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Disen Gage is a unique mixture of various genres of instrumental music, including progressive, fusion, world music, psychedelic and improvised spots. Formed in 1999, the duo-guitar quartet (Yuri Alaverdyan and Konstantin Mochalov - guitars, Nikolay Syrtsev - bass and later Eugeniy Kudryashov - drums) gained popularity in intellectual and student's communities. Being busy with their academic career in the Moscow Institute of Bio-Organic Chemistry, the band members decided to stop their musical activity. Using rare chances, they managed to arrange few late-night sessions in 2002 in a studio to record a farewell cassette for their friends and fans (later Yuri has left the band to continue his academic career). To their luck, this material was remastered and released in 2004 by R.A.I.G. as Disen Gage's debut album. It was an exciting CD for many progzines and progfans all over the world, musically compared with King Crimson, Djam Karet…

The seven works on the disc (two each by Harry Partch, John Cage, and Lou Harrison and one by LaMonte Young) are among of the most enjoyable introductory albums to just intonation. Guitarist John Schneider, who arranged several of the pieces on the disc for harp and guitar, is joined by harpist Amy Schulman and, in one work, by percussionist Gene Sterling. Schneider's extensive and highly informative notes guide the reader painlessly through a discussion of tuning theories and the history of the pieces.