Zakir Hussein, L Shankar and John McLaughlin set a high bar for Indo-jazz fusion with their compelling Shakti project. But now here comes Glasgow-based saxophonist Brian Molley, gorgeous of tone and sparing of note, and his longtime quartet on piano, double bass and drums, with an album recorded in a desert studio in the middle of western Rajasthan, that colourful Indian state with its camels, mirrored wall hangings and pink stone castles. It was Jodphur’s annual Rajasthan International Folk Festival (RIFF), at which BMQ first performed in 2015, which paired the questing Scottish outfit and their penchant for everything from dynamic straight-ahead jazz to traditional Scottish folk to driving Indian ragas with award-winning Sufi singer and (three-string) sarangi player Asin Langa and his ensemble, which, given the latter’s collaborations with composer-producer AR Rahman and Australian singer/guitarist Jeff Lang, make sense.

Journeys, then, is a fine slice of Indo-Scottish jazz, accessible here, experimental there; opener ‘Cottonopilis/Dhologee’ melds influences from the indie Manchester with the drum-driven songs of northern India in ways unified and propulsive. ‘Kama’, a stand-out, is a traditional Indian tune that finds Molley alone on saxophone, vying with Langa’s keening sarangi - and with the khartal, a pair of wooden slats clicked together in rhythm, and one of the oldest percussion instruments in the world.