All is change chez Kurt Rosenwinkel, aka this jazz generation's Pat Metheny whose ‘music is the sound of the future’ (© the Chicago Tribune, quoted at the head of Rosenwinkel's own Twitter account). In the first place, his new project, which has been brewing for the past 10 years, is being released on his own label, Heartcore Records (named for his 2003 album co-produced with Q-Tip), in conjunction with Avishai Cohen's Razdaz. Second, in a somewhat unpredictable swerve, it's distinctly Brazilian in flavour. One key contributor was sourced by Rosenwinkel while he was serving as chair of the judging panel at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2015, the young Brazilian guitarist Pedro Martins. Martins doesn't actually play guitar here (according to the credits anyway), but he has a turn at pretty much everything else: drums, keyboards and vocals. (There's a lot of singing, though much of it is of the background, atmospheric-wash variety.) But of course we've come to expect restless, perpetual change from Rosenwinkel, so perhaps these shifts actually represent a kind of business-as-usual, and the signature inwardness of his sound – the dense, winding compositions, the long, complex melodic and harmonic wefts and weaves – remains very much intact. There are 11 tracks, all Rosenwinkel originals, and the overall effect is incantatorily hypnotic – to the point where you almost don't notice when a big-name guest like Eric Clapton makes a contribution (on ‘Little Dream’).