Five young musicians working at the frontiers of creative and improvisational music, freely mixing elements from jazz, rock, funk, avant-garde, experimental and world music.

Like a living organism, the music expands and contracts: from the solitude of a solitary note, to a rush of discordant sounds, to a fast meandering of notes, to a chorus of glistening sounds, to the gradual cessation of movement.

This music is not a jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces fit neatly together. It experiences (confronts) the crevasses and voids (sometimes in awe): moments of surprise transcribed into moments of sound. Now.

Manoba (pronounced Man - o' - Bah) — an island of volcanic origin off the coast of New Guinea, rising 5,000 feet above sea level, listed in The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. According to legend, the magnificent birds of paradise roam freely on its highest ground. Known for their astonishingly beautiful plumage and their resounding, raucous sound, it is also said that these birds are creatures that cannot survive in captivity. (re: The Great Birds of Paradise, a novel by Paul Scott, 1962)