The Lost Cathedral A Sound Painting For Quartet, Percussion & Recorded Tape (1995)

"The genesis of this project began with a cistern with a two-million-gallon water tank that had not been used since the 1930s. But the acoustic properties of the cistern fascinated the alto saxophonist, who led five other musicians down the ladder into it to experiment for hours, playing random notes into a recorder over a two-day stretch. He blended the prerecorded material into a concert with arranged material performed by a different group in the Fort Worden Theatre, with the music from each location woven together and occasionally overlapping. The suite has multiple sections within each of the three movements, though it is hard to identify individual sections since there are only three long tracks. This ambitious project falls outside the usual labels for Bud Shank's music, as it hardly fits into any jazz subcategory. But Shank fans ought to search for this now unavailable CD before it becomes too hard to acquire." (Allmusic)