Experimental San Francisco Bay Area record label Edgetone Records states, this band "reflects the influences which make up their collective interest in storytelling, exploring expanded borders, and discovery." No doubt, this red hot ensemble doesn't stay content following a one-dimensional musical path, as they branch out on a recurring basis via these fluid and manifold works.

The sextet features the dual bass attack of Max Judelson and Safa Shokari. In effect, the ensemble abides by a flexible but firmly grounded manifesto from a standpoint of branching out and not regurgitating tried and true formulas. Yet their flexibility emanates from Amazonian-like tribal treatments, modern jazz arrangements, bop, free bop and intermittent strolls into the free and fearless peripheries of jazz.

With converging horns and multicolored song-forms, the frontline operates as a continual reenergizing machine with rubato movements, brazen soloing spots and blitzing breakouts. The title track "Rogue Star" is dedicated to acclaimed jazz saxophonist