A continuous work in four sections – "Drift," "Contact," "Gallop," "Assemblage" – for winds, synthesizers, many types of guitars and percussion. "Drift" is a lovely, meditative piece with slowly changing drones on a synthesizer which are added to by other instruments playing sustained tones or soft percussion, while a muted bass guitar plays a quasi-random staccato line. The second section, "Contact," a kind of interlude, features synthesizer alone with slow de-tuning beats and additional waveforms.
Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble is one of the venerable jazz groups of Boston. Together since 1987, the band is rooted in musical partnerships that date back to 1971. Although the group has been self-issueing cassettes and one CD over the years (a number of which have been reveiwed in major music magazines),"Watch Out!" is their first commercially released recording, and their most varied and accessible effort to date.