What happens when two versatile but virtually unknown Texas musicians blithely contact a respected alumnus of the legendary progressive rock band King Crimson and suggest recording an album together?

Well, if you’re Michael Clay and Ernie Myers of the highly regarded but obscure Dallas art-rock band Hands, and the Crim in question is drummer/producer/composer Ian Wallace, the answer is...Fission Trip.

Indeed, like a Brothers Grimm story told in 7/4 time, keyboardist Clay and guitarist/vocalist Myers sufficiently impressed Wallace with their compositions, chops and a collective and goofy sense of humor - and in a longshot payoff of lottery-winner proportions, he invited them to Nashville to meet, jam and compare their respective material.

It worked so well that the wry Scotsman had KC bandmate and woodwind brujo Mel Collins fly in from England and persuaded fellow Nashvillean and current KC frontman/twang bar-pyrotechnician Adrian Belew to add some solo guitar twists and turns to the mix. Local session bassist John Billings, so fluid he was handpicked by Victor Wooten to hold down bass chores in Wooten’s estimable family band, rounded out the musicians.