New York's Rubin Museum Of Art was the site for this sublime string summit, the resumption of an intuitive, spiritual connection reaching back to the tail of the 70s and Bang's appearance on Parker's Through Acceptance Of The Mystery Peace. The duo begin by summoning snaking, blues-driven string drones – echoing the nu-chamber scenarios of David S Ware's marvellous Threads, but finding more unlikely antecedents in the avant-garde hillbilly epics of Henry Flynt. Burrowing beneath that Appalachian crust, descending to subterranean grottos where melody makes way for fertile abstraction, Bang and Parker pay tribute to the former's mentor, violinist Leroy Jenkins, with roughhouse staccato jabs alternating with searing country-fiddle vistas. Picking cues from their surrounds, Bang then inaugurates a wild Asiatic pluck piece from his fingerboard, recalling the clipped phrasings of his Vietnam sets. Parker gets busy with the bamboo, his shakuhachi flute voicing appeasing tones to impish mountain spirits, grey ancestral ghosts circling unseen about the Himalayan enclosures of the Rubin itself. Campaign of supernatural seduction won, the pair close with Parker's composition ‘Buddha's Joy’, bass bopping hooky thump as Bang arcos folk-strewn hoedowns to a celebratory soul balm.