Clarinetist Ben Goldberg sometimes gets so out front with his musical vision, it takes years to catch up with him.

The competing tubas heard on the opening seconds of Jason Robinson’s new big project Tiresian Symmetry made me instinctively utter three words: Very Very Circus. You May Also Like: Liberty Ellman – Radiate (2015) Henry Threadgill Zooid – ‘Poof’ (2021) Liberty Ellman – ‘Last Desert’ (2020)