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| 1. | The Hunt - mp3 sample |
| 2. | Should I Do |
| 3. | Folly Cove |
| 4. | The Throes |
| 5. | Questions - mp3 sample |
| 6. | Opal |
| 7. | Soundtrack to Romance - mp3 sample |
Actionspeak is drummer / composer Tomas Fujiwara's debut as a leader. The Hook Up is a two-year old quintet featuring Mary Halvorson, Brian Settles, Jonathan Finlayson and Danton Boller. Featured here are seven Fujiwara originals influenced by such diverse inspirations as Wayne Shorter, Talib Kweli, AZ, Haruki Murakami, and Meshell Ndegeocello.
An "accomplished debut," wrote Nate Chinen in the The New York Times, "its aesthetic points toward Wayne Shorter, particularly his writing for the Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s: sleek, enigmatic post-bop, more suggestive than demonstrative. "