Tapscott and Winds encounters one of improvised music’s greatest minds embarking into introspective and restrained territory, his piano lines carving their way across the LP’s two sides via intoxicating melodic structures that would produce an almost meditative effect, were it not for the bristling tension that bubbles below each combination of notes. Into this tapestry of tonal, rhythmic, structural and intellectual complexity, Hart and Roberts intervene with brilliant responses, building upon years of collaboration and mutual respect between themselves and their leader, that culminates as a quite discourse - channeling numerous threads of African American music - with one of the most strikingly individual pianists of the 20th Century.

Beautiful and creatively immersive from start to finish, Tapscott and Winds holds countless revelations for his fans who have thus far been only exposed to his work within the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, unfurling an entirely new dimension from his hands. Never before issued on any format, Nimbus West issues this brilliant statement as an all-analog vinyl cut, mastered from the original 1/4” master tapes recorded in 1983, housed in a tip-on sleeve, complete with an insert containing liner notes by Mark Weber. They’ve only pressed 1000 copies of this wonder, so move fast. It’s not going to sit around for long.