Corrie Dick could be seen with his Chaos Collective co-founders Laura Jurd and Elliot Galvin this year, helping take Jurd’s evolution of electric Miles to thrilling new heights. Jurd and Dick’s Blue-Eyed Hawk singer Alice Zawadski are among the starrier names on his reflective, varied debut as leader. Alongside a strong, often Celtic melodic sense, Dick’s playing with Moroccan drummers in a fire-lit square inspired the percussion, zouk guitar and chants-meet- scat of ‘Annamarrakech’, while ‘King William Walk’ heads south for township brass. Zawadski is gently heartbreaking on ‘What Has Become of Albert’, and a smoky, surreal torch singer on the carnivalesque tumble and roll of ‘Six Impossible Things’. The cymbals are like surf-spray on the elegiac tribute to Dick’s grandparents’ home, ‘Farewell Modhachaidh’, and this album by sophisticated London players is at its best when it also feels on the edge of things, out in the highlands and islands. Like the closing ‘Don’t Cry’, for instance, where tolling piano and Jurd’s bugle-like blues are washed away by atmospheric rustles, creaks, lapping waves, and at last a clock’s ticks. The passing of time, people and places provide this album’s emotion.