Mise en Abime

Mise en Abîme is the highly-anticipated follow-up to 2009's Travail, Transformation and Flow, by the Steve Lehman Octet. Described as a "breathtaking accomplishment" by The New York Times, Travail was widely hailed as a groundbreaking synthesis of spectral harmony and jazz improvisation. On Mise en Abîme, Lehman continues to build on his work with spectral harmony - expanding the harmonic palette by incorporating live electronics and a custom-built vibraphone - while at the same time reinforcing his connection to the jazz tradition with three radically re-imagined Bud Powell compositions. The result is an album that solidifies Lehman's status as a visionary composer with powerful new ideas about the future of harmony, rhythm, compositional form, and electro-acoustic improvisation in jazz.