Parabola’s essential third album, Electric Parabola, features two new elements - keyboard sage Chris Forbes and the art of plugging in. Bassist Lee Marvin, currently focusing on electric bass, was the catalyst in this shift in voltage. Drummer Tom Cabrera thrives in this alternate universe, buoyed by Chris’ keyboard and Jack DeSalvo’s electric guitar. The music undulates from intensity to ambiance to powerful interplay in a display of the best in electric jazz.

Kinestesia is awareness of the body's movements directly in the proprioceptors of the muscles and joints themselves. Such an awareness is critical for the creation of sound for an accomplished drummer like Tom Cabrera. For this album of fresh, instantaneous tracks Cabrera enlisted his bandmate from so many ensembles, pianist Chris Forbes and his cohort from myriad other musical groups, double-bassist Phil Sirois. Though this was Forbes and Sirois' very first encounter, music making was nearly telepathic. As track 4's titles suggests, this is true sonic Communion.

Each one of my Unseen Rain recordings have featured a side of my improvising personality, from the standards of Film Noir to the wild free jazz of Blood River Shaman. For this latest trio recording I decided to focus on my own compositions. I’ve been writing tunes as well as classical pieces since I was in my late teens. Most of my tunes are either sketches for free improvs or ECM style acoustic jazz.

Chris Forbes' music has enriched the New York jazz and improvising scene for some time, gracing the ensembles and recordings of Jason Hwang and Matt Lavelle, among so many others. He is simultaneously iconoclast and iconodule. His musical world is vast, as is evident on this, his first entirely solo piano album Mountain Ocean Mirror Sky. Each piece is its own realm of beauty and meaning - yet one is astonished to discover that each piece is entirely improvised. These resplendent, fully realized compositions did not exist before Chris sat down to record.