Lost as it may be in the bottomless pit of early millennial recordings, Taborn's Light Made Lighter is one of the most original piano trio records of the last 15 years or so. This is the follow-up and seems as if it has been a long time coming. But one should note that continuity is provided by the presence of Gerald Cleaver, the drummer featured on the aforesaid album and co-leader with Taborn and William Parker in collective group Farmers By Nature. On his recent solo disc, Avenging Angel, Taborn showed just how comprehensive is his vision of the piano as a textural canvas, and the abundance of uncommon, hard-to-define timbres is also a major attraction here. For example, a piece such as ‘Silver Ghost’ wears its name well for the translucent, spectral quality of its central motif, a juddering tremolo line that is the epitome of the stark iciness that runs through most of the set. On first listening, it might be tempting to call this Satie-ist but Taborn generates much greater momentum than France's great gymnopedist. His pieces have both a rhythmic muscularity and harmonic unpredictability that stride into many different areas without sounding contrived. The intensely Arabic, Gnawa-like traction of ‘Beat The Ground’ is a particular thrill, as is the carousel-like motion of ‘Speak The Name’, where the counterpoint is teased into life as a series of fleet lines of varying lengths that spin into jumpy concentric circles. The result is a machine-like presence amid the stretch and suppleness of the players, the feeling of a metronome that has a de-programming mind of its own. Not for nothing do Taborn's sideman credits include Tim Berne and Roscoe Mitchell, but his lionisation as a solo artist has been tardy. If the world has open ears then Chants should change this situation.