Joseph Jarman & Anthony Braxton, Together Alone (side A)

1974's Together Alone finds Braxton and Jarman at their most impenetrable. Sounds appear and fly past each other, without a recognizable structure or pattern. It's neither pointillistic nor particularly dense, just a flood of steady motion. There are brief dense builds that include crazed vocals and leap out noticeably from the rest of the album. The playing seems great, to the extent that it can be measured in such a piece, and the result does produce a strange sense of beauty. The overtly Afrocentric album cover (which was unfortunately abandoned for the CD reissue) is a powerful image and design.