This sumptuous double LP is the first release in support of The Steve Reid Foundation, a charity (named after the late drummer and co-ordinated by DJ Gilles Peterson), which offers support for crisis-struck musicians and education initiatives for struggling young talent. Emanative is the nom de guerre of producer Nick Woodmansey (son of ex-Spider From Mars, Woody) who, for this Kit Downes and Lucy Railton project, has augmented his usual house band with a host of major talent from the UK and beyond to reinterpret a clutch of cosmic-jazz classics. The versions on offer vary in their boldness, veering further from the original sources and closer to dancefloor-friendly nu-jazz as the album progresses. In the first half, keyboardist Jessica Lauren offers a respectful rendition of Alice Coltrane's solo organ piece ‘Om Supreme,’ with trippy ripples that tap into the original's blues base; Chicagoan saxophonist Idris Ackamoor, of deep-jazz veterans The Pyramids, unfurls an utterly authentic take on Pharoah Sanders’ ecstatic yowl on a joyful reading of ‘Hum Allah Hum Allah Hum Allah’; while London's Collocutor and Finn Peters deepen Joe Henderson's ‘Fire’ with dubby effects and aetheric flute swirls. Flip to the second disc and things take a more radical turn, with versions of Sun Ra's ‘Rocket Number Nine’ and ‘Love In Outer Space’ riding heavy funk and carnival rhythms; and a deep-house tribute to Albert Ayler's ‘Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe’ that's just crying out to be enjoyed while chemically enhanced at a sunrise beach party.