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Drummer Burghard Rausch is key to making this band one of the most solid of the improvising teams of this moment. They are often described as a not corny Grateful Dead, which is unfair to both bands, but it gives you something. “A Quiet Walk” is a treasure, a middle ground between a half dozen impulses, it opens with a fantastic grinding and humming sound produced by something electronic and then wanders into a net of slow echoes and ambulatory chords. After it seeps into another churchy organ section, the guitars pop up for a frantic little jig. People mock the excesses of the time, but the sense that anything could happen after anything else was real and created a feeling that isn’t found quite like this again.