New York trumpeter Joe Moffett (Earth Tongues) in a solo album of absolutely impressive technique and intensely personal playing, at times using amplifiers and computer applications to generate unique sonic environments for the horn or playing beautifully lyrical tone, timbres, grunts and spits; an album of profound, introspective inner dialog.
"Joe Moffett (of Earth Tongues) takes "trumpet, amp, and applications" and creates noise-scapes that throb, gyrate, and squeal with suffocating intensity."-The Brooklyn Rail
"Joe Moffett approaches his solo work with an ear toward how silence and inaction affect those things that are sounded and made present. Utilizing the trumpet in non-traditional ways, and often deconstructing it, he is interested in creating an inner monologue for the instrument that would not normally be heard. The listener is invited to enter uncertain ground where forms appear and disappear, and swaths of sound arrive and dissipate in unpredictable ways."-Carpe Diem