"Every so often something or someone unexpectedly surfaces which either changes the course of music, art, baseball or literature. Simply put, Gudira is a recording of monumental proportions and implications as the teaming of three modern day innovators have crafted a series of improvisations-compositions which are unlike anything this writer has heard." - Glenn Astarita
"This CD is a collection of beautiful trio improvisations from some of the best in the biz. Barry Guy has composed for orchestras and wailed free with Evan Parker and Marilyn Crispell, Robert Dick has played with John Zorn, in the New Winds collective(with Herb Robertson and Ned Rothenberg) and recorded a tributeto Jimi Hendrix album and multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch has played with 'classical' avant-giants John Cage and Pauline Oliveros. Together, these cats bring together the seemingly disparate worlds of jazz, free imprav and the folk musics of the Middle East and Asia. This is not 'jazz' in the melody/solos/melody sense - this is music that continues the tradition of exploration, similar in essence to the works of Don Cherry, Collin Walcott, Tony Scott, Butch Morris and the Cherry/Walcott/Vasconcelos group Codona. The sounds here shimmer, like an almost-forgotten dream or a lake's surface as it's moved by a gentle breeze. 'Ideareal History' features RRR's Zither as it circles the globe, from the mountains of China to the hills of Kentucky. 'Finnfinnotus' recalls the jazz-influenced trance music of Terry Riley - here, Dick's flute has the guts of jazz, the pure tone of classical music and the warmth of some guy playing flute for himself on some mountain in Nepal. Four stars - let these fellows take you around the world-and inside yourself - in 74 minutes." - Mark Keresman
