Transcendence, nirvana, enlightenment the point at which every soul in a given space is focused in on the same vibration and all systems become self-perpetuating. It is a sensation that Medeski Martin &Wood have been chasing over the course of their nearly two-decade career. In sports, they call it the zone, reflects keyboardist John Medeski. A classical musician can get there by completely immersing themselves in someone elses music. We get there and we try to bring the listener there with us by improvising Medeski, drummer Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood have made improvisation their language how they communicate with one another and how they communicate with an audience. Their genius for making even the most sophisticated rhythmic and harmonic ideas instantly relatable to their listeners, via long-honed group empathy and individual precision, is balanced by an uncanny knack for imparting the simplest statements with a profound resonance and clarity. In concert they spontaneously shape ideas, each performance marking the start of a journey whose destination is unknown even to them. The band is not about songs, per se, Medeski continues. Its about the feeling that comes out. So we do what we need to do to feed the feeling. Medeski Martin &Wood devised their newest endeavor, The Radiolarian Series, to do just that. While never entirely locked in to the classic music industry cycle (write the material, record the material, then perform the material), it is a set of limitations that they have been subjected to regularly. After fruitful relationships with Grammavision and Blue Note records, Medeski Martin &Wood are now in control of their musics release and distribution with their own Indirecto label. This unprecedented freedom allows them to embark the experiment that is The Radiolarian Series a project that defiantly bucks age-old industry practices in service of artistic liberation...