Kaktus: Lars Halle (drums), Aaron Meicht (trumpet) and Matt Mitchell (piano). Close to 100 hours of music. Nearly every "rehearsal" has been recorded. The creation of new music as a collective. The members of Kaktus first came into contact during there youth in 1991 at a summer music school. A long and thorough collaboration. The music of thrives on a well-established level of trust and conversational understanding in an artistic sense. Over the years the trio has developed a cohesive musical vocabulary that emphasizes the intricasies of the interaction of sounds. Acoustic, extended, dynamic.
		Kaktus SHARING THE DRY Lars Halle - drums Aaron Meicht - trumpet Matt Mitchell - piano recorded & mixed by George Whittam of ElDorado Recording Services in West Chester, PA 25 Aug 2001 5 tracks - 47:25 SCR 53406 (2002)
	1. Xenakis 8:00 2. Puissant 7:16 3. Fergadem 5:59 4. Eschatological Tensions 15:02 5. Thus of Love (a) Miseria (is) Alas Mud 11:08
		Kaktus ADENIUM (v.2) Lars Halle - drums Aaron Meicht - trumpet Matt Mitchell - piano recorded by George Whittam of ElDorado Recording Services in Philadelphia, PA 13 May 2000; mixed by George Whittam of ElDorado Recording Services in West Chester, PA 3 June 2000 4 tracks - 53:77 SCR 53404 (2000)
	1. obesum: mombassa 4:29 2. somalense 25:35 3. arabicum 10:21 4. somalense crispum 13:52
		Kaktus ADENIUM (v.1) Lars Halle - drums Aaron Meicht - trumpet Matt Mitchell - piano recorded by George Whittam of ElDorado Recording Services in Philadelphia, PA 13 May 2000; mixed by George Whittam of ElDorado Recording Services in West Chester, PA 3 June 2000 4 tracks - 60:47 SCR 53403 (2000)
	1. oleifolium 5:33 2. swazicum 11:21 3. socotranum 16:06 4. obesum 27:47