SLIFT ILION ('Loser Edition') STEVIE WONDER and pianist Gil Evans had THE BLACK DOG and pianist Gil Evans had already collaborated with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead and made his own debut album Gil Evans & Ten for Prestige when he signed with World Pacific Records in 1958 and made the first of two albums for the label: New Bottle Old Wine with featured soloist Cannonball Adderley GeeW and JD73’s ElecTrio because you don’t need a 12 sided die and a copy of The Odyssey to get what SLIFT are dishing out on ILION SLIFT unleash the fury with walls of guitar and multi part song structures that make you feel as if you’re being taken on a true journey—from the pure oblivion of ILION’s title track and the stretched out abandon of centerpiece “Weavers’ Weft” to the intense climax of the 12 and a half minute epic “The Story That Has Never Been Told