I’d assume Satchmo was one hell of a zen-calm yet lively jazz-wizard roaming the Americas and Europe like a madman on the horn through the 30s and 40s making myths in all the world’s clandestine clubs and dark alleyways, where spirit infused music spilled into the streets like smiles and wine. If I were to try to express who Josh Saul is to me and what he embodies as a mycologist, I'd have to say it’s a feeling similar to what one gets from soaking in the very early ear-candy jazz recordings, all crackle, pop and fuzz of the man himself, Satchmo. There is something about musicians getting into mycology; there is a mastery over the complexities of theory that requires much determination and deep study: experimentation and analysis on constant repetition. But after the mastery erupts a sort of Jazz in motion...and to me what Josh has done with Play Of Sunlight embodies the jazz of mycology. When you can live free-form in the chaos of a spore to store operation you can certainly attain this level of myco-jazz-wizardry, but I think it’s rare...rare enough to quote the late great Hunter S. Thompson, "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."