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Both of these two master bassists are used to solo playing, both in the studio and in performance, and they've both done bass duos too. So there's no shortage of experience here. If anything, Barry and Barre sometimes give us just a tad too much: at a whisker under 76 minutes, there's an enormous amount of bass food for thought here, with all aspects of the instruments explored, itemised and expounded in the course on intense, virtuoso dialogue.

Yet the music has a soothing subtext too. for all its formidable and packed structure. The sonority of the bass is never neglected. Guy long ago staked out the most extreme territory for his instrument, but he's also found a splendid medium between songful music and hard-bitten improvised lines, and Phillips has always secured an almost hillbillyish simplicity which peeks through his most complex ideas ...

Like most modern improvisers, they eschew the old patterns of call-and response in favour of a deeper, less signalled interplay which remains as palpable to willing ears but adds fresh levels of surprise ... The best title though is Warrior Spirits. In its driving creativity, this kind of music continues to represent fighting talk. Magnificent.

— Mike Fish (Wire 1991)

Barry Guy and Maya Homburger founded Maya Recordings in 1991 to take care of their desires to document the various projects that occupy their musical lives. So unusually
you will find Jazz and improvised musics alongside baroque masterpieces.

1. mayarecordings.com