Esa Helasvuo has been a presence on the more experimental fringes of the Finnish jazz scene since the 1960s. His classic 1973 album, Think Tank Funk, was a deeply ‘out’ collision of chamber music and jagged, proggy electric improv, but these solo piano improvisations settle into a much more meditative space. It’s no surprise that Helasvuo cites Keith Jarrett as a major influence: pieces like ‘To Feel You Is To Love You’ and ‘Intimacy’ unfold softly with a tender, balladic logic, while ‘Improwise’ engenders a sense of patient exploration, with Helasvuo hanging on each fading note-cluster, listening to find out what the moment will next suggest. For the most part, Helasvuo’s playing has a lightness – a tentativeness – that makes some of the pieces seem almost a little too fragile but, on the title track, you can hear him become fully immersed in an idea: a mysterious, microtonal ramble that gathers some of the same enigmatic momentum that characterises Terry Riley’s The Harp of New Albion.