The density of Yelena Eckemoff’s illustrations on the covers and within the ten-page booklet of Scenes From The Dark Ages corresponds to the meticulous attention to detail she applies to composing and arranging. Nevertheless, her work on various keyboards nurtures a palpable sense of liberation amongst her and her accompanists as they play together during “Village Tavern.” In particular, the contrast is delicious between the woman’s electric piano and Trilok Gurtu’s percussion. This self-produced, approximately one-hundred-minute narrative turns cinematic almost immediately in fifteen tracks, particularly during Riccardo Bertuzzi’s electric guitar interludes on “Spell-Bound Fortress.” Yet nowhere does the work turn pretentious, which may be Eckemoff and company’s most significant achievement.