This CD is the result of the first meeting of Thomas Buckner (voice), Joelle Leandre (bass) and Nicole Mitchell (flute) at New York's Vision Festival in 2012. As Stuart Broomer writes in his liner notes, "Flowing Stream occupies that primal and illuminating musical ground that is most useful, where both our identity springs and where our hearing becomes most acute, where sound, consciousness and survival are invisibly entwined. It is the improvisation of the human community itself."