LA-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Georgia Anne Muldrow is an original. Under her own name she makes left-field contemporary soul. Her 2018 album, Overload, released on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder label earned her a Grammy nomination and made numerous end of year lists. Mama, You Can Bet! is her third release with solo jazz project Jyoti (‘divine light’), a name that was given to her by Alice Coltrane. It's wild, free and brilliantly creative, perhaps her most experimental release to date. Aside from a feature from her close friend Lakecia Benjamin, who adds a rangy alto solo to ‘Ra's Noise (Thukumbado)’, Muldrow plays, sings, records and produces everything herself. Across 15 short tracks she experiments with waltzing vibes melodies, lopsided beats, wobbly synths, clacking hand drums, shamanistic chants, gorgeous melancholic songs, wild scat, trippy electronics and howling guitars. She also includes two remixes of Mingus tunes from her ‘Muldrow Meets Mingus’ project, commissioned by Jason Moran at the Kennedy Centre in 2017. ‘Fabus Foo Geemix’ is anchored by a heavy slap bass groove, while ‘Bemoanable Lady Geemix’ sets Mingus's love-sick melody to hissing hip hop drums. Mama, You Can Bet! is like a sonic sketchbook, a torrent of ideas – most of them very cool indeed. Sometimes it's disorientating. Tracks cut off at random; one seems to end with a full minute of silence. That could be an error in the stream I was sent, but it could just be Muldrow doing her thing. It's hard to be sure and I like that a lot.