“Pianist Matthew Shipp would be infuriatingly overconfident if he didn't back himself up so well. Beginning in 2000 with *Pastoral Composure*, and moving on through *New Orbit* (see the phrase in the liner notes: "Cosmic Consciousness") and his work with the David S. Ware Quartet on their *Corridors and Parallels*, the man seems to be suggesting he's onto some kind of metaspatial physics that's all”
