Saxophonist Trevor Watts first gained renown in the British free improvisation scene as a key member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble during the 1960s and '70s, and he moved from acoustic free jazz to a unique form of electric creative music in his group Amalgam during the latter decade -- but during the '80s to the beginning of the new millennium Watts devoted most of his energies as a bandleader to his various Moiré Music projects, which melded jazz with multi-layered African rhythms and counterpoint. The ensemble performing on Live at the Athens Concert Hall is one of the last incarnations of these projects; the group's precursors included the ten-piece Moire Music formed in 1982 and the subsequent Moire Music Trio and seven-piece Moire Music Drum Orchestra. Five out of six tracks here were recorded in February 1998 at the Concert Hall in Athens, Greece, and feature Watts on alto and soprano saxophone, Scottish electric bassist Colin McKenzie, London drummer Marc Parnell, and percussionists Ali Iaazane from the Gnawa Berber tradition of Morocco and Nana Tsiboe from Ghana. The eighth and final track, "Mrs. Robinson," was recorded in Beijing in November 1999 and includes Watts, McKenzie, and Iaazane together with drummer Greg Leppard and percussionists Paapa J Mensah from Ghana and Roberto Pia from Colombia.

1		Seamless
2		Tribute to Don Cherry
3		Gentle Love [Version 2]
4		Indian Hills
5		Yatra Groove
6		Mrs. Robinson

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