The best music makes pictures in your mind, takes you to other places, other times - you can smell them, taste them, places that "You can't get to from here". Whether it's Eastern bazaars, jungles with hidden tigers, planets far, far away or back home at the local jazz club, feet first moves through time and genres. The project is the creation of Phil Beazley, a guitarist and ztarist. Ztar, huh? Check www.starrlabs.com for more info. The music, while in the jazz genre, has a pop sensibility with great musicianship, grooves that rock and swing, hooks that bite, textures you can feel and taste and the personnel includes Chad Wackerman, master drummer (Zappa, Holdsworth). The Journey: Track 1 - Open Both Ends We begin at home, the band launching into a jazz/funk, outta your chair tune. Track 2 - Break in the Traffic Add some machines and speed up the tempo. A romp down the highway with the top down. Track 3 - Dafinda An ethereal night time trip under the star covered sky of Arabia. Track 4 - Club Zambezi What the hip crowd is dancing to in darkest Africa. Track 5 - The Perfection of Fools 70s fusion with a joyful, Weather Report style solo middle section. Track 6 - Ouch Modern, Scofield style funk. Track 7 - Zanzibar Heights What Steely Dan might be playing if they were Moroccan. Track 8 - the chill Two moons rise over the ice covered plains. Track 9 - I Remember Rolf Return to earth and recall the memory of a much loved, departed friend. Most music is assigned to some genre / label these days, and lots of people just stay inside their little favourite areas. Music of real quality though, can jump right out of its pigeonhole and grab you, across genres and prejudices. Give this music a real listen, I know you'll enjoy the journey, and who knows where it will take you?