" data-original-title="" title="">Daniel Carter certainly has not. And Telepathic Mysteries Vol. 2 may just be Carter's key witness. For more often than not, the rhizome-like symbiotic crusade that the album embarks upon is a music that is something more, something else other than another open-ended gathering of conversational saints in a loft in a studio somewhere in lower Manhattan.

Telepathic Mysteries Vol. 2 holds a viable, symphonic grandness that sustains well beyond first, second and third listening. Conducted by the inexhaustible Carter, such loosely choreographed suites, chorales and tone studies as "Freedom Maze Sighway," "Mayaland," "Under Full Space Arrest," and "Restive-au-rant," challenge any concerto or etude that readily comes to mind.

All the music here continues Carter's great artistic goal—to maintain human balance and connection—with his most trusted band of confidantes, namely clarinetist