Like past gatherings of tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman, pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist William Parker, and drummer Bobby Kapp, inscribed to memory on the highly touted Ineffable Joy (2019) and Heptagon (2017), Synesthesia erupts into consciousness with a punch and flurry.
Feverish by design, “First Color Heard” stays true to its title and to the heart of each participant. Rambling, rumbling, reaching for the stars, Perelman exhorts his fellow travelers, and “First Color Heard” fills the airspace with a noise beyond beauty, ending its nine minutes in Shipp’s restful hands. “Phosphene,” an impression of light that occurs without light entering the eye, resulting from excitation of neurons in the visual system, breaks the mold and off…

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