Five years on, Mark Turner returns to the studio with his pianoless quartet to record the follow up to the hugely impressive Return from the Stars and see how much further they can collectively take the music forward.
As with the earlier recording, Turner once again draws his influence from his love of science fiction with the Patternmaster novel by Octavia E. Butler published in 1976, and which in the distant future humans are sub-divided with the dominant Patternists ruled by a powerful telepath known as the Patternmaster.
With a similar fascination with science fiction, Turner likens Wayne Shorter to the Pattermaster of Butler’s novel to the extent that the title track is a cleverly disguised contrafact of…

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