This trio of British forward-thinkers has already made several albums' worth of live gig recordings available (much of it for next to nothing as downloads through Corey Mwamba's website) but this is their first studio CD. Even so, the music still feels incredibly alive – something Mwamba refers to as ‘open, living music’. It's 100 per cent improvised yet sounds almost nothing like standard notions of either improv or free-jazz – largely due to the powerful sense of pulsing groove that runs through it. Dave Kane's rich and sonorous bass acts as a melodic engine, generating tuneful hooks that open out to reveal beatific depth, onto which Joshua Blackmore clamps fractured drum breaks that suggest a kind of abstract funk. Even the jerkiest, click-clack grooves rush ahead with magnificent momentum. Mwamba picks his way through it all with a keen intelligence, offering a questioning, impertinent commentary – and largely eschewing anything as obvious as the role of leader. This is the sound of three minds working together in a utopian zone way beyond the individual ego – and making something quite beautiful in the process.