Mesmeric, experimental new work and the follow-up to 2021’s meditative Space 1.8 LP by the Brussels-born, London-based pedal harpist who mixes jazz and electronica and with extraordinary, and unconventional results. Saxophone, piano, trumpets and other instruments come to the fore in album is composed of 10 tracks titled Continuum, changing tempre, tempo and mood joined by outstanding fellow musicians Ezra Collective saxophonist James Mollison, former Black Midi drummer Morgan Simpson, Sheila Maurice-Grey, Nubya Garcia, Lyle Barton, Natcyet Wakili and Dwayne Kilvington, with occasional deeply embedded wordless vocals. A diversity of greats from J Dilla to Frederick Delius, Cocteau Twins, Cannonball Adderley and Alice Coltrane feel like influences. From the slow build and gentle sax and gentle blips and hoots of Track 1, the colourful piano lilts of 2 with its woozy bird calls and trumpet, the particularly soothing more ambient piano-rippling 3 in which she also creates a booming low note, it’s all an evolving world of moods and wriggling reeds especially on 5. An accelerating tonal change synth groove epitomises 6, while 7 has a particular appealing, slightly crunchy, beepy electronica. 8 is a slow sort of funk, while 10 brings the album to a fast arpeggio and glissando crashing, euphoric climax moving into gentle piano. Creative, beautifully crafted composition. Out on Warp Records.
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