"Active for over a decade, the trio New Windshas carved a distinctive niche in the arena of New Music by exploring the ambiguous territory in-between composition and improvisation while employing the particular tonalities and timbres of wind instruments--coloring the energy and enigma of breathing with flutes, clarinets, saxophones of various sizes. With Potion, however, they undergo a fundamental change; trumpeter Herb Robertson now joins Ned Rothenbergand Robert Dick, bringing a new range of hues and harmonies to the blend and exerting a strong dramatic presence. Potion's multi-dimensional soundpieces give the impression of compressing time and redefining the shape of musical space. New sounds require new forms, as John Cage reminded us, and New Winds sets both into motion, winding melodic lines into skeins of focused interplay, discovering elusive sonorities that float lighter than air. Aeolus would be proud."-Victo