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"Now Is features multi-instrumentalists Joe Giardullo and Joe McPhee backed by the rhythm section of Tani Tabbal and Mike Bisio in their second recording as a quartet for Drimala Records. Working in a groove of radical grace that those who have had the fortune of hearing them live know all to well, their music conveys the quietude of dawn, the energy of daylight, and the contemplativeness of night. Giardullo focuses on soprano saxophone, and Joe McPhee interjects on pocket trumpet, flugelhorn, and his own soprano. Balancing Giardullo and McPhee's uncanny communications are Mike Bisio's sweeping bass and Tani Tabbal's impressionist drumming...establishing the compositional tone with rhythms that evoke the humidity of a lagoon at dawn, or the languorous heat of the African desert. As the New York press said about this recording, ""This is music that puts the listener in an earthy, primordial place, registering on the most instinctive level. Prepare to be transported."""