Playful Edge of the Wave marks the debut Ravello Records release of works by composers Robert J. Martin and Neely Bruce. Martin presents a series of 100 short evocations of Hokusai’s woodcuts of Mt. Fuji, each different in its gestures and language, yet all in the same universe. In his Improvisations, Bruce reveals the gentle and mesmerizing side of contemporary non-traditional harmonies. In Homage to Seb, the composer presents an amazingly atonal and pleasingly modern side of J.S. Bach. The collection ends with Martin's stone & feather, an exploration of timbre, lightness, and heaviness.
