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Some excellent noise/electronics on here, or is it a next-level jazz CD? First track "Drowned" hits hard in multiple possible genres, in fact it sounds like it could be a club hit if DJ'd just right, with looped fragmented horn-chart phantasia flashing over a low-in-the-mix skittering D&B drumtrack, used as a bed for great straight-up unadorned jazz trumpet soloing, a little spacey but very tough and traditional, like a hard-bopping Bill Dixon. Graham in fact solos boldly on the first three tracks, so clearly this noise/electronics dude is really a jazz musician -- he goes by his given name after all. Or is this jazz musician really a noise/electronics dude? Track 4 "Heaven" is full-on harsh noise (no trumpet), and track 5 "We Won't Stop," which is almost the title track, is a good 10 minutes of totally excellent creep zone material, sonically right in that Wolf Eyes zone but ultimately with a different kind of imagery (sing-song traffic-conversation electronics late in the game). In fact, I'm pretty sure the trumpet solos don't reappear after those first three tracks, and I miss 'em... it's okay though, the way I keep playing "Drowned" over and over... also looks like he has a duo CD coming out with percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani, which sounds real promising.