Deface The Currency: CD BF30 Carlos “Carly” Maldonado and Victor

Carlos “Carly” Maldonado and Victor Pablo Garcia Gaetan

In addition to a core trio of Burniss Travis on bass and Jeremy Dutton on drums

Kicking off what will be an Alice Coltrane year

Pianist Chick Corea makes one of his earliest appearances on record here along with drummer Al Foster

and bass clarinet

Deface The Currency: CD BF30 Carlos “Carly” Maldonado and VictorDeface the Currency is the second collaboration between The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis. Recorded immediately upon return from a joyous European tour, engineer Don Godwin captured the sound of what the forge of 150 shows in a year can do to a band. It is quite simply a huge change. In energy, in writing, in sound. The band has become a unit designed to destroy on stage, and this record is expansive, ambitious, and spontaneous. Full of complex