Occasional errata aside, listeners already wise to these three will find this set a welcome extension of their modest, but hopefully soon expanding studio ledger. Those just becoming acquainted are in for an even bigger treat. Sound on Survival taps the venerable energy source that most fans of free jazz find irresistible.

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Eneidi's awesome alto chops are once more very much in evidence - I like to think his former teacher Jimmy Lyons would be proud of his exuberant post-bop yelps...

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Sound on Survival Live is definitely not for the MTV set; the trio's approach is to let things develop over the long haul. Not in the modal sense: the group often turns direction on a dime. But what they do is play on until their ideas are exhausted. Not beyond that point, but right up to it. The result is a rewarding, if slightly draining, listen. Think of it as a workout and enjoy the burn.

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... slowly simmering and building its way to an explosive sprint to the finish.

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thanks a bunch for the great CD. i will play the dickens out of it here at radio station kwva, eugene, oregon: the seat of anarchy in the pacfic northwest! keep us in mind when you produce/create the out stuff. thanks for the great music. honored to play it

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...It's intensely rhythmic music - even Eneidi treats the saxophone as almost a pulse generator, the source of abruptly fired-off impulses with a surprisingly regular rhythm (though he uses that regularity to create syncopation effects too).

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These songs explode with life and vibrant ideas. As the liners say. ". . . more often than not . . . the songs come to an arbitrated (not arbitrary) ending." Exactly. All tangents aside, these men know what they're doing and, more importantly, where they're going.

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Love the new 'Sound on Survival: Live' disc! Congrats one and all.

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...A brand new label (Henceforth Records) sent us this splendid CD...Ellis on bass, Eneidi doing alto sax & Valsamis on drums...This is some of the most fresh & original improv jazz I've heard in (quite) a while, & I get an image of hearing these folks for many years to come! Some GREAT high-energy music that adventuresome souls everywhere will find totally enchanting. I give this one a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, as well as the "PICK" of this issue for "best improvised jazz"!

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Bonnie Wright's new label, Henceforth Records is off to a good start with a couple of thrilling releases...What's interesting here is all three players are truly interested in the texture of the sounds. How will the sounds appear as Gottschalk scrapes a mean pattern across her violin, while accordionist Völker weaves waves of chaotic noise, all the while Jacquemyn pounds his bass into submission with brutal force.

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