This is the fourth album recorded by the Berlin based Carsten Daerr Trio, the second to be reviewed in the pages of Jazzwise, and was first released in 2010. Daerr is an original pianist, who seems to have worked out his own meta-language of jazz; his is music of complex impulses, thoughtful but edgy lyricism (‘Phantomsz’), shifting tempos (‘Full Aperture’) and gamelan-like repetitions. Daerr likes to dip into the freedom principle without surrendering to total abstraction, preferring to centre his ideas within form and structure. With Eric Schaefer on drums, who moves easily between the implicit (‘Intuition’) and implied (the intro to ‘Tombs’) and Oliver Potratz on bass, both of whom join with Daerr as equal voices, this is an impressively original group who project their music with great clarity, using dynamic contrast to project their edgy, yet strangely alluring, idealism.