Hailing from Birmingham and Bristol respectively, the keyboardist Adam Parry-Davies and guitarist-programmer Patrick Case went through a long, rigorous process of writing, cutting and pasting the tunes here previous to inviting a handful of in-demand soloists from New York and Bristol to strut their stuff over the top. This gives the recording a jazz clubland feel to some extent although it covers various bases with the writing pair cooking up a few strong hooks and cosmic ambience while engaging with hip hop, drum ‘n’ bass through to reggae-pop and retro latin-jazz fusion. There perhaps could be more of Parry-Davies’ edgy Sun Ra-ish distorted Rhodes interventions, but both sax and trumpet soloists are as vigorous as they are slick, with New Yorkers James Carter and trumpeter Mike Rodriguez both demonstrating their class. But that’s the story of the first half rather than the second, which tends to drift into less structured, mostly chill-out jams that go nowhere fast. There are hints of Glasper’s pretty harmonies and Herbie-funk in the mix, but the closing improvised piano-sax duets are not quite convincing enough.