Maybe it was an Astral Spirits reunion that kicked
off the Colin Fisher Quartet’s sessions for “Living Midnight,” or maybe it was
just the collaborative (or incestuous) relationship that these crazy jazz cats
have among themselves. Regardless, Colin Fisher, Daniel Carter, Brandon Lopez,
and Marc Edwards all ended up in the same room, and fortunately most of them
brought their instruments. (I wasn’t there – I can’t vouch for everybody.) The
result is a whip-smart collection of moonlit magic and ESP-aided (again,
probably, since I wasn’t there) interplay that blew air into the lungs of the
night and sent it on its adventurous way. This is that story.
Not one that I’m going to tell, that’s for sure! I
gotta step back and let the players take center stage here, because this
“Living Midnight” is a charmed foray into voodoo nocturnes and spellbound
serenades. Stretching the quartet’s abilities over two lengthy sides, Fisher
leads his cohorts like a shaman at a séance, each tune bursting to life and
growing, expanding, evolving as the veil between the (astral) spirit world and
ours becomes ever thinner, till we’re whirling through forests with ghosts. The
inky blackness of the wee hours is
pierced by the glow of intense energy that flows like magma through the veins
of Fisher, Carter, Lopez, and Edwards – heat and movement enliven everything
around them.
Behold, the “Living Midnight”!
--Ryan
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