Opening credits/resolve

Is this the soundtrack to Chinatown gone awry? Was that a Fred Astaire quote? “Heaven, I’m in heaven…” Nope. Just the opening track of Lung Tree, the latest deep exploration into timbre and improvisation by extended Fender Rhodes pioneer Eric Glick Rieman in collaboration with trumpeter Lesli Dalaba and Stuart Dempster, here playing everything but trumpet. The tune, appropriately titled “Opening credits/resolve,” establishes a narrative-sensitive approach as themes or, more appropriately, sonic situations eventually windup being self-referential as the album unfolds. The track listing even suggests a specific timeline which begins after midnight—12:41 a.m. to be precise—with its conclusion taking place at 6:11 a.m. In between there’s a vast landscape of aural territory covered by the trio, perfectly complementing the dream-state most of us experience during such hours of the night.

—RN