2001 brought us the Java Quartet Album Dark Garden, a collection of tunes penned by the rhythm section - Michael Galeazzi and Mike Quigley and it deals with that strange phenomenon of memory. Whether it is of childhood, friends, or the innocence of youth, "we are at once trying to remember what it was and at the same time dealing with those memories that remain."

There is a definite undercurrent, a sense of loss that permeates the album. Not a billowing tirade of self-pity, just a notion of what has been left behind. Improvised music is an apt setting for the mysterious notion of memory, where the subconscious is free to surface and play with the now.

The Java Quartet takes a stroll, of sorts, down memory lane with "Dark Garden" for as Michael says, "We are all a product of or past" We hope you enjoy the Journey.

THE JAVA QUARTET are actually one of the most well recorded bands in Australian jazz. Which you will discern is no bad thing when listening to their latest effort, DARK GARDEN (EMI / ABC) an album (sic) that really is redolent of those quiet, mysterious places in the memory and in the heart.

Pensive without being maudlin, brooding, masculine and sensual all at the same time, there's elegance in spades on this baby,

but so is there a preponderance of welcome directness.

– Drum Media - Blow