This is a maximalist, internationalist, panfaith record, stuffing all 79 minutes of CD time with music, and stretching attention spans till they snap. Nick Woodmansey is the son of ‘Woody’ Woodmansey, Bowie's Spiders from Mars drummer, and his Emanative collective's ambitions would surely have gained the Thin White Duke's blessing. Their fourth album is spiritual jazz in the broadest sense of both words, with guests as diverse as Manchester's Nat Birchall, Fela Kuti's Dele Sosimi and the Cecil Taylor-schooled Idris Ackamoor and his Pyramids on hand to push the genre in disparate directions. ‘Heaven's Mirror’ is an early endurance test, its synth's typewriter-bell ting and heavy bass beat repetitive like concentration-shredding dance music, not mantric elevation. Brevity never becomes a virtue, but the accumulation of strong voices soon does. The percussive raindrop patter of Woodmansey's balafon solo at the start of ‘Iyaami’ morphs into an Afro-beat shuffle, and Sosimi's croon to the maternal spirit. On ‘Spice Route Suite’, a Birchall sax solo splinters into dub space, where it recalls the echoing isolation of The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’, before his return with an existentialist loner's street-corner blues, like Sinatra adrift in the tropics. Thick layers of Indian sounds accompany the prayer-cycle ‘Sandhyavandanam’, while ‘Egosystem (Solar Noon)’ has a sultry Ethio-jazz shimmer. If the specific strength of particular traditions (the matriarchal Yoruba religion referred to by ‘Iyaami’, for instance) are muffled by Woodmansey's own generalised spirituality, his open-door policy to transcendent music creates a utopian soundscape.