The Object series is Locust Music's shot at documenting worldwide currents in creative improvisation and composition but as you may expect by now, we're doing it with a twist. For each release in this ongoing series, we've worked with the musicians to arrive at audio-visual ties between sounds and objects that may indicate a visual tie to the music. In this case, a bowling ball and a Brill-o pad grace the cover. Object 1 teams together trumpeter Axel Dorner, an internationally celebrated German instrumentalist of prodigious technique and deep sensitivity, with one of the hardest working musicians and organizers in Chicago, Cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm (The Brotzmann Tentet, The Lightbox Orchestra). Together they produce a series of 5 remarkable pieces that brew and percolate into a deeply tactical tableau of raw yet calculated /creative sound.