Dutch trio of free improv cellist, jazz pianist and Senegalese singer follow the success of their debut CD 'Down Deep' with a new offering, also recorded with one microphone as they further explore their unique sound.

Just when you think that Fraanje and Reijseger have settled into a New Age groove, Sylla enters with his rough-edged voice, inherited in Senegal from his father, who would sing at the Mosque at 530 am. The group first played together in 2007 but Sylla and Reijseger have been playing duos together since the 1990s. We'll also hear two tracks from James McMurtry's brilliant new album 'Complicated Game' - a song in the voice of one whose attendance at a wedding brings back strong memories of an old love and one in the voice of an Army Veteran who returns to the devastation of his post-blizzard South Dakota farm. And his classic white trash travel epic 'Choctaw Bingo' from a previous album.

Secret Steel Lucky Oceans APRA/AMCOS Head Records HEAD 060 http://www.headrecords.com Lucky Oceans 'Secret Steel' 40 second excerpt (Austral comp and perf: minor key pedal steel guitar with double bass, drums and electric guitar [Dave Brewer]

2308 CD Cut 1 Perhaps Harmen Fraanje/Mola Sylla Pub Not Spec Winter and Winter 910 218-2 http://www.reijsegerfraanjesylla.com (Available in Australia through http://www.birdland.com.au/ Reijseger/Fraanje/Sylla Count Till Zen 4:05 (Ernst plays interesting patterns on his plucked cello, with Mole Syllas vocals about how people leave their houses at sunrise, not missing out on a single opportunity to come home with empty hands in the evening, with Herman Fraanjes pretty piano, all recorded to one mic)

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2312 CD Cut 23 Crystal Palace XXIII Ernst Reijseger Winter and Winter GEMA Winter and Winter 910 214-2 In Australia, through Birdland: http://www.birdland.com.au worldwide: http://www.winterandwinter.com Ernst Reijseger Crystal Palace 1:04 (virtuosic avante garde plucking of Cello from album of solo improvisations at Jerry Zeniuks art exhibition)

2314 CD Cut 7, Ana Music And Lyrics Composed By Mola Sylla Pub Not Spec Winter & Winter 910 197-2 In Australia, through Birdland: http://www.birdland.com.au worldwide: http://www.winterandwinter.com Ernst Reijseger, Harmen Fraanje And Mola Sylla Down Deep 8:47 Poignant song, beautifully sung and played. Its Senegalese author Mola Sylla is the singer; he also plays the thumb piano. Harmen Fraanje is the very lyrical pianist. Cellist Ernst Reijseger plays incredible pizzicato, without being flashy about it. Syllas song adopts the persona of a lonely-hearted man; he is lovingly-imploringly addressing the wife who has abandoned him.

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2323 CD Cut 6 Debenti Harmen Fraanje/Traditional Pub Not Spec Winter and Winter 910 218-2 http://www.reijsegerfraanjesylla.com (Available in Australia through http://www.birdland.com.au/ Reijseger/Fraanje/Sylla Count Till Zen 5:52 (Harmens piano, Ernsts plucked cello and Molas percussion and eventually, voice in traditional homage to the prophet Mohammed)

2331 CD Cut 2 You Got To Me James McMurtry Kobalt Music http://www.jamesmcmurtry.com James McMurtry Complicated Game 5:22 (James sings of being at a wedding in New York City where he remembers a love that didnt last)

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