Quote from the insert to this C.D. - \"Martin\'s suggestion for a string quartet CD was made at the end of a gig at St Michael and All Angels in May 2000 where I had been playing with Mark Wastell and Chris Burn. This was just the latest in a line of performances in which I had begun to explore a rather different aesthetic of improvisation. I\'d been working with Mark now and then for a while - indeed he was partly responsible for tempting me out of semi-retirement in the mid-nineties. Mark had an on-going association with Phil Durrant, a player whose work I have increasingly come to admire, so I was eager to include Phil in the group. As it happened, the Swiss viola player Charlotte Hug was present that evening. Charlotte had already been based in London for four months on a scholarship. She had played with Mark Wastell and Phil Durrant in different groups and in a string trio with both of them, but somehow, despite hearing so many intriguing reports, I had thus far not managed to catch her playing. Of course, I then made a point of listening to Charlotte\'s work and became very excited about the project. As with all new groups it was a gamble, but I was more than usually confident about this one, and so (it would seem) were the others. Before the studio session the four of us spent time trying things out together, and immediately there was a unanimity of spirit and aesthetic which I think we all found quite remarkable.\" Attributed to Tony Wren 2001 The CD case is not broken but there are naturally some surface scratches, apart