'Gowanus Sessions II' was seven years in the planning. Thollem, Nels Cline, and William Parker convened at Peter Karl Studios in Brooklyn on January 3rd, 2012 and recorded two complete albums. The first was 'Gowanus Sessions I', released in April of that year. 'Gowanus Sessions II' was put aside to eventually complete the five-album palindromic cycle of trio albums Nels and Thollem ambitiously set out to realize. The albums in between include 'Radical Empathy' with Michael Wimberly, 'Molecular Affinity' with Pauline Oliveros, and 'Reality and 'Other Imaginary Places' with Michael Wimberly.