Julie Campiche's Quartet was an unexpected highlight of the entirely ‘remote’, live-streamed London Jazz Festival of 2020, with some striking visuals making a perfect backdrop to some exotically atmospheric music. While most jazz harpists (and there are more around right now than ever), cling tightly to the legacy of Alice Coltrane, the Swiss-born Julie Campiche has a more challenging, spikier approach.

Her quartet was formed in 2016 and this is their second album following Onkalo in 2020. On You Matter Campiche's harp can sound like a koto or a zither and her meter-switching guitar-like plucked motifs are an interesting twist. A spacey, hauntingly gothic ensemble sound is subtly impregnated with folk music from the far-east, Mediterranean, and ethereal electronic effects give it some of that ambient Nordic jazz effect with Nils Petter Molvaer among her influences. Leo Fumagalli's sax is hard-hitting, coming more from the contemporary rock-inspired post-bop school of Donny McCaslin and Pete Wareham.

There's an additional political dimension, with a call for action on environmental and refugee issues and although it's a purely musical protest for the large part, edited voice samples of Greta Thunberg are heard on the dubby ‘Fridays of Hope’ instructing us to ‘wake up’, ‘change’ and ‘act’, among others. Not wishing to make light of the issues that are rather obliquely raised on the album, it's more a distraction than inspiration.

That quibble aside, this is a notable recording from a distinct new voice.