Ingrid Laubrock is a musician of rare sensitivity and imagination (this is me talking, by the way, not the press release). Originally from Germany, the saxophonist lived in the UK for a period – working with the F-IRE collective – before moving to her current home, New York. Along the way, she's worked with the likes of Anthony Braxton, Kenny Wheeler, Evan Parker and Dave Douglas, but her new octet brings together a younger generation of English and American musicians including Sleepthief bandmates Tom Rainey and Liam Noble, and her Anti-House colleague Mary Halvorson. And it's superb. Although one number, ‘Matrix’, is so rigorously rhythmic it apparently required a conductor, Laubrock's compositions are more typically looser affairs, riddled with improvisatory holes. They unfurl slowly, all tentative and textural; but gradually, the various parts, from accordion to distorted guitar and even tuned water glasses, coalesce to form a really quite wonderful whole.