-Phil Freeman, AP (Alternative Press), April 2000.
"Young heavyweight modern jazz saxophonist/improviser/free-thinker Briggan Krauss
offers the willing listener a maniacal digital scan or electronic portrait of a
creative mind on the loose with this new releaseÉFor the uninitiated, Krauss possesses
one of the astute intellects modern music as he often propels his technical and artistic
abilities to the limits of perception. Descending To End transcends even the most
outlandishly surreal electronic outings this writer has heard in recent years."
-Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz, April 2000.
"I'm not normally one to rave, but this Briggan Krauss thing is something special.
In fact, it's gigantic. Powerful. Uncompromising. An apocalyptic document for the
end of an era and the birth of a new one. Krauss likes to use visual metaphors to
describe his music. Listening to his new disc, that's not hard to understand.
Little balls of fire pass through a distorted lunar landscape skirting howling
animals and swirling windstorms. It's not easy listening, and not for the weak of heart.
Is it jazz as we know it? Hard to tell, though that's clearly where Krauss's origins are.
Could it be a link to the jazz of the future? Most definitely YES."
-Nils Jacobson, All About Jazz, April 2000.