CASE No.28: Broken Flight

When did a bird in full flight begin to fall?

"CASE No.28: Broken Flight" dismantles the high-speed swing of "Midnight Bird" and throws its fragments into a volatile maze of odd meters, abrupt modulations, polyrhythms and dissonance.

A flight beginning in 4/4 rapidly loses its course through 7/8, 5/4, 11/8 and 9/8.
The tenor saxophone tears across bar lines, while horn sections collide from opposite sides like rival pursuers. Piano fractures the harmony as bass and drums destabilize the pulse beneath everything.

For a brief moment, straight-ahead swing returns.

But it is only a trap.

Another modulation.
Another rhythmic collapse.
Brass flying in every direction.
A saxophone completely out of control.

Then comes silence-a false ending.

Just when the case appears closed, the band suddenly restarts at even greater velocity.

Is the flight broken?

Or is this what perfect flight sounds like when every rule has disappeared?

CASE No.28: Broken Flight

A precisely calculated loss of control from Imajuku Detective Agency.