A kinetic, avant percussionist and poet, Hooker is one of NY"s most important band leaders, having fronted groups that included David Murray and David S. Ware. Ranaldo leads the improv supergroup Text Of Light, whose fluid membership includes Hooker, Christian Marclay, Tim Barnes, and Mission Of Burma"s Roger Miller (of course, he"s also co-founder of the indefatigably experimental Sonic Youth). "The Celestial Answer" contains rays of white guitar noise penetrating clouds of analog synth; molten drumming blasts across free-form poetics. A simple cold-fusion of intuitive interaction and boundless sonic freedom. A blindingly brilliant, elemental force.