"David Rothenberg and Douglas Quin. This is improvisation not over chord changes, but sound changes, a new kind of jazz that is built around the powerful soundscapes of a living earth. An acclaimed woodwind innovator joins with one of the masters of soundscape recording and composing to create an "earth jazz" by finding inspiration not only in the sounds of nature, but also in its ways of being, of emerging, of communing with itself... Also features three spoken-word tales, cultural memories of the eternal dance of life and death."

To order "Before the War" and for more information about other soundscape recordings, please visit the Earth Ear website and on-line catalog.