Throughout Figments, pianist Bill Anschell"s creative, abstract approach takes each song to unexpected places without ever leaving his audience behind. Self-recorded over a series of late nights, after gigs, when Anschell"s "internal supervisor had clocked out." The result is twelve genre-bending, near stream-of-consciousness takes of solo piano covering a mix of jazz standards and pop songs from the 60s and 70s. Highlights include Arlo Guthrie"s protest song Alice"s Restaurant, a meditative take on the Rodgers and Hart standard It Never Entered My Mind, and a prepared-piano version of Joni Mitchell"s Big Yellow Taxi.