Transmissions (Alan Silva and Oluyemi Thomas album)

Silva caresses his strings, sliding, stretching, even whining, and, like Thomas, embraces unconventional ways of playing.

"[2] The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings noted that some of the pieces are "simple, almost sweetly beatific," while most of the interest "centres around Silva's often brilliant work.

The title to the disc is an apt one and captures the feeling of this team of tone scientists beaming out sonic signals that transcend the conventional continuums of space and time.

Take this meeting between Alan Silva and... Oluyemi Thomas—an artifact so beautifully recorded, so spiritually executed, so evocative of deep fountains of knowledge that it seizes the attention from practically the first seconds of play.

From there, Silva and Thomas meld their collective experience into 50 minutes of pure intuition, resulting in an unfathomable tone world of bass, reeds and peripherals guaranteed to open the doors to cultural perception.