5 tracks. Running time 73:21 Tom Heasley, last encountered by this reviewer in Desert Triptych, and musician Toss Panos have worked together to create an unusual album that defies categorisation. Passages is the only one I can recall reviewing where the tuba is the lead instrument. Loops, effects, drums, and percussion are the additional elements in the mix. A plaintive subdued fanfare by the tuba opens up the album in “Different Worlds” and is quickly followed by crashing rippling cymbals. Across the twenty four minutes of this piece we hear a variety of styles and some peculiar effects which at times are vaguely alien. The low sonorous tones of the tuba can be quite affecting due to the forlorn refrains. The thing with experimental or avant-garde styles is that for a short time there can be a pleasing section which is suddenly disturbed by all manner of strange goings on. Strangeness starts off the piece “98% Pure” where odd animalistic noises and plaintive cries lead into a passage of chittering drums and percussion punctuated by the tuba as if we're hearing calls from a giant yet gentle animal. For a while this is interesting but then it dissolves into seemingly random playing of the instruments. I can't suggest that Passages is a work most people would enjoy. It has the quirky experimental feel of avant-garde which I imagine will mainly have appeal to serious connoisseurs of instrumental music. The main thing I took away from this album is a view that the tuba could be used to excellent effect on work of more mainstream ambience.