After three acoustic albums, Arun Ghosh's first ‘electric’ album might appear an abrupt change of musical direction. In fact, since 2003, he has written the music to accompany over 50 major theatre and dance productions including The London Eye Mystery (Unicorn Theatre, London), Tell Tales (Purcell Room, Southbank), Antigone, The Tempest and Volpone (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Indian Ink (Salisbury Playhouse) and And Did Those Feet… (Bolton Octagon) that all involved electronic instrumentation, so it was just a matter of time before he revealed this aspect of his personality. On but where are you really from? his musical antennae are tuned to a diverse range of musical inputs, not least popular and Indian culture. Because of the skip function on mp3 players, he's aware that pop has to make its impact straight away, or be skipped, and then drive the message home with a good hook. Harmonic complexity is out and rhythmic intensity is in. Yet, having established such a strong musical personality on Northern Namaste (2008), Primal Odyssey (2011) and A South Asian Suite (2013) in an acoustic setting, there is no mistaking that same strong personality at work in an electronic environment (‘Dagger Dance’, ‘Lohri’, ‘Smash Through the Gates of Thought’). Yes, there's tape loops, dub bass and drum machines, but it's still Arun Ghosh music and it's no bad thing that he wants his music to connect with the dancefloor, after all, it reminds us this was the original function of jazz during its first 40 or so years. The energy pieces are balanced by more thoughtful pieces such as the reflective ‘How Do You Keep Your Love’, ‘Love and Laugh, Love and Cry’ and ‘In Peace’, while ‘Natarajan’ taps into Indo-jazz history, based on raga malkauns, which underpinned Don Cherry's classic Brown Rice. A lot of ground is covered on this album and who knows, maybe ‘Dagger Dance’ will end up getting played by Asian DJs at weddings, as the composer secretly hopes.