Intense and inventive, and almost baroque in its capacity for surprise, this is an excellent example of the power of improvised music that’s only enhanced by the use of electronics and unorthodox instruments.

…nuanced improvisation that often heads for the highlands before returning to the fold. There aren’t many folks out there who can make improvisation as accessible as Romus and McDonas, and these two albums are perfect examples.

Cecil Taylor, Don Pullen, Borah Bergman. In a bigger space we’d explain how they differ from American-born, Prague-based pianist Thollem McDonas (or why he also reminds us of George Winston). In what’s available here, we’ll just anoint him a likeminded keyboard pummeller, a guy who likes to splash and splatter gobs of sound and sweep you up in his energy. He dug the way his last Bohemian National Home gig, a solo show, went so much that he put it out as a record. This time he’s back with the simpatico saxophonist Rent Romus and percussionist (and found-object player) Jon Brumit, who are incendiary together on the recent release Bloom on Edgetone records.