and on the Ground

One can observe the existence of a sort of venous network between Ken Vandermark’s saxophones and clarinets, more like butterflies of day and lava flows, and Ed Wilkerson Jr.’s clarinets and saxophone, more like moths and gravitational waves, which are incredibly resistant to the flow of the music; a brief solar flare, complete with plumes, is sometimes enough... The fireflies, of course, are Jim Baker’s doing. The beetles are Avreeayl Ra. The rhythm section is obviously not just a “section”, it’s a whole: Baker and his coded messages, Ra and her tables of rhythmic conjugations, heavy or light but always intense. Luke Stewart upstream and downstream, in a Thoth-Hermes style. 

Ed Wilkerson, Jr.: tenor saxophone, alto clarinet & Bb clarinets, oud, digeridoo
Ken Vandermark: tenor & baritone saxophone, bass & Bb clarinets
Jim Baker: piano, ARP synthesizer, viola
Luke Stewart: double bass, samples
Avreeayl Ra: drums, percussion