Cosmic Transitions is an album inspired by the cosmic energy of Mercury in retrograde. From the downbeat, with a literal tolling of the bell, until the final note that finds Collier improvising, forcing the limits of his soprano saxophone, Cosmic Transitions is like the moments after an afternoon rainstorm. What Collier describes as the survival process, of living through the matrix, is a sound that disturbs the grounds of our imagination. Over five movements, the suite can be heard as a single statement: The blues give life to ballads, which give life to bebop, which are merely expressions of free modes of expression.
- A1 Invocation
- A2 I. Forgiveness ♌︎
- B II. Humility ♏︎
- C1 III. Understanding ♒︎
- C2 IV. Truth & Guidance ♎︎
- D V. Mercury's Retrograde ♓︎
