This is a generally quiet and calm album, though no less interesting than Carrothers' previous releases from the same label. Whereas you might expect his unaccompanied recordings to be fairly introspective, that's less common these days from a trio, but of course the pianist has been working off and on with Gress and Pallemaerts for several years, though not simultaneously. His harmonic bent, or bent harmony, is applied to a programme consisting of originals apart from a ‘Siciliano’ by J.S. Bach but, surprisingly, that blends in well, while his own ‘Trees’ bears a passing resemblance to Charlie Haden's ‘Silence’. The undoubted passion behind the playing remains fairly muted until the three-part ‘Scottish Suite’, previously performed in its title-land but not hitherto recorded – despite its subtitles (‘Rebellion’, ‘Oppression’ and ‘Rebirth’) there's little here that's outwardly expressionist, except maybe for the opening bagpipe-like drone. To find out how it's done on an acoustic piano, you need to hear the album.