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“A taut work in which composition and improvisation engage almost violently at times, the music winning.” -Stuart Broomer, Point of Departure

“Craig Pedersen’s trumpet...suggests cinematic desolation and a creeping dread.” -Guy Oddy, The Arts Desk

"Should you be without any information and listening to this music, you could easily believe this is some electro-acoustic music; maybe of objects pushed round on a carpet, but then heavily amplified; very soft in volume but very powerful at the same time." -Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly (writing about Sound of the Mountain's amplified clarinet and trumpet)

" An astringent tea for the ears." - Philip Coombs (Free Jazz Blog)

"It’s consistently playful, imaginative work that’s somehow true to both the emotional directness of country music and the oblique abstraction of current improvisation, just not at the same time. - Stuart Broomer (The WholeNote)

"I hear in it something Robert Wyatt-ish" - François Couture (Monsieur Delire)

"...reminds this listener of the halcyon days of the 1970s when the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Julius Hemphill and Henry Threadgill first entered my consciousness. " - Richard B. Kamins (Step Tempest)

“Perfect and much enjoyed, even if a bit tragic” – Massimo Corvi, Greece

“great show at the musideum! love the tunes and the tones.” – Dave Clark (Woodshed Orchestra), Toronto

“I was glad to get and hear your group again. I like the CD very much, it is living in my car stereo just now. The Ghosts tune really grows on me. Keep on swingin’, or whatever you want to call it!” David Fraser, Ottawa

“As for your performance… facemelter! What a great show!” – Aaron Sennitt, Guelph ON

"myself and a group of music faithful had our brains exploded tonight at The Spill by the Craig Pedersen quartet. these are four pros giving you a live evolution of jazz from traditionalism to free form fuckery and back again in a spiral, and you should not miss it. oh, and if you think you don't "get" jazz, just show up and listen. you will get it. promise." - Karol Orzechowski - Peterborough