If Hiromi and Sonicwonder’s 2023 London Jazz Festival Barbican concert felt a bit pedestrian (compared to the first half’s astounding performance of the pianist’s ‘Silver Lining Suite’ with an all-star string quartet), then their headline show at the following summer’s Love Supreme jazz festival is where the penny dropped. The 4,000-strong crowd – with many women in the audience smiling up at Hiromi’s wild virtuoso performance – saw the adrenalised pianist thump her piano with joyful abandon. Thus, Out There, the group’s second full album, clearly benefits from a year’s worth of hard touring and sees their technique-busting riffs hit a whole new level.

Bass icon Anthony Jackson was an early mentor and bandmate, yet Hiromi’s connection with Hadrien Feraud is special. Their telepathic partnership has turbo charged her music, and it’s evident from the off with ‘XYZ’, a reworking of the first song on her 2003 debut album, Another Mind. This mosh-pit version features a relentless bass line that’s passed around the band, Hiromi’s solo ending in a two-fisted hammering of the keys. Her zany humour, love of computer game soundtracks and wild energy may be the love-hate factor here, with the hyperactive ‘Yes, Raman!’ as likely to entertain some as it is to irritate others.

Yet, there is a subtle, highly musical side to the music too, with Hiromi’s rhapsodic neo-classical and bebop flourishes underpinned by Coy and Feraud’s sublime interplay, O’Farrill’s trumpet adding avant garde FX flourishes and Cuban jazz flair. Out There is the sound of a band in full flow, but just like fighting that end-of-level computer game boss, you may need a lie down after.