Gunn adds mellotron, theremin and shortwave playing to his custom-made guitar/Chapman Stick hybrid instruments, but his trio's partners deserve equal credit for creating this musical thicket. "The Glove" opens with an eerie motif by Gunn and Tony Geballe "who creates a beautiful racket, mostly on electric guitars) before Bob Muller enters with the Eastern dumbek hand-drum and then a stomping drumkit groove reminiscent of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham on "When the Levee Breakes." Muller's additional percussives "tabla, bandir, darbouka, bodhran, gamelan drum, rik, metals and shakers), combined with the guitarists' esoteria, mean you won't very often know exactly what you're hearing.

Muller mainly sticks to the drums in the muscular "Hard Winds Redux," but uses his arsenal of toys throughout the serpentining 'Rune Song: The Origin of Water." Gunn plays growling, basslike tones intermittently, otherwise dueling and dueting with Geballe in space grooves akin to David Torn's brilliant 1995 CD, Tripping over God. "Untune the Sky" likewise trips you up with its odd-timed rhythms. God only knows what's making the sitar-and-elephant sounds on "Sozzle," and the trio fuses chops and a shellgame of tempo with humor on "Gate of Dreams."

"Brief Encounter" features Geballe's acoustic playing and Muller's hand-drumming before the beautiful "Tehlikeli Madde" closes this largely improvised (most of the nine tunes were co-written by all three musicians) yet highly disciplined masterpiece.