Lichens is a 2007 studio recording of the first meeting of a trio of world class improvisers. Italian saxophonist Gianni Gebbia leads the charge with subtlety and taste creating a new palette for bassist Damon Smith and Flying Luttenbachers drummer Weasel Walter to paint concise musical pictures with. 68 minutes of beautiful, charged improvisation ranging from high-speed harmolodic jazz to pure noise, obtuse modernism to calm introversion oin this highly diverse and entertaining release. This is focused music and it moves quickly and wastes nothing. This is a limited edition CD-R packaged in jewel case with full color cover, tray card and resealable polybag. Bruce Lee Gallanter from Downtown Music Gallery said: "'Lichens' is a particularly strong improvised trio effort with two of Bay Area's best - Damon Smith and Weasel Walter, two restless musicians who seem to play with just about everyone, both are close with guitar wiz Henry Kaiser. What I've always loved about Gianni is that he fits so well into a variety of diverse situations from subtle to extreme. The opening track here is explosive with Gianni play some twisted Zorn-like sax weirdness along with Damon's powerful bowed bass and Weasel's focused percussion. The sound and production is most impressive and studio-like. Damon Smith runs the great Balance Point Acoustics label and remains one of the best (kept secrets) bassists on the West Coast. The same goes for Weasel Walter another giant of the drums who often doesn't get the recognition he rightly deserves. Due to some of Weasel's more extreme playing and projects, you wouldn't think that he is also a gifted improvising percussionist at a more subtle level. You would be wrong in that assumption since he is perfectly matched for the quieter moments of this discs as well. "Morphology" sounds like a great Zornish free/jazz trio excursion with all three players perfectly matched and swirling around one another with a magical connection."