In this regard Higgins reveals a side until now obscured, a cocktail mixed from Delta waters, godly praises, and love songs. The tools at the duo’s disposal speak of itinerant natures, of traveling minds absorbing local melodies like sponges. We might also know our past and future selves, a map of this and other lifetimes. Through its window we might see fields aflame, ices melting, suns and moons weeping. Together, its eight titled suites form a masterpiece in the most literal sense: a piece-a fragment-of mastery, a flicker of the eternity that nourished its becoming. And for the listener? A two-disc, thirtyfold undoing of expectations that is its own begotten magic. For Higgins, its path is Islam for Lloyd, Vedanta. More than a coming together, it is unencumbered unity, testimony to a higher power…. A man brother-in-charms Charles Lloyd once described as having the “dance of life.” A soul with whom, in ensemble contexts, the saxophonist forged a relationship so deep it begged to be loosed, unhindered in the week of playing, documenting, and spiritualizing that manifested as Which Way is East. Produced by Dorothy Darr and Charles Lloydīilly Higgins. Recorded January 2001, Montecito, California Charles Lloyd tenor and alto saxophones, bass, alto and C flutes, piano, taragato, Tibetan oboe, percussion, maracas, voiceīilly Higgins drums, percussion, guitar, guimbri, Syrian “one string,” various Senegalese and Guinean hand drums, Indian hand drum, Juno’s wood box, voice
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