Eden Giat is a member of the circle of musicians around bassist Avishai Cohen and when Giat visits New York City he also collaborates with Omer Avital. Giat is a homebody, and his compositions reflect this, embedded with an enigmatic Middle Eastern aura, they are a reflection of how the globalisation of jazz breaks down into a series of unique encounters where musicians seek to create original music that is both part of the universal language of jazz and an individual expression of local social, cultural and musical identity. It's produced an impressive debut – seldom has the tried and trusted saxophone quartet shape-shifted into such original ways. In expressing the compositional material at hand, from the haunting ‘Crossing the Red Sea’ that opens the album, through pieces such as ‘Nish Didan’ (actually with no solos but maturely realised by the quartet), Giat says the musicians sought to find a sense of oneness with their material – to you and me it means getting inside a song in order to express its potential fully. They succeed, particularly on ‘Two Waves’, the slow song of yearning that concludes the album, a 30-minute debut that leaves you wanting more.