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Trance Mission is a quartet featuring two-thirds of Lights in a Fat City, Stephen Kent and Kenneth Newby, instigators of a mutant hybrid of upbeat ethnic folk. Largely eschewing the cosmic predilections of Lights in a Fat City, Kent and Newby, along with John Loose and Beth Custer, whip up a scintillating, pan-cultural stew of exotic charm. Performing on a huge assortment of horns, hand-percussion, and didjeridus, and integrating the odd sample here and there, Trance Mission fuses jazz-inspired improvisational leanings to a range of genres. The foursome is equally adept at setting up a solid groove or adjunct melody as it is in putting forth a multi-colored symphony of ethnic fusion, blending in elements of North American Indian music, Middle-Eastern raga, Australian aboriginal funk, and Asian mysticism. Adventurous, unusual, and more revealing with each subsequent listening-do you need any other reason to commence exploration?

A San Francisco based quartet with Beth Custer (clarinets), Stephen Kent (digeridoos), John Loose (percussion) and Kenneth Newby (atmospherics, winds, percussion). An energetic mix of global styles that draws on African and Balinese rhythms, earthy yet virtuosic, strongly melodic, yet other-worldly.

Recorded at Mobius Music, San Francisco, California in December 1992.

01 - Bo Didgeley   
02 - Folk Song   
03 - Tunnels   
04 - Rig   
05 - Tjilpi II See All 2   
06 - Vee Dee Vu   
07 - Kif   
08 - Red Man   
09 - Icaro