Dave Willey makes his home in the American West, but his most noteworthy music draws from influences elsewhere. A skilled multi-instrumentalist and composer, he flies in currents below the radar of mainstream music listeners, despite being one of relatively few "avant" artists whose music is uncompromising, challenging, and adventurous but also engaging and tuneful, certainly accessible to anyone even slightly open to unusual hybrid forms that can't be categorized in neat little stylistic boxes. He's a fine improviser, manifests a world-spanning stylistic eclecticism, and the ...