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Going beyond my normal areas of interest and experience, I was listening yesterday to this 1998 disc (with Gary Thomas, bass guitarist Matthew Garrison, keyboardist Otmaro Ruiz, percussionist Victor Williams, and Dennis Chambers) and enjoying it a good deal when I got to one track "Fallen Angels" that included a series of rapid-fire exchanges between two soloists -- one of them obviously the leader, and the other...? It sounds, in fact, almost like McLaughlin is playing exchanges with himself -- so similar is the thinking and the sound of the two (if there are indeed two) instruments -- but it seemed like it would be both unlikely to imitate the feel of two players exchanging ideas if that wasn't the case and also rather pointless. So if it is two players, does anyone know who the second one might be? All I could think of was Ruiz, with his keyboard adjusted so that it sounded very close to the sound of JM's guitar, but if so kudos to Ruiz for coming up with some quite virtuosic quick-witted stuff.